Alternative Dispute Resolution

   

The 2010 Constitution extensively widened use of alternative dispute resolutions which requires various national laws to incorporate Alternative Dispute Resolution mechanisms, including, negotiations, mediation and arbitration in settlement of disputes.

Despite the accelerated develop and growth, there has been a need to encourage the public to exploit the many viable opportunities that the use of Alternative dispute resolution in managing conflicts affords.

ADR thus offers affordable, flexible, and effective conflict management mechanism that are essential in boosting development especially in the commercial world, hence the need to ensure that more people understand and appreciate the process.

  • ARBITRATION - a mechanism for settlement of disputes, which usually takes place in private, in agreement between two or more parties, under which the parties agree to be bound by the decision to be given by the arbitrator according to the law, or if so agree, other considerations after full hearing, such decision being enforced at law.
  • MEDIATION – a voluntary, non-binding dispute resolution process in which a neutral third party helps parties to reach a negotiated settlement which, when reduced to writing and signed by all parties, becomes binding.
  • PRACTICE AREAS - Litigation and dispute resolutions - Intellectual Property - Civil matters - Commercial Transactions - Employment Law - Business agreements and Partnerships - Real Estate and Conveyancing