New fronts for mediation as preferred form of dispute resolution amid Covid-19

Singapore

A FAILED joint venture, strained communication and both parties - an American and a Korean - at loggerheads on how to move on.

This was the tense situation senior counsel George Lim was in as a mediator several years ago. To ease the tension, he called for a break, with tea served from a teapot he picked up just a day before the mediation session in Seoul.