Traditional legal resolution is based on the adversarial system, through mechanisms such as the trial process - Discuss developments such as mediation and judicial dispute resolution as an alternative to the trial process.
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UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE POLI 343 LAW POLITICS AND THE JUDICIAL PROCESS Traditional legal resolution is based on the adversarial system, through mechanisms such as the trial process. Discuss developments such as mediation and judicial dispute resolution as an alternative to the trial process. Student Number: 203943 November 03, 2003 Introduction The movement of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) has been popular across the Canadian justice system as a mechanism in searching for alternatives to the traditional litigation process in recent years. Part of the explanation for the development of variations in dispute resolution mechanisms lies in the difficulties people experienced in the use of the available public litigation system provided through the courts of this country. One of the most attractive features of ADR is that lawyers and their clients have available to them the freedom to tailor the particular process in resolving disputes. Rather than being forced into the traditional litigation "one-size-fits-all structure" (Cundiff,...


