With hindsight

I AM happy and proud to be a supporting member of the London Maritime Arbitrators Association. One of the rather quirky spin-offs from this is that I get the president’s report each year, together with the minutes of the previous year’s agm. So, earlier this year, I was able to read what had transpired in March 1996 on the subject of ADR. I quote.

"Q Bargate raised the issue of ADR, and what had the LMAA done to encourage it. The president said that really nothing was being done at the moment but he would like to hear from C Aston. C Aston said that there had been very little movement over the last eighteen months...He felt there was a risk in trying to flog a dead horse."

It is easy to be wise after the event, of course, but Lord Wolff this isn’t.