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Courts do not provide the only means of resolving disputes. What other existing methods provide alternatives? How satisfactory are they?
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Burak Mertcan Courts do not provide the only means of resolving disputes. What other existing methods provide alternatives? How satisfactory are they? Where, for one or more reasons, court action is not the best way of solving dispute, a wide range of alternative methods of dispute resolution known as ADR may be used. There are many reasons for why cases end up in alternative methods of dispute resolution rather than being solved through court hearings. Firstly the adversarial process, which is where the court divides both parties and they may end up as enemies even where they did not start out that way. Also costs can be very high in a court case, for example in a business dispute the average cost of a court case is about £100,000 including lawyer's fees. In a court hearing, the rules of procedure lay down a fixed framework for the way in which...
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