However, lately New South Wales announced that it was introducing a modified version of the contingency fees system. Other States are likely to follow suit. Also, in recent years, various experiments have been tried in alternative dispute resolution. Parties to a dispute can decide not to litigate their dispute in a court of law but, instead, hire a private judge. Retired judges have made themselves available, for a fee, as private judges.
Arbitration is common in commercial disputes.
Some psychologists have asserted that they are professionally better qualified than lawyers to resolve disputes and they have advertised their services as dispute resolvers.