The Act on the Promotion of Mediation and Other Extrajudicial Conflict Resolution Procedures (“Mediation Act“) came into force on 26.07.2012. A compromise had previously been reached in the Mediation Committee of the Bundestag and Bundesrat(more).
The Federal Ministry of Justice explains the importance of mediation:
“The law is a milestone in improving the culture of dispute resolution in Germany. Mediation offers many affected parties the great opportunity to resolve existing conflicts outside of court and thus without the feeling of having been “sentenced to something” by a judge.”(more)
Link to the article from CMS?
All information on the process can be found at https://dip.bundestag.de
