| Abstrakt: |
The increasing use of mediation throughout the justice system has generated a debate about its implications for women. Although widely supported as a positive reform within the legal system, most women's roups oppose the use of mediation as antithetical to their short- an%long-term interests. The practice of mediation organized around an ideology of neutrality, privacy and consensusbuilding is applauded by its supporters as humanizing an unresponsive and sluggish legal system and condemned by its opponents as undermining the commitment of actors within the legal system to widenin the rights of women. This discussion explores the parameters of tks debate as the use of mediation has begun to change the delivery of legal services within the~us!ice,system. This paper suggests that the controversy about me iatlon 1s Important and in need of further discussion because it reflects significant disagreement about the function of law for women. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER] |
