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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