The Private Law Branch at the College of Law at the University of Baghdad held a scientific symposium entitled (Compulsory Mediation), and the symposium was chaired by Prof. Dr. Akram Muhammad Hussein, and delivered by the lecturer in the Private Law Branch, Prof. Dr. Haider Falih Hassan, in the presence of a number of students and staff of the college, on Thursday 05/2023 25/ on the conference hall in the college.
The symposium aims to shed light on compulsory mediation as a newly emerging experience that many countries of the world have applied as an experiment regarding certain disputes, and then to show the extent to which the Iraqi legislator can adopt it.
The symposium included several axes, the most important of which is what is compulsory mediation, what are the justifications for resorting to it, what are its advantages and disadvantages, and how can it be distinguished from other alternative means of dispute settlement.
The symposium came out with several recommendations, including calling on the Iraqi legislator to adopt this type of mediation, after examining the experiences of the countries that have adopted it in order to reduce the momentum of lawsuits before the courts, provided that specialized bodies are formed to carry out this mediation in light of the lawsuits that will be identified.
