"EARLY intervention is the key to ensuring factors carry out vital repairs to prevent properties deteriorating through owners defaulting on payments."
"Mr McColl added that his sector also wanted to see an alternative dispute resolution system in place because the current arrangement was complex and expensive."
"NHS bodies will have a legal duty to encourage patients to give feedback or comments about their treatment. Ministers may also give directions to NHS organisations about the use of conciliation or mediation to try to resolve any complaints."
"His comments come as the organisation prepares to enter mediation with track contractor Bilfinger Berger to resolve a dispute over costs."
"In response to continuing criticism from both the Standards Commission and Audit Scotland, battling elected members are being asked to embrace mediation and settle their differences before launching into official complaints against each other."
"Police, politicians, teachers and rehabilitation workers discuss how bringing criminals face to face with their victims can prevent reoffending."
"The announcement of a national scheme for Scotland to protect tenants' deposits and provide Alternative Dispute Resolution for the Private Rented Sector has been welcomed by The Tenancy Deposit Scheme, TDS. The Scheme has offered to provide assi...
"The Scottish Government has said that options and costs for establishing an Alternative Dispute Resolution scheme, including the possibility of establishing a Tenancy Deposit Scheme to deal with tenancy deposits, are to be finalised by this summer.&...
"Consultant Ian Chapman, a lecturer in restorative justice at Ulster University, presented the Grampian Police statistics as part of his 2008 Moray Youth Justice report."