Legislation

Azerbaijan, Developing the Field, Dispute Resolution, Future of mediation, Legislation, Mediation Act, National Mediation Laws, Opt-Out, Regulation

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Azerbaijan adopted the Law on Mediation on March 29, 2019. The Law is based on the principles of UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Mediation and International Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation and different CEPEJ guidelines on mediation. In addition, the Law follows the so-called opt-out mediation model (hereinafter “Opt-Out Mediation Model”), by requiring attendance…

Community Mediation, Dispute Resolution, Future of mediation, India, Legislation, Mediation Act, National Mediation Laws, Promoting Mediation

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Mediation has found increased statutory recognition in India and the legislature has recently introduced it in the Companies Act 2013, the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code 2016, as well as the Commercial Courts Act 2015, among others. Two separate updates from the Supreme Court of India this month have engaged the Indian community in the discussion…

cross-border mediation, Developing the Field, Dispute Resolution, Enforcement, EU Directive on Mediation, Future of mediation, International Law, International Mediation, Legislation, New York Convention, Promoting Mediation, Singapore Convention on Mediation

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The forthcoming Singapore Mediation Convention aims at ensuring the international “direct” enforcement of Mediated Settlement Agreements (“MSAs”) worldwide (see the post by Nadja Alexander, on a short description of the Convention). This means that an MSA shall be enforced directly in any Singapore Mediation Convention contracting state, without a prior review or granting of enforcing…

ADR, Commercial Mediation, cross-border mediation, Developing the Field, Dispute Resolution, Future of mediation, International commercial mediation, International Law, Legislation, Singapore Convention on Mediation

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This post, the second of a two-part series, examines further potential problems of implementing the Singapore Mediation Convention in China and proposes corresponding solutions. The first post in this series considered three potential problems and this second post examines four further potential problems. 4. The SPC should establish an annual reporting system for cases pertaining…

ADR, Commercial Mediation, cross-border mediation, Developing the Field, Dispute Resolution, Enforcement, Future of mediation, International Law, International Mediation, Legislation, National Mediation Laws, UNCITRAL

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On June 26, 2018, the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) approved the final draft of the United Nations Convention on International Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation (“Singapore Mediation Convention” or “the Convention”) at its fifty-first session. The Convention aims to promote international commercial mediation, and to establish a mechanism for the direct…

ADR, Arbitration, Developing the Field, Dispute Resolution, Future of mediation, International commercial mediation, International Law, International Mediation, Legal Issues, Legislation, Mediation Reforms (Legislation, etc.), Singapore, UNCITRAL

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For dispute resolution practitioners familiar with the concept of the seat of arbitration, it may come as a surprise that the new UN Convention on International Settlement Agreement Resulting from Mediation does not include provisions in relation to the ‘seat’ of mediation. Why, you may ask? The Convention includes no provisions on ‘seat’ simply because…

Europe, International Courts, Legal Issues, Legislation, Mandatory mediation, Mediation Reforms (Legislation, etc.), Opt-Out, Regulation

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There are many well-known arguments for and against mandatory mediation. Neither of the two camps of its proponents and opponents appear willing to surrender. However, some recent developments signal that the proponents are now gaining the upper hand. While in the past mandatory mediation schemes were typical for some (but not all) of the common-law…

ADR, Developing the Field, Europe, Legislation, Mediation Reforms (Legislation, etc.), National Mediation Laws, Promoting Mediation, Reform

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It was only on the 31st of May when I published a blog on the new Greek mediation law. Just a few months later a part II, or rather a sequel, seems necessary. As discussed in my first blog on the matter, compulsory mediation was recently enacted in Greece by the new mediation law in…

Confidentiality, Confidentiality and Transparency, Disclosure, EU Directive on Mediation, EU Mediation Directive, Legal Issues, Legislation, Mediation Act, National Mediation Laws, Regulation, regulatory robustness rating for mediation, United States

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Confidentiality of mediation encourages parties to speak freely and openly. This is because they do not need to fear (or much less fear; ex natura confidentiality protections are never ironclad) that their words could be used against them when revealed to an outsider to the mediation process, such as a judge in a court or…

Lawyers, Legislation, Mandatory mediation

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Four years after Romanian Constitutional Courts’ Decision no. 266/2014 has put mediation in Romania to freeze, this year the Parliament has adopted a set of amendments to the Law of Mediation. It included a mandatory „mediation attempt” clause in order to revitalize this activity. But the President of Romania has already challenged these modifications at…