ABSTRACT
Negotiation is one of several oral skills exercises that you may be required to engage with, not only for non-assessed skills development but also in relation to formal assessment. It depends on a fine balance of personal research, personal oral skills competency and good interpersonal team working skills. While mooting represents the litigation paradigm and the concept of court-based dispute resolution, negotiation introduces the ideology of alternative dispute resolution (ADR). This is the alternative to going to court or moving through the trial court process.1 While the aim of a moot is to win (as is the aim of a court case), the aim of a negotiation is to reach a settlement with the other party.
