Businesses encouraged to use mediation in disputes
Rwandan judiciary wants to popularise mediation as a mechanism for resolving commercial disputes in the country, the Chief Justice Sam Rugege said.
“We have been trying mediation in the last five years, but litigants and lawyers have in many cases underutilised it probably because judges, lawyers and registrars did not have adequate skills in modern mediation,” Prof Rugege said.
The group of 30 who at the end of this training, the project will support in screening cases that are appropriate for mediation and organizing mediation sessions by judges. Kelly Rwamapera