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Mediation in disputes has some concrete benefits, including significantly reducing costs, says Leigh Jackson, but forcing parties to use a one-size-fits-all protocol might lead to resentment and the process becoming meaningless.

 

A decade has passed since Lord Woolf's reforms and the introduction of the Civil Procedure Rules, which advocated greater use of alternative dispute resolution as a viable means of settling

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