This report provides recommendations for the continued development of ADR processes in Michigan trial courts. It includes recommendations for integrating DR processes in the trial courts and for new and amended court rules, guidelines, standards and statutes. Among its recommendations are: to give mediators acting under the appointment or qualification of a court the status of quasi-judicial immunity from suit; to make ADR processes available both pre-filing and throughout the course of litigation; to monitor ADR programs and services; and to adopt a court rule assuring the confidentiality of ADR processes.
Michigan Supreme Court Dispute Resolution Task Force Report to the Michigan Supreme Court
Michigan Supreme Court Dispute Resolution Task Force. Jan. 1, 1999http://courts.michigan.gov/scao/resources/publications/reports/cdrpreport.pdf