Abstract
These papers outline types of alternative dispute resolution methods being used in Australia and the programs which use them. It looks at whether alternative dispute resolution is effective as a system of justice. It also discusses the management of programs and the role of the third party in resolving disputes.
Proceedings of a seminar held 22-24 July 1986
Contents
- Overview
- Welcoming remarks
Professor Richard Harding - Opening address
Sir Laurence Street - Alternative dispute resolution - what is it?
Ms Jenny David
Unmet needs for dispute resolution
- Unmet needs for dispute resolution in South Australia
Ms Judith Worrall - Criminal justice centres - achieving their goal
Ms Maureen Carter
Australian developments
- Community mediation
Mr David Bryson - The registrar and court counsellor's role in conflict resolution
Mr Peter Mark - Alternative dispute resolution - a private centre
Mr Vaughan Massey - The use of conciliation in Australia to resolve complaints of discrimination made under federal and state legislation
Ms Joan Nelson - Dispute resolution in small claims tribunals
Mr Michael Levine - Alternative dispute resolution in the court system
Mr Graeme Johnstone and Ms Nerida Wallace
Evaluating informal justice
- Evaluating the 'quality of justice' provided by the Christchurch Community Mediation Service
Dr Jan Cameron - Privatisation of justice: power differentials, inequality and the palliative of counselling and mediation
Dr Jocelynne A. Scutt
The relationship between informal justice and the criminal justice system
- Alternative dispute resolution: a New South Wales Police perspective
Det Sergeant C.S. Ireland - De-institutionalised social control: the evolution of informal justice and its effect on government systems of sentence administration in criminal matters
Professor John W. Ekstedt - Impact of alternative dispute resolution on the criminal justice system
Judge John S. Bisphan
Managing programmes
- Managing programmes - setting up programmes - quality control and training - legislative issues and management structures
Ms Wendy Faulkes - Establishing an alternative dispute resolution project with a community based philosophy
Ms Lynda Donnelly - Managing programmes - quality control and training
Ms Linda Fisher
Role of the third party neutral
- Imbalance of power between disputants - matching disputes with dispute resolution methods - conflict of roles where more than one resolution method is employed
Ms Wendy Faulkes - Imbalance of power between disputants
Mr Charles R. Foley - Matching the dispute to the dispute resolution process: items for consideration
Dr Martha M. Gelin - Conflict of roles where more than one resolution method is employed
Mr Lawrie Moloney
- Issues in alternative dispute resolution: concluding overview
Dr Jan Cameron - Participants