Charlie Irvine
Articles:The article is a response to Dame Hazel Genn’s 2008 Hamlyn Lecture, in which she characterized mediators as having ‘no interest in justice and fairness.’ The article argues that mediators’ own rhetoric has allowed this caricature to develop and suggests that, in practice, mediators are no longer indifferent to norms like justice and fairness, if they ever were. Drawing on the work of Ellen Waldman and Julie MacFarlane this article examines the role of social norms and ethical codes in mediation practice, and calls on mediators to examine their values. 1 Comment  |
Charlie Irvine is a Visiting Senior Lecturer at University Centre Stratford and Research Consultant at University of Strathclyde Law School, where his research focuses on mediation and culture. A qualified lawyer, Charlie has been a mediator since 1993, conducting more than two hundred mediations in family, workplace, additional support for learning, mental health and professional complaints. He has developed programmes of mediation training for private and public sector organisations including universities, Relate and the Salvation Army, and has recently delivered Scotland’s first course in judicial mediation.
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