ABSTRACT

This is an agreement between the Mediation Centre (hereafter ‘the Center’); ____________ and ____________ (hereafter identied as ‘the parties’ or ‘party’).

The parties have a dispute, which they wish to submit to mediation and in doing so they recognise and agree that:

(1) Mediation is a structured problem-solving process in which a neutral, impartial third person or persons assists the parties to the dispute to reach a voluntary agreement to resolve the dispute. The mediator facilitates the negotiations, but does not impose his or her views of what the agreement should be.