Court-annexed mediation, as it is called, is mediation under the umbrella of courts. To maximise the potential gains in court-annexed mediation, Chief Justice David Maraga established a task force that was gazetted in July 2017, chaired by High Court judge Fred Ochieng’. Part of its mandate is to oversee a national roll-out of court-annexed mediation. Even as we wait to see more, it would appear that court-annexed mediation is the new frontier in dispute resolution and reducing case backlog in the courts. Advocate and member of the Task Force on Court-Annexed Mediation

Source: The Star March 11, 2019 05:37 UTC