Published on: Monday, March 08, 2021
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During this Covid-19 pandemic the government has set up Pusat Mediasi Covid-19 (“PMC-19) to deal with any contractual disputes as a result of the lockdown under the Prevention of disease Act. The PMC-19 offers free mediation to members of the public. Their mediation services can be accessed online via the following link.
Many people still do not know what is mediation and therefore do not know how to take advantage of this offer by the government. I will attempt to explain this process in layman terms.
Mediation is a process which is very different from the court process that we know. A mediator must complete a 40 hours course and pass the assessment before he or she can act as a mediator. Unlike a judge, a mediator does not decide or rule on a case. The mediator will help the parties to talk about their grievances and narrow down the issues. The mediator is not there to give legal advice or to impose any solutions on
Published on: Monday, March 08, 2021
Text Size:
During this Covid-19 pandemic the government has set up Pusat Mediasi Covid-19 (“PMC-19) to deal with any contractual disputes as a result of the lockdown under the Prevention of disease Act. The PMC-19 offers free mediation to members of the public. Their mediation services can be accessed online via the following link.
Many people still do not know what is mediation and therefore do not know how to take advantage of this offer by the government. I will attempt to explain this process in layman terms.
Mediation is a process which is very different from the court process that we know. A mediator must complete a 40 hours course and pass the assessment before he or she can act as a mediator. Unlike a judge, a mediator does not decide or rule on a case. The mediator will help the parties to talk about their grievances and narrow down the issues. The mediator is not there to give legal advice or to impose any solutions on
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KOTA KINABALU: The Sabah Law Society is drafting simplified legal mediation guides for the public on contractual disputes involving sums below RM300,000 based on the Temporary Measures for Reducing the Impact of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (Covid-19) Act 2020 that was passed by the Dewan Rakyat this week.
The Sabah Act provides for free mediation services to be dispensed to the public through the Pusat Mediasi Covid-19 (PMC-19), undertaken by the Sabah Law Society (SLS) here, its president Roger Chin said.
He said the Federal Government has provided a “substantial” grant to SLS to carry out such mediation for free, but the public was not fully aware of the services available as some terms might be steeped in too much legal jargon.