
Have you ever heard of “alternative dispute resolution?”
One of the services The Legal Advice Office provides to our clients, and other interested parties; is alternative dispute resolution procedures.
These procedures broadly speaking include interventions, mediation, arbitration and other dispute resolution procedures and methods to settle disputes between two parties without proceeding with a civil court action; which could cost tens of thousands of Rands; take two years to finalise; and, if you lose, you have to pay a portion of the other person’s costs.
Alternative dispute resolution is cheaper, quicker and more efficient.
Here is an example of such a situation; which we dealt with during the course of this last month.