Perceptions in litigation and mediation : lawyers, defendants, plaintiffs, and gendered parties / Tamara Relis.

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

1st edition

70967

Mediation.

Dispute resolution (Law)

Actions and defences.

1. Introduction

2. Great misconceptions or disparate perceptions of plaintiffs' litigation aims?

3. Voluntary versus mandatory mediation divide

4. Consequences of power : legal actors versus disputants on defendants' attendance at mediation

5. Actors' mediation objectives : how lawyers versus parties plan to resolve their cases short of trial

6. Perceptions during mediations

7. Parallel views on mediators and styles

8. Conclusion : the parallel understandings and experiences in case processing and mediation.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9780521517317

xix, 279 p. : ill. ; 24 cm