Mediation in civil matters

- Mediation in civil matters The purpose of the thesis is detailed analys of mediation as the type of alternative dispute resolution, its basic principles and elements, all in confrontation with Czech legal enactment of mediation and in connection with other legislation. The thesis should provide an overview of implanting the mediation into the legal system of Czech Republic, interconnetion with concerned branches of law, especially with Civil Procedural Law. The reflections of the author are focused especially on the question, if the recent legislative regulation of mediation in Czech Republic helps to establish mediation as the standard and demanded type of dispute resolution in the eyes of both professional and laic public, there are also the reasoning on the alternative variants of legal regulation of mediation and reflections de lege ferenda contained. The first chapter presents the ADR as the set of procedures different from court proceedings determined to dispute settlement, among which the mediation belongs too. The purpose of this part of the thesis was especially comparison of the mediation with other types of alternative dispute resolution, particularly the arbitration. The next chapter defines mediation itself, with the special emphasis on the analys of legislative definition of the..