GEMME General Assemblies May 24 and 25, 2024 Paris On Friday 24 May 2024, GEMME held its general assemblies in the Grand Chamber of the Cour de Cassation, the venue where it was founded in 2003. The day was marked by academic debates and round tables on the role of the supreme courts and mediation…
GEMME Switzerland will celebrate its 20th anniversary on 20 September 2024 in Neuchâtel This is a celebration in which all GEMME members, whether from Switzerland or other national sections, are invited to take part. The day will begin at 8.30am with a training session for GEMME members only, followed by a colloquium open to all…
GEMME took part in the 32nd World Forum of Mediation Centres in London The meeting took place from 4 to 6 April 2024. It is a meeting of the Officers of the World’s Leading Commercial Mediation Centres. The Forum was presented by the UIA (Union Internationale des Avocats) with the support of the Centre for…
Nearly 300 participants attended the webinar in French or the webinar in Dutch on the law of 19 December 2023 on conciliation and the generalisation of CRAs, organised simultaneously on 20 February 2024 by Gemme Belgium. The programme of the webinar in French was as follows: – Presentation by Cathérine Delforge, Professor at the Université…
The book “GEMME: 20 years promoting mediation in Europe” is now available. Today, March 19, 2024 marks the 20th anniversary of the registration of GEMME’s Declaration as an Association at the Prefecture of Police in Paris. On this occasion we present the book that summarizes the most important milestones of GEMME in these first two…
Recording of the event “Restorative justice in Ireland: The role of the courts in maximising access” GEMME Ireland hosted an in person and online event at The Bar of Ireland on Thursday 21st March 2024. The event was of interest to members of the judiciary and court actors who wish to better understand the benefits…
GEMME’s German section now has its own website It is with great pleasure that we announce that GEMME Deutchland has a new website. A new site to provide information about GEMME’s activities (whether in Europe or in Germany) in German. We reproduce below the welcome letter of Camilla Hölzer, the first First Chairwoman of GEMME…
EUIPO creates a Mediation Centre for Alternative Dispute Resolution in Intellectual Property matters The new Mediation Centre of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) is the first of its kind and is based at EUIPO’s premises in Alicante (Spain). It will offer its services free of charge in different languages. The Mediation Centre’s services…
The draft law on the generalisation of out-of-court settlement chambers (CRA) has been adopted by the Belgian Parliament GEMME Belgium played a leading role in drafting the new law on the extension of chambers for out-of-court settlements (Chambres de Règlement à l’Amiable = CRA) to civil, commercial and social matters, which has just been adopted…
20 years since the first GEMME meeting This week marks the 20th anniversary of the first meeting of GEMME, which took place at the Cour de Cassation in Paris on 19 December 2003 (photo) and was attended by more than 60 magistrates from 7 European countries (Belgium (15), France (35), Germany (6), Holland (1), Italy…