Mediation is empowering. Through mediation stakeholders can control their own destinies concerning issues and disputes in which they have vested and continued interests. Mediation is a confidential process. The sessions are informal and are not tape-recorded or transcribed. Information disclosed at any time during mediation cannot be revealed in future litigation, should the matter not be resolved.
Mediation is fair.
Mediators are professionally trained, neutral third parties who have no interest in the outcome. Their role is to help the parties resolve the dispute. Unlike arbitration, a mediator does not resolve the dispute or impose a decision on the parties. Instead, the mediator helps the parties to agree on a mutually acceptable resolution, based on their own cost benefit analysis of their interests and options. Mediation is efficient.