Subjects:

Arbitration and Dispute Resolution

Contents:

Conflict and dispute.

Dispute resolution outline.

Litigation and court reform.

Arbitration and other adjudication.

Court-annexed ADR.

Negotiation.

Mediation: the fundamentals.

Mediation: stages and facets.

Civil and commercial mediation.

Divorce and family mediation and other family processes.

Employment mediation and conciliation.

Mediation of community and neighbour disputes.

Victim-offender mediation and reparation.

Mediation of environmental and public policy issues.

On being a mediator.

Non-binding evaluative ADR.

ADR: information, technology , the internet and cyberspace.

Choice and timing of process use.

Lawyers' role representing parties in mediation.

Jurisdiction, forum and law.

Ethics and values, fairness and power balance.

Confidentiality and privilege.

Enforcement of ADR outcomes.

Regulation, funding and insurance.

Future directions.

Appendix 1: Dispute resolution organisations.

Appendix 2: mediation drafting:

documents and precedents.

Glossary.

Bibliography.

ADR: Principles and Practice is the essential title on Alternative Dispute Resolution. It has become the classic reference work in the UK and many other parts of the world. For the second edition much of the book has been revised and extra material added. Its features include the following:-

• Amplified mediation, paying special attention to civil and commercial arbitration, developments in employment dispute resolution and the wide range of developing options on separation and divorce
  
• Examination and analysis of Woolf reforms and pilot schemes, with a chapter on court-attached ADR
  
• Extensive guidance through all stages of mediation
  
• Update of all aspects of ADR including ethical issues, confidentiality and privilege, good faith principles, organisation developments and court practice directions
  
• An Appendix offers guidance on drafting, with documents and precedents.