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Bernard George 03:34 pm

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.

There are also unscrupulous claimants, and their equally unscrupulous solicitors (you know who you are), who will rely on the HMCTS mediation service to get defendants to make a settlement offer where they have no cause of action, and no prospect of succeeding in a properly defended hearing.

But, like all changes to the judicial process, this will take so long to come to fruition (if at all) that it won't happen in the lifetime of anyone reading this.

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