Legislation

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…

Commercial Mediation, Dispute Resolution, India, Legislation, Mandatory mediation, Opt-Out, Promoting Mediation

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The Indian parliament passed the Commercial Courts, Commercial Division and Commercial Appellate Division of High Courts (Amendment) Bill, 2018 (“Bill”) on 10 August, 2018. In a potentially significant development, section 12A of the Bill stipulates mandatory pre-institution mediation i.e. the plaintiff is mandatorily required to exhaust the remedy of mediation prior to filing a suit…

Brazil, Dispute Resolution, Lawyers, lawyers in mediation, Legislation

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Brazil is on its way to making lawyers mandatory on mediation procedures. Last month the House of Representatives approved a bill (PL 5.511/2016) that reads, in a free translation, “it is mandatory the presence of Lawyers in consensual dispute resolution procedures, such as mediation and conciliation”. Now the Senate will analyze the subject before it…

Arbitration, Australia, Commercial Mediation, Dispute Resolution, Due Process, Hong Kong, Legal Issues, Legislation, Med-Arb Clauses, Mediation Practice, mediation process, Mediation Reforms (Legislation, etc.), Mediators’ Conduct, The role of the mediator

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(This post is being republished because of technical problems when it was first published) The recently reported Australian case of Ku-ring-gai Council v Ichor Constructions Pty Ltd [2018] NSWSC 610 (8 May 2018) provides a useful lesson in how not to conduct the hybrid Arb-Med-Arb process, from which (I hope) we might learn how to…

ADR, Developing the Field, Dispute Resolution, Europe, Future of mediation, Legislation, Mandatory mediation, Mediation Act, Regulation

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It cannot be suggested that mediation in Greece has been a success, yet. It cannot be said that it has been a failure either. The fact of the matter is that few cases have been to mediation to date in this country, hence in practice it is an unfamiliar process for citizens and companies. However,…