Grant Jones LLM, New York attorney, solicitor, a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants and of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, is a visiting Nottingham University Law School professor, who practises as both a solicitor and a chartered accountant, in London and Gibraltar.

Peter Pextonis a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and an active member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners [STEP]. Founder chairman of the Jersey Branch and immediate past chairman of Verein STEP (Switzerland), he now chairs the Membership Committee of STEP Worldwide. Specialising in offshore trusts, estates and tax planning, Peter practised as a partner in the Jersey firm of Ernst and Young, then as a director of Royal Bank of Canada Trustees Limited and more recently as a director of Ganten Group in Liechtenstein.

Contents

Foreword by Geoffrey A Shindler

A.            Introduction to Dispute Resolution

1       Arbitration of Trust and Fiduciary Disputes

1.1          Introduction

1.2          The Advantages and Disadvantages of Trust Arbitration

1.3          The Conceptual Difficulty

1.4          Human Rights Issues

1.5          Trust Arbitration Cases

1.6          Jurisdictions with Statutorily Authorised Trust Arbitration Clauses

1.7          Laws Governing an Arbitration and their Impact upon Trust Situations

1.8          Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (New York1958) (the ‘New York Convention’)

1.9          Convention on the Jurisdiction and the Enforcement of Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters of 30th October 2007 (the ‘Euro Convention’)

1.10        Drafting Arbitration Clauses

1.11        Specific Trust Arbitration Clauses

1.12        Summary

2       Benefits of Mediation for Trust and Fiduciary Disputes

2.1          Avoiding Costs Orders

2.2          Perspectives

2.3          Mediation in a Trust Specific Context

3       The Mediation Process

3.1          Contractual Requirement to Mediate

3.2          Mediation Chronology

3.3          Trust Specific Issues

3.4          The Settlement Agreement

Appendix 1:  Agreement for Appointment of the Mediator

Appendix 2:  Settlement Agreement

4       The Role of Professional Advisors

4.1          Lawyer’s Role during the Mediation Proper

4.2          Lawyer’s Role before the Mediation

4.3          The Lawyer’s Role during the Mediation

4.4          The Role of Non-lawyer Experts within the Mediation Process

5       Tools and Techniques for Mediation

5.1          BATNA/WATNA

5.2          Interest-Based Mediation (Integrative Mediation)

5.3          Doubt and Dissonance Techniques

5.4          Hypothesis or Testing Mediation Techniques

6       Avoiding Disputes

6.1          Good Commercial Practice

6.2          Dispute Management

6.3          Non-contest Clauses

6.4          Duty to Negotiate

6.5          Negotiation

6.6          Facilitation and Facilitated Negotiation

6.7          Facilitation Quintessentially

6.8          Negotiation Compared to Mediation

7       Cross-Border Aspects and Issues

7.1          Types of Dispute

7.2          Analysis of Disputes

7.3          External disputes

7.4          Internal Disputes

7.5          Trust Specific Issues in Mediation

8       Typical Trust and Fiduciary Disputes

8.1          Trustees and Third Party Disputes

8.2          Disputes between Parties to a Trust

8.3          Costs: Fees and Disbursements

9       Preparation of Briefings and Openings by Mediants

9.1          Pre-mediation-proper Items

9.2          Mediation Proper Items

9.3          The Opening Statement

Appendix 1: A Suggested Settlement Checklist Template

10           The Psychology of Mediation

10.1        Conflict

10.2        Chronology of Mediation

10.3        General Psychological Factors Affecting Mediation

10.4        Being Heard

11           The Mediator’s Perspective

11.1        Powers to Mediate and Settle Disputes

11.2        Ethical Issues

11.3        Disclosure of Information

11.4        Relative Size of Dispute

12           Considerations for Islamic and Sharia Trust ADR

12.1        Islamic Jurisprudence and the Concept of the Trust

12.2        Ontario: an Act to amend the Arbitration Act 1991, 2006 (‘the Act’)

12.3        Arbitration and Mediation Services (Equality) Bill (the ‘English Bill’)

12.4        ADR Codes of Conduct

12.5        Arbitration and Mediation in Islamic Jurisprudence

B  Jurisdictions

Introduction

1       Australia

2       Bahamas

3       Barbados

4       The British Virgin Islands

5       Canada

6       Republic of Cyprus

8       Florida

9       France

10           Gibraltar

11           Guernsey

12           Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR)

13           India

14           Ireland

15           Isle of Man

18           Jersey

19           Liechtenstein

20           Malaysia

21           Mauritius

22           New Zealand

23           Panama

24           Scotland

25           Singapore

26           Switzerland

27           United Arab Emirates