Editorial

Abstract

This edition of our Journal brings together an interesting collection of five articles and two book reviews. Among the topics covered:
• an historical analysis of influences on mediation
• understanding the work of the Traveller Mediation Service in prisons
• research findings on the role of mediation in medical negligence
• the importance of apology in how mediation proceeds, and
• what we can learn from the enforced shift to online mediation from March 2020 as a result of the pandemic.