Judicial Mediation in Civil Disputes in Lithuania

Abstract

The research object of the dissertation is the legal regulation of judicial mediation in civil disputes in Lithuania. The identified object is approached from the perspective of consolidation of the main principals of judicial mediation and the guarantees for their application; the conducted research aims inter alia at identifying whether the legal regulation of judicial mediation in civil disputes is adequate for the peaceful settlement of disputes, inter alia, whether it entrenches the rules that consolidate the universal principles of judicial mediation – rules that are required in order this ADR procedure can be trusted and applied in practice, and whether it creates preconditions for their application. The selected problematic is analysed in the dissertation also from the international perspective, i.e. with respect to the relevant experience of foreign countries and of the European Union. The peculiarities of the model of judicial mediation in civil disputes introduced into the Lithuanian legal system are also identified on the basis of the conducted research.