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Mediating In The Shadow Of Australian Law: Structural Influences On Adr, Nadja Alexander
Mediating In The Shadow Of Australian Law: Structural Influences On Adr, Nadja Alexander
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Mediation has grown rapidly in many Anglophone jurisdictions such as USA, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and England. The current state of mediation practice in many of these jurisdictions can be traced back to the establishment of community justice centres in the 1970s and 1980s. Mediation is practised in the private sector as well as in a wide range of court-referred programs. In many common law jurisdictions mediation is no longer a form of alternative dispute resolution, it has become primary dispute resolution.