Sheila Bates of ArbDB Chambers is a speaker at the Congrès International de Mediation in Angers, France, which runs from 5th to 7th October. The patron of the conference is President Emmanuel Macron

Sheila will be speaking about Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) and how this impacts disputes in the current volatile world we are living in.

She will focus on multi-party stakeholders, complexities in the supply chain and human rights issues.

Businesses in France are using mediation increasingly, in light of recent legislation and cases in the French courts related to due diligence and corporate accountability.