To promote mediation as an alternative form of dispute resolution, from 16 to 20 October, between 7:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m., officers from the Criminal Investigation Department will provide information on out-of-court dispute resolution and mediation at the County Police Headquarters in Bolesławiec (Zygmunta Augusta Street).
Mediation is a voluntary and confidential process in which the parties work toward resolving a dispute in the presence of a trusted third party—the mediator. A mediator may be someone completely unknown to the parties or someone close to them (e.g. a brother, sister or friend). Mediation is intended to create conditions enabling the parties to reach a voluntary agreement, rather than impose an authoritative solution on them, which distinguishes it from another alternative dispute-resolution method, arbitration.
In the case of a legal dispute, the aim of mediation is to bring it to an end, particularly through a settlement reached by the parties as a result of mediation (determining the amount of compensation or damages, or imposing other legal duties and obligations on the parties).