Here’s a selection of interesting conflict cases I’ve been involved into as neutral.
I have not taken into account adjudicative-type interventions, such as in arbitration since in that cases, party interaction is greatly limited by the rigidity of the process mechanism.
The idea is to give a glimpse at the features of each conflict situation, and at the impact my intervention as a third party may have had. In the meanwhile, the reader can hopefully appreciate the variety of cases and situations possibly feasible for ADR, and the fact that, in the end, conflict dynamics tend to reproduce themselves in a very similar way irrespective of of the matter object.
2025: The allocation of condominium costs among the various owners turns out to be incorrect apparently due to initial miscalculations. The mediation involves both the current and former administrators, and their respective counsels.
2025: A shop operating within a shopping centre refuses to pay the fees requested by a management consortium, claiming that it never joined. The consortium, on the other hand, claims that acceptance was in fact given. The parties were involved in a legal dispute before a judge who asked them to mediate.
2025: A landowner bequeathed his land to a municipality. A few years later, the municipality sold it to private individuals, but due to an error, a small portion was not included in the deed of sale, even though it was being used by the buyers without dispute. Thirty years later, the question arose as to how to rectify the situation.
2025: a commercial director and her senior area manager have different views on how to conduct business. This creates a leadership problem within an organisation.
2025: A company procures tax credits for another company, in exchange for a certain fee. When it emerges that there are criminal investigations into those credits, the purchasing company no longer wants to pay the agreed commissions.
2025: A brother and sister become heirs to land and a business run by their late father. They are unable to divide the inheritance due to differing assessments of the value of the assets and, above all, due to the different roles they both played in running the family business.