Shevchuk L. The principles of mediation as a guarantee of the implementation of pre-trial settlement in Ukraine

https://doi.org/10.33098/2078-6670.2023.16.28.95-99

Goal. Ukrainian legislation has been supplemented by another legal norm, which, with its defined procedural approach, is designed to carry out the process of settlement of conflict situations and disputes, which, as practice shows us, in most cases, were considered only in court. Therefore, this article emphasizes and reveals the essence of the principles on which one of the alternative methods of pre-trial settlement, such as mediation, is based. The main levers that fundamentally differentiate this method from court proceedings are studied. Method. The scientific and theoretical material is analyzed and summarized. During the research, such methods of scientific knowledge as comparative, system-structural were observed. The results. In the course of the research, an analysis of the practical effectiveness of the application of the principles of mediation in the process of dispute settlement, the influence of their nature in the adoption of joint decisions by the parties, as well as the functionality of the principles themselves in maintaining warm relations between the parties to the conflict, was carried out. Scientific novelty. Despite the fact that such a method of pre-trial settlement in the legal field of Ukraine, such as mediation, is already known to some extent, but the novelty itself deserves attention, because its application still requires considerable efforts to implement the introduction into the practical and effective plane of those fundamental principles without which this method unable to exist. And therefore, in fact, this is the content of the novelty, because for a wide range of citizens of Ukraine, it is unfortunately still far from being close to its implementation in their target interests. Practical significance. These research results and conclusions can be applied or taken into account in law enforcement practice, consulting, in the field of judicial and pre-trial proceedings.

Key words. Principles of mediation, mediation, alternative method, voluntariness, neutrality, confidentiality.

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