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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.

The global civil justice system is undergoing a profound paradigm shift. Driven by systemic court backlogs, excessive legal costs, and the evolving needs of commercial clients, jurisdictions worldwide are transitioning from a strictly adversarial default to an integrated framework of "Appropriate" Dispute Resolution (ADR).Lawyers and in-house legal counsel fulfil a crucial role in supporting and architecting the evolution of our legal systems to incorporate the use of mediati

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