Core @ 20 in '21!
On 22 January 2021, Core celebrated the 20 th anniversary of our launch.
To celebrate we held an online event on Thursday 21 January, during which John Sturrock was in conversation with leading mediator and good friend of Core, Liz Rivers. A recording of this event can be found here.
The anniversary celebrations included The Core Challenge, a competition for young professionals on the theme: “ What one change would make a real difference and increase the use of mediation in civil and commercial cases in Scotland?”...
We are delighted to announce the outcome of The Core Challenge.
The standard of the entries was uniformly high, which made making a decision more challenging. However, for an entry which was a bit different, persuasively written, contained a compelling personal story and in particular focused on an important area, namely fear of failure among those advising clients, The Core @ 20 Prize has been awarded to Sarah-Jane Macdonald of Gillespie Macandrew LLP.
The five runners up will each receive a copy of Dr Anna Howard’s recently published and important book on EU Cross-Border Commercial Mediation. They include Mitchell Abbott (CMS), Megan Anderson (Anderson Strathern), Lorna MacFarlane (Dentons) and Amy Roberts (CMS) and Hikari Saito (PhD student at the University of Aberdeen).
The Core Challenge Event:
Tuesday 18 May
Core is hosting an event in association with Young Mediators on Tuesday 18 May at 1730 to showcase each of the entries and to provide a forum for the entries to be discussed with the audience (with a view to them to be synthesised into a single overall presentation to policy-makers). This event is open to all but with a limited number of places to enable really good discussion. Register here.
John Sturrock commented:
“ It’s inspiring to see the next generation of professionals really engaging with mediation in such thoughtful and sophisticated ways. It’s been a privilege to read the ideas in each of these excellent entries. I hope policy-makers will take notice of the proposals. And I am delighted that Young Mediators are co-hosting the event in May as the next generation has so much to contribute.” |
