My own advice to you now would be to reject mediation and to go directly to trial. On that basis your argument would be that the matter includes an important point of law – the rights of third parties – that the defendant routinely denies third party rights under the 1999 Act – and it is something which now must be considered and decided at trial. The downside to rejecting mediation is that the defendants could say to the judge that regardless of the outcome of the trial – even if the dec