Adv Jacques Joubert

It's official: The Rules Board of the Department of Justice has announced that new (new) Mediation Rules will soon be published for comment, and that court based mediation will be...

    “The specific problems we face cannot be solved using the same patterns of thought  that were used to create them.” Albert Einstein Neuroscientists using MRI scans confirm that...

        Woza Mediation published a post on 29 June 2012 about a talented and troubled friend. I intended to highlight the potential of mediation in the criminal justice system. Black, Talented...

      In 1925 the visionary, Mary Parker Follet identified three ways  to make decisions and resolve controversies: domination, compromise and integration. Domination uses force, manipulation and deception. It...

         "A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights." Napoleon. Litigation, including arbitration is not far removed from warfare as illustrated by Napoleon’s...

     Woza Mediation’s manifesto is to resolve disputes with integrity. But I haven’t always been a mediator. I started my career as a prosecutor in Johannesburg in 1988 and...

    Social media platforms such as YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn and Google+, the instant messaging and camera applications of cell phones are profoundly changing our world. A new...

      “I survive on credit” - Lonmin mineworker in a Sunday paper of 2 September 2012. With an over-indebted middle class, the credit industry is probably targeting salary-earning...

     The share price of Taste Holdings, owner of Scooters Pizzas, Max’s and St Elmo’s Woodfried Pizzas fell by 9.4% last Wednesday on news that it was embroiled in...

     The international trend is that more than 90% of civil cases are settled out of court through negotiations, and not in court through adjudication. Escalating costs to run...