Reflective report

Module title: Business Law

Student: Vasilica Madalin Muntele

Lecturer: Rosie Watson

Date of submission: 30/08/13

Our assignment question was “What is ADR and how does it improve access to the justice system?” The team that was assign for this presentation included alongside me, my colleagues Modupe and Hydras. We began with a decision to whom will “break the ice” in the presentation. After a quick debate, we divided the presentation into three parts:

• Introduction, held by me, about alternative dispute resolution

• Types of alternative dispute resolution, held by Hydras; and finally

• Advantages and disadvantages of alternative dispute resolution, and how can it improve access to the justice system.

Following I am going to make a summary of what I had to talk about during the oral presentation.

“Civil disputes occur when a person’s rights have been infringed or an individual has been injured because of another person’s action or inaction ADR involves settling a civil legal dispute by a method other than a decision before a court.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, many people became increasingly concerned that the traditional method of resolving legal disputes, through conventional litigation, had become too expensive, too slow, and too cumbersome for many civil lawsuits (cases between private parties). This concern led to the growing use of ways other than litigation to resolve disputes. These other methods are commonly known collectively as alternative dispute resolution (ADR).

As of the early 2000s, alternative dispute resolutions techniques were being used more, as parties and courts realized that these techniques could often help them resolve legal disputes quickly, cheaply, and more privately than could conventional litigation. Moreover, many people preferred alternative