“I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.” - William Shakespeare (Hamlet Act 3, Scene 1)  

n December 2019, the Rules Board for Courts of Law of the Republic of South Africa proposed the High Court Uniform Rule 41A. The Rule was gazetted on 7 February 2020 (page 31) and comes into effect on 9 March 2020.

I am going to share a series of blog posts over the next days about how to move your group interactions online. For me, however, there is some starting context, a preamble, if you may.

So far, we’ve been lucky. None of the health emergencies or potential pandemics we have been through in recent years has achieved its deadliest potential.

Kimberlee Kovach, a past Chair of the Dispute Resolution Section, has worked in mediation as a teacher, trainer, scholar, and practitioner for more than 35 years.

Some who are faced with the prospect of divorce, are deterred by the sheer magnitude of change that will impact their family’s lives; they worry about the reactions of their children, their friends, their parents, and their siblings. In fact, they worry about everything– not least of which is the price tag associated with the the actual divorce process.