CEDR Ireland / ICMA Mediation Audit - Main contents

This marks the first occasion on which CEDR Ireland in association with the Irish Commercial Mediation Association has undertaken a survey of the attitudes of civil and commercial mediators and commercial lawyers to a range of issues concerning their personal background, mediation practice and experience, professional standards and regulation, and priorities for the field over the coming years.

The survey was undertaken using an internet-based questionnaire, which was open to all mediators in the Ireland, regardless of organisational affiliation. It was publicised by way of CEDR’s website and direct e-mail to the mediator and lawyer contacts both of CEDR and of other leading service providers and members of the Irish Commercial Mediation Association, in conjunction with which this Mediation 2013 Audit has been carried out.

The particular focus of this year’s survey was to assess how the market and mediation attitudes have changed over the past number of years. As in any survey, not all participants answered every question.

Alongside our survey of mediator attitudes, we conducted a parallel survey of lawyer attitudes in order to provide a client-oriented perspective to some of the questions raised. This survey did not attract as wide a response as from the mediators, and we have therefore only published those findings where there appears to be a statistically significant and interesting contrast between the views of mediators and those of lawyers.

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