Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Mediation
- Advantages
- Empowering - gives control to
the parties.
- Cheaper - don't have costs of going to court
- Less stressful - less formal and adversarial
- Private and confidentail
- Win/win solution - both parties normally compensation to
reach a win/win solution
- Disadvantages
- Power imbalance - if there is mediation may
not be recommended to get a lawyer
- Clear legal rights - may be compromised in mediation
- No clear and consistent history of decision - ie precedent
- Legally binding - can't make anyone pay up
- Mediators
- In QLD there is the Dispute Resolution
Centre (Dept. of Justice and Attorney
General)
- Although mediation can occur without
professional mediators, there are
professional mediation services