Overview
Mediation and Arbitration Services
Our skilled Mediators and Arbitrators act as independent parties whose primary role is to help all the parties involved in a dispute to come to agreements which resolve that dispute.
Mediation is a form of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)
Mediation works. It is a flexible process that can be tailored to navigate the complexities of a dispute involving multiple participants with widely diverging interests and to safeguard constructive future relationships between those involved. Importantly, mediation gives participants access to a wide range of outcomes not available in litigation. Practical resolution by mediation can provide tangible results which are not restricted by the private or public law principles of ‘remedy’.
Usually, all a court will do is order one party to pay money to the other and/or determine legal rights and duties. In mediation, because the parties come to their own agreement, other things can be taken into account to address the parties’ unique needs.
Confidentiality and building trust are cornerstones of mediation practice. Our highly skilled mediators encourage the resolution of disputes by allowing those in conflict to candidly discuss the issues they face, secure in the knowledge that what they say in the mediation is confidential and ‘without prejudice’ (nothing said in the mediation is admissible as evidence in legal proceedings).
2DRJ mediators have built on our strengths including an unrivalled capacity to develop and promote effective communications and build consensus between parties. We also bring experience, commitment and above all creativity and innovation in our approach and thinking to facilitate parties reaching a solution to their problem and arriving at an outcome that all parties are happy to accept.
