Mediation is a completely voluntary and confidential form of negotiation.

It involves an independent, impartial person, the mediator, bringing together two or more individuals or groups, enabling them to talk in order to reach a solution that they devise and that is acceptable to the parties involved.

The mediator can talk to both sides separately or together. The mediator does not make judgments or determine outcomes - she asks questions that help to uncover underlying problems, assist the parties to understand the issues and help them to clarify the options for resolving their difference or dispute but the ultimate power to settle a dispute remains with the parties in dispute.

The mediator will not impose a solution – it is for the parties to reach agreement if they wish. Nor will the mediator give any evaluation or judgment.

The formidable power of Mediation is that it gets the relevant people – the parties themselves and their lawyers – in the same place at the same time and help them identifying and focusing on the same problem, not just on procedure. In litigation this does not usually happen until just before the trial. Cases often do settle at the door of the court, but usually with the disadvantage that a substantial amount of time, energy and legal costs have been spent by all concerned and great amount of sleep lost.

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