Practice Areas

At Patey Mediations, we deliver professional, efficient, and outcome-focused mediation services across a range of civil litigation matters. With decades of litigation experience and a full-time mediation practice, we understand the legal, evidentiary, and practical dynamics that drive disputes — and what’s required to resolve them.

We take an evaluative approach, offering parties not just a platform to be heard, but structured guidance based on legal principles, litigation risk, and the realities of trial. We work as a team — with every mediation supported by our ODR Coordinator — to manage logistics, streamline process, and ensure a disciplined path toward resolution.

Personal Injury & Insurance Litigation

Our mediation practice is rooted in resolving complex personal injury and insurance matters. We offer clear, reality-based evaluations on liability, damages, threshold, and deductibility — providing parties with the insight needed to navigate claims effectively. Our structured and evaluative approach helps clients and counsel close the gap and avoid unnecessary expense.

We mediate disputes involving:

  • Motor vehicle accident claims (tort and AB)
  • Slip/trip and fall injuries
  • Medical malpractice
  • LTD/STD and disability claims
  • Municipal, crown, and police liability
  • Loss transfer and priority disputes

Estate Litigation

We provide experienced, balanced mediation in emotionally charged estate disputes. Whether the issue is a will challenge, executor misconduct, or beneficiary conflict, our focus is on delivering calm, reasoned evaluation — grounded in law and guided by common sense.

Working as a team, we help parties identify the legal strengths and weaknesses of their positions, manage family dynamics, and resolve disputes in a way that preserves dignity and minimizes further estate depletion.

We assist parties in mediating:

  • Challenges to wills (capacity, undue influence)
  • Claims for dependent’s support
  • Executor/estate trustee conflicts and removals
  • Disputes over powers of attorney and passing of accounts
  • No-contest clause enforcement

Employment Litigation

Our approach to employment disputes is structured, evaluative, and sensitive to reputational and emotional considerations. We assist counsel and clients in weighing severance exposure, mitigation realities, and litigation cost — while helping both sides reach durable agreements that restore certainty and closure.

We provide mediation services in:

  • Wrongful and constructive dismissal claims
  • Employment standards disputes
  • Human rights and workplace harassment matters
  • Executive compensation and contract issues

Commercial Litigation

We mediate commercial disputes with a focus on legal clarity, cost control, and business reality. With a disciplined and evaluative approach, we help parties focus on risk, enforceability, and litigation fatigue — identifying the business case for resolution.

Our team-based model ensures even complex, multi-party matters are managed efficiently and effectively.

We assist with:

  • Breach of contract claims
  • Shareholder and partnership disputes
  • Professional negligence matters
  • Real estate and leasing disputes
  • Debt recovery and enforcement