Mediation and ADR can help produce cost effective and creative results which are otherwise unavailable in traditional litigation and arbitration. All members of our commercial dispute resolution team have regular exposure to mediation and some are qualified mediators themselves.
We have extensive experience in and regularly advise a broad range of clients on all aspects of the following types of ADR:
- Adjudication - often used in construction disputes, this is an early, fast, temporarily binding but interim resolution of the dispute
- Conciliation - often used in industrial disputes, where the conciliator brings the parties together and acts as a facilitator in discussions
- Mediation - the most common form of ADR, where the mediator is a neutral third party who assists in exploring settlement options, measuring the strengths and weaknesses in each party's case and works towards reaching a mutually agreed and binding resolution
- Neutral evaluation - a process by which a neutral individual hears submissions from the parties on the merits of a case and offers a non-binding evaluation of the likely outcome in the event the matter proceeds to adjudication by a judge or arbitrator