The opening address to the Johannesburg the Global Pound Conference Series was delivered by Judge Edwin Cameron, of the Constitutional Court of South Africa. Read what he had to say on “Shaping the Future of Dispute Resolution & Improving Access to Justice”.

We are delighted to share with you the results of the Johannesburg Global Pound Conference.

In a fascinating presentation which traverses Mandela's life from the early 1940's when he arrived in Johannesburg as a young lawyer to his release from an apartheid prison in 1990, John Brand identifies many pertinent lessons in negotiation from Mandela's style of negotiation.

Join us at the Johannesburg Global Pound Conference to hear more about what Judges can do by way of judicial activism and case management to enhance access to justice in South Africa. It is not well known, but Brassey AJ in the South Gauteng High Court trial of Brownlee v Brownlee in Johannesburg (case number 2008/25274) has already imposed a costs sanction as a direct consequence of failure to mediate, comparable to what happens in other jurisdictions.

John Brand made a fascinating presentation at the Mining Indaba 2017 on the multi-stakeholder faciliation he has been managing concerning occupational lung disease in South Africa.

CEDR has published a wide range of model documents to facilitate the use of ADR.