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Don't fight, seek mediation
Thu, Apr 16, 2009
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by Khushwant Singh

THE Chief Justice has held up mediation as an effective way of solving disputes.

And he backed this with figures to show its impressive success rates - of up to an astounding 97 per cent.

Speaking at the launch of the new Centre of Dispute Resolution at the Singapore Management University on Thursday morning, CJ Chan Sek Keong pointed out that the Singapore Mediation Centre successfully settled 73.77 per cent of the 1,140 cases from 1997 to March this year.

 

 

 

 

 


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