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Assess the effectiveness of using alternatives to Civil Courts.
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Assess the effectiveness of using alternatives to Civil Courts. Court action is not the best way of solving a dispute; a range of alternative methods of dispute resolution might be used. One of simplest is of course informal negotiation between the parties themselves, with or without the help of lawyers; the high numbers of civil cases settled out of court are examples of this. Formal schemes include the Advisory Conciliation and Arbitration Service, which mediates in many industrial disputes and unfair dismissal cases; the role of ombudsmen in dealing with disputes in the fields of insurance and banking, and in complaints against central and local government and public services; the conciliation scheme offered by courts and voluntary organisations to divorcing couples and the arbitration schemes run by the Institute of Arbitrators for business disputes. In a court hearing, the rules of procedure lay down a fixed framework for the way in which...
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