The family court workers also help prepare Court applications and attend Court and
judicial dispute resolution hearings with the parties.
While many courts are expanding the number and nature of non-adversarial dispute resolution services available, such as the family cases conferences provided by the Provincial Court of British Columbia or
the judicial dispute resolution hearings available in the Alberta Court of Queen's Bench, adversarial procedures remain the dominant feature of the litigation process.
Not exact matches
You may want to consider
judicial review if you were a part of a
dispute resolution proceeding at the Residential Tenancy Branch (RTB) which did not go in your favour and you believe that the decision made by the arbitrator at the
hearing was unreasonable or unfair.
The Alberta Court of Queen's Bench announced starting in the autumn, the numbers of judges
hearing judicial dispute resolutions in Calgary and Edmonton will be reduced from three to two a week.
Unified Family Court increases efficiency and is better for families by eliminating duplicate
hearings, decreasing the potential for conflicting orders, creating opportunity for alternative
dispute resolution and promoting more informed
judicial decision making.
However even when a full settlement is not reached, the
hearing provides a useful reality check for litigants, helps to clarify the issues in
dispute and prepares the parties for future
judicial and extrajudicial
dispute resolution processes.
A
judicial officer
hearing a Hague matter may indicate early in the process that
dispute resolution may be of assistance to parties, not just in relation to the matter of return but in relation to parenting matters generally.
The reasoning was that since arbitration is a form of alternative
dispute resolution and not a true
judicial hearing, it did not violate the core principle of the collaborative process that attorneys were disqualified from going to «court.»