This is a method of conflict resolution that is characterized by the intervention of an impartial and expert third person – with specific studies in psychology and mediation – whose objective is to help the parties in conflict and facilitate the attainment of a mutually satisfactory agreement. It is characterized by: being a voluntary process for all parties involved and, therefore, can end whenever any of them wishes; by being also a confidential process for both the parties and the mediator, and, equally, by the impartiality of the mediator, given that its main job is to facilitate communication between the parties and help them to find the needs of each of them, and thus be able to achieve an agreement satisfactory for both. All this in order to avoid the opening of contentious judicial proceedings or putting an end to them.

The agreement is an agreement made to measure for the parties and not imposed by third parties. It is binding on the parties that sign the final agreement. The agreements will have to be approved. The cost is much lower than that of a litigious judicial route.

Practical applications

In family law, community law, horizontal property, leases, contracts in general, family businesses, commercial and maritime, among others.

Mediators

Laura Domènech Roqueta (Lawyer), in collaboration with Psychologist-mediator.