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Mediation is useful where the question is "how much?" So it is good for many family cases and personal injury cases.

It is usually a waste of time in all-or-nothing cases, like most debt claims. In such cases one party is wrong, and needs to accept that.

If you mediate your way to a compromise that simply means that the party in the right has been pressurised to take less than they are due. Unscrupulous defendants often use request for mediation as a technique to delay cases and drive up costs, in the hope that the claimant will get fed up and take less than they are due.

Judges need to be sensitive in assessing when mediation is appropriate.

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