ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION

Alternative Dispute Resolution



Alternative Dispute Resolution

Introduction

It was in 1960s that the alternative dispute resolution was put into use in the American society. The Civil Rights Movement in 1964 provided an impetus to the cause of implementation of ADR for commercial disputes. After that period, the Supreme Court and other statuary courts of the United States were overburdened with the huge number of commercial lawsuits; forcing unprecedented delays in the promulgation of decisions. This was the prime reason, why parties faced up with commercial disputes opted for the need of an alternative system and mechanism of dispute resolution. In the ...