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For the first time, a large volume of South African medico-legal disputes will pass through a mediation process as a matter of course rather than by exception. Whether that produces better outcomes is not yet known as the scheme is young and no outcome data has been published. But the opportunity is real, and there is a decade of evidence from a comparable public health system about what determines whether it is taken.

Overview of the Mandatory Mediation Directive The Judge President of the Gauteng High Court has recently introduced a significant...