Perceptions in litigation and mediation
Subtitle: lawyers, defendants, plaintiffs, and gendered parties
By: Tamara Relis.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge [UK]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9780521517317
Subjects: Mediation; Dispute resolution (Law); Actions and defenses
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Great misconceptions or disparate perceptions of plaintiffs' litigation aims?; title: Voluntary versus mandatory mediation divide; title: Consequences of power : legal actors versus disputants on defendants' attendance at mediation; title: Actors' mediation objectives : how lawyers versus parties plan to resolve their cases short of trial; title: Actors' divergent perceptions of 'what goes on' during mediation; title: Parallel views on mediators and styles; title: Conclusion : the parallel understandings and experiences in case processing and mediation.