Divorce mediation participants report far higher fairness satisfaction than court litigants do.

Evidence

Legal scholars have attempted to answer that question by surveying disputants’ views about the fairness of the process and outcomes under ADR.*? Their surveys reveal widespread satisfaction with how disputes were handled and resolved. The responses are particularly striking when compared with litigants’ evaluations of court processes. In divorce mediation, for example, in which participants were involved both with courts and with mediation, 98 percent of those who had success in mediation / expressed satisfaction with the process, as did 57 percent of those who s . — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 2373

Categorization

• DEFINE: Concrete data point for the procedural-justice measure: disputant satisfaction as the yardstick for comparing ADR and adjudication.
• XREF: connects to: State courts collectively deliver more equal justice than the U.S. Supreme Court does — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 3267

Broader Connections

• State courts collectively deliver more equal justice than the U.S. Supreme Court does #complicates (0.85) — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 3267