University Lecture: Conciliation in Practice with Anne-Marie Rice

About this lecture

Conciliation continues to play an increasingly important role across courts, tribunals, regulators and professional practice. Yet its application, purpose and boundaries can look very different depending on the system, sector and stakeholders involved.

In this guest lecture, Shiv Martin and Anne-Marie Rice will draw on their experiences across diverse sectors to explore how conciliation operates in practice, the challenges faced by practitioners, and the opportunities conciliation offers as a flexible, principled and human-centred dispute resolution process.

The session will reflect on how conciliation adapts to different institutional settings, the skills required to navigate complexity, and the balance between process, authority, fairness and resolution.

What the lecture will explore

While the specific focus will be shaped by discussion on the day, themes may include: