Civil mediation programme – Practice Direction 2 of 2012

Practice Direction No. 6 of 2007 created a mediation programme for certain defended civil proceedings issued at the Court at Broadmeadows. Since then, the scope of the programme has expanded. The Dispute Settlement Centre of Victoria provides the mediators. Since its inception, the programme has used two mediators for each proceeding. This has worked well. However, it is proposed to see whether a single mediator will be as effective as two. The purpose of this Practice Direction is to establish a pilot within the overall programme where certain civil proceedings are mediated by a single mediator