ethics of australian mediation

INTRODUCTION - THE OBJECTIVE OF FAIRNESS On the 31st of March 2001, Attorney-General, Daryl Williams, launched the National Alternative Dispute Resolution Advisory Council's (NADRAC) discussion paper on ‘The Development of Standards for Alternative Dispute Resolution’. Among the ‘core objectives for ADR’ highlighted by NADRAC in this document was that ADR “uses a process which is considered by the parties to be fair.” This ‘objective of fairness’ is reflected in NADRAC’s 1997 paper entitled ‘Alternative Dispute Resolution …

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