Equity and Mediation: Affinities and Disjunctures

Abstract

The authors and Professor Denis SK Ong were colleagues at the Bond University Law School. Given their different areas of interest they did not collaborate on intellectual and academic matters. It is, however, to the regret of the current authors that they never discussed the subject of this contribution, namely the relationship between mediation, and other forms of dispute resolution (DR), on one hand and equity and its principles, on the other. This is regrettable as Denis’s scholarship and erudition on the topic would have led to a fruitful discussion. This article is written in honour of Professor Ong and his innumerable achievements in many fields of academic life.