Instead of using the words "inadmissible
evidence" I
could have said,
"during arbitration the users shouldn't be able to
drag in everything
that
happened during mediation", but the short phrase
(from
law, after all I
was
a lawyer) serves. It doesn't imply all the bullshit
that goes with
formal
court proceedings, after all we are talking about
mediation followed by
arbitration for participants in a voluntary
cooperative effort.
Nevertheless
it is useful to use short hand exppressions which
represent events or
things
which otherwise have to be spelled out at length.
Having to reinvent a
new
language for our particular proceeding would be quite
burdensome
although we
probably will develop some language unique to our
situation.
I wasn't talking about semantics, it's just that when
you start bringing in formalities like making people
redo their entire testemony in arbitration that they
already did in mediation, it makes the whole thing a
lot less efficient.
LDan
Fred
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