What’s happening in international mediation in 2021? [SIDRA survey]

• Main Authors: ALEXANDER, Nadja, GOH, Samantha Clare Man Xin, LEE, Ryce
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2021
• Subjects: Dispute resolution; survey; interviews; SIDRA; international commercial mediation; technology; Dispute Resolution and Arbitration; International Law
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/3303; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sol_research/article/5261/viewcontent/mediation_2021.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

The Singapore International Dispute Resolution Academy (“SIDRA”) issued the global International Dispute Resolution Survey: 2020 Final Report (the “SIDRA Survey”) on 3 July 2020, which studied the preferences, experiences, and perspectives of legal users (lawyers and legal advisers) and client users (corporate executives and in-house counsel) with regard to, among other mechanisms, international commercial mediation. Previous blogs have commented on the Survey findings. The SIDRA Survey was followed by a qualitative study conducted between November to December 2020, consisting of in-depth interviews held with 18 Legal Users and Client Users from 11 countries (“SIDRA Interviews”). This post focuses on some findings from the SIDRA Interviews on international commercial mediation – specifically its relationship with hybrid mechanisms, its use in investor-State disputes and the potential for technology to change mediation practice.