Fred Bauder wrote:
One of the problems is that we can be really wrong, misunderstand what was happening, mediation gives both parties a change to spend some time looking into the dynamics of the situation without worrying about whether any particular rule was broken, in fact, successful mediation amounts to a pardon for both parties for rule infractions. Go to artibration and chances are rules have been broken, sometimes by both parties. Right now most of the arbitrators aren't really hanging judges, but that will change when someone comes back and back and back to us.
This is a useful observation.
Ec