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Roberts, Marian

Ms Marian Roberts  

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Position held

Department of Law

Visiting Fellow

 

Experience keywords:

International family mediation; alternative dispute resolution (ADR); child abduction mediation.; family mediation; mediation; professional regulation; professional standards; quality assurance

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Marian Roberts is qualified as a barrister and a social worker. She has been in continuous practice as a family mediator since 1982, working in one of the first (and largest) family mediation services to be established in this country, The SE London Family Mediation Bureau, set up in 1979. Her practice focuses on high conflict disputes over children. She has been recognized under the Legal Services Commission's competence assessment procedure for the purposes of practising in publicly funded family mediation cases. She is a member of the College of Mediators.

During the 1990's she was responsible for overseeing the creation and development of National Family Mediation's national training and professional practice framework. This included the development of policies, practice guidelines and training on mediation in relation to children, cross-cultural mediation and domestic abuse. She was co-manager, with Dr. Judith Trowell (Tavistock Clinic) and Professor Michael King (Law Department, Brunel University) of the first child protection mediation scheme to operate in the UK, funded by the Department of Health (piloted 1995-1999).

She was a member of the reunite Steering Group on Child Abduction and Mediation and one of its pool of mediators in a pilot (culminating in a report in October, 2006) exploring the potential of mediation in bi-national child abduction situations. She continues to co-mediate in cases of child abduction under the auspices of Reunite.

A Governor of the UK College of Family Mediators (the professional regulatory body for all family mediators) until 2006, and member (and former Chair) of its Professional Standards Committee, she also remains closely involved in the development of the regulatory framework for mediation generally. This includes having been a member of the Legal Service Commission's Working Group on the Mediation Quality Mark and currently, a member of its Mediation Advisory Group.

She is a Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science, teaching on the London University Masters in Law (LL.M) Alternative Dispute Resolution course since 1989 and now the LSE ADR LL.M. She is Professorial Research Associate in the Department of Law at the School of Oriental and African Studies, teaching on its ADR LL.M.

Sectors and industries to which research relates:

Law

Media experience:

Radio; TV

Contact Points

LSE email:

m.roberts@lse.ac.uk

Publications

2015

Roberts, Marian (2015) Hearing both sides: structural safeguards for protecting fairness in family mediation Family Law, 45. 718-726. ISSN 0014-7281

Roberts, Marian (2015) A view from the coal face: interdisciplinary influences in family mediation in the United Kingdom Journal of Comparative Law, 9 (2). 108-118.

Roberts, Marian (2015) Children and mediation: a response to the Ministry of Justice report on the voice of the child in dispute resolution Family Law, 45. 1531-1536. ISSN 0014-7281

Roberts, Marian (2015) Mediation in family disputes: principles of practice. 4th, Ashgate, Hampshire, UK. ISBN 9781409450337

2013

Roberts, Marian (2013) A-Z of mediation Professional keywords. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK. ISBN 9781137002983

Roberts, Marian (2013) Specialist child care mediation: mediation in public law Family Law, 43 (6). 749-752. ISSN 0014-7281

2012

Roberts, Marian (2012) International family mediators International Family Law, Sep. 266-267. ISSN 1369-5762

Roberts, Marian (2012) Family mediation: the development of the regulatory framework in the United Kingdom In: Menkel-Meadow, Carrie, (ed.) Foundations of Dispute Resolution. Complex dispute resolution , 1. Ashgate Publishing, Hampshire, UK. ISBN 9780754627968

2010

Roberts, Marian (2010) Quality standards for family mediation practice Family Law, 40. 661-666. ISSN 0014-7281

2008

Roberts, Marian (2008) International family mediation and recommendation No R(98)1: A chronicle of expansion foretold International Family Law, 217. ISSN 1369-5762

Roberts, Marian (2008) Mediation in family disputes: principles of practice. (3rd edition) Ashgate, Hampshire, UK. ISBN 9780754646198

2007

Roberts, Marian (2007) Developing the craft of mediation: reflections on theory and practice Jessica Kingsley Publishers, London, UK. ISBN 9781843103233

2006

Roberts, Marian (2006) Voluntary participation in family mediation Family Law, 36. ISSN 0014-7281

2005

Roberts, Marian (2005) Hearing both sides: structural safeguards for protecting fairness in family mediation Mediation in Practice. ISSN 1750-8452

Roberts, Marian (2005) Family mediation: the development of the regulatory framework in the United Kingdom Conflict Resolution Quarterly, 22 (4). 509-526. ISSN 1536-5581

2003

Roberts, Marian (2003) Third persons in family mediation: towards a typology of practice Mediation in Practice. ISSN 1750-8452

1996

Roberts, Marian (1996) Family mediation and the interests of women: facts and fears Family Law, 26. ISSN 0014-7281

1994

Roberts, Marian (1994) Who is in charge?: effecting a productive exchange between researchers and practitioners in the field of family mediation Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 16 (4). 439-454. ISSN 0964-9069

1992

Roberts, Marian (1992) Systems or selves?: some ethical issues in family mediation Mediation Quarterly, 10 (1). 3-19. ISSN 1536-5581

1988

Davis, Gwynn and Roberts, Marian (1988) Access to agreement: a consumer study of mediation in family disputes Open University Press, Berkshire, UK. ISBN 9780335098309

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Marian Roberts' A-Z of Mediation succinctly captures the concepts, applications, debates and critiques that are shaping this rapidly expanding field.

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