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Federal Law on the Alternative Procedure for the Settlement of Disputes with the Participation of a Mediator (Mediation Procedure) - Russia and the Republics Legal Materials - Second Series
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Preview Page Article 1. Subject-Matter of Regulation and Sphere of Operation of Present Federal Law
1. The present Federal Law has been worked out for the purposes of the creation of legal conditions for the application in the Russian Federation of an alternative procedure for the settlement of disputes with the participation as a mediator of an independent person – a mediator (or mediation procedure), furthering the development of partner business relations, and the formation of the ethics of business turnover and harmonization of social relations.
2. Relations connected with the application of the mediation procedure to disputes arising from civil law relations, including in connection with the effectuation of entrepreneurial and other economic activity, and also disputes arising from labor law relations and family law relations, are regulated by the present Federal Law.
3. If disputes arose from other relations not specified in point 2 of the present Article, the operation of the present Federal Law shall extend to relations connected with the settlement of such disputes by means of the application of the mediation procedure only in instances provided by a federal law.
4. The mediation procedure may be applied after disputes arise considered by way of a civil proceeding and a proceeding in arbitrazh courts.
5. The mediation procedure shall not apply to collective labor disputes, and also to disputes arising from relations specified in point 2 of the present Article if such disputes affect or may affect the rights and legal interests of third persons not participating in the mediation procedure, or public interests.
6. The provisions of the present Article shall not apply to relations connected with the rendering by judges or arbitrators in the course of a judicial or arbitration proceeding of assistance to conciliation of the parties, unless provided otherwise by a federal law.
William E. Butler, Emeritus Professor of Comparative Law in the University of London, attached to University College London, is the John Edward Fowler Distinguished Professor of Law at the Dickinson School of Law, Pennsylvania State University, and Founder and Director of The Vinogradoff Institute.
An authority on the legal systems of Russia and former Soviet nations, he is the author, co-author, editor or translator of more than 3,500 books and articles on Russian, Soviet, Kazakhstan, Ukrainian, Uzbekistan, and other Commonwealth of Independent States legal systems. He has acted as Counsel to the EBRD, European Union, World Bank, United Nations, and Department for International Development of the United Kingdom on individual law reform projects.
The recipient of numerous honors for his service to Russian and international law, Professor Butler is Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, Associate of the International Academy of Comparative Law, and Member of the Russian Academy of Legal Sciences. He has been elected to his fourth term as a member of the Russian International Court of Commercial Arbitration. In 2003 Professor Butler was awarded the G. I. Tunkin Medal by the Russian International Law Association.
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