Conference on Consumers and Alternative Dispute Resolution

19.03.2019

The Center for Socio-Legal Studies of the University of Oxford organised a two-day Conference from 18–19 March 2019 in Oxford (UK), which dealt with current issues of the relationship between Consumers and Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR). As part of the event, the ELI-European Networks of Councils for the Judiciary (ENCJ) Statement on ‘The Principled Relationship of Formal and Informal Justice through the Courts and Alternative Dispute Resolution’ was presented.

The main focus of the Conference was to discuss ways in which ADR can offer consumers a higher degree of fairness and justice, as well as the role of companies and regulators in the field.

The output of the ELI-ENCJ’s project on the Relationship between Courts and ADR was presented by one of the project’s Reporters (also former ELI President), Diana Wallis. Wallis also chaired a panel on the New Developments in Consumer ADR.

The program of the Conference is available here.

The ELI Statement on the Principled Relationship of Formal and Informal Justice through the Courts and Alternative Dispute Resolution can be accessed freely on the ELI’s website.