Advantages of Resolution of Civil Disputes through Judicial Mediation over Litigation

Authors

  • Levan Zhorzholiani

Keywords:

Mediation, judicial mediation, court, confidentiality, expenses, time, informality, Code, legal, mediator, agreement.

Abstract

Dispute resolution of civil cases is compelling matter as for society as legal scholars and judiciary. Existing conditions and statistics analysis reveals that commonly the judges of Tbilisi City Court consider more than thousand cases. Every doubt which is connected to quality of the decisions taken by trial jurisdiction in legit. Accordingly, this paper represents the opinion that the reasonable mean to solve the abovementioned problem is to pass the disputes to the judicial mediation, which includes, shares the most of the advantages and disadvantages of mediation, including its own specifications. The Paper characterizes the institutional parts of mediation and it is compared to the provisions of Civil Procedural Code of Georgia, regulating the terms, expenses and other issues. The object of the paper is launching scholarly dispute about how the resolution of civil disputes through judicial mediation is preferential and what are the disadvantages of current judicial system. Also, the target of the article is to represent the judicial mediation as one of the best ways for the parties to resolve a dispute, maintain relations or terminated it a civilized manner with lesser costs, in a comfortable, informal environment, by their own efforts, quickly, excluding publicity, avoiding the creation of judicial precedents, judicial approval of mediated agreement.

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Published

2017-07-31

How to Cite

Zhorzholiani, L. (2017). Advantages of Resolution of Civil Disputes through Judicial Mediation over Litigation. Journal of Law, (1). Retrieved from https://jlaw.tsu.ge/index.php/JLaw/article/view/1845

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