Legal liability of mediators

Abstract

The aim of the research is to identify possible gaps in the regulation of the legal liability of mediators and parties to the mediation process. The research methodology involved the use of dialectical, formal-legal, and comparative legal methods, as well as techniques of analysis and synthesis, deduction and induction, philosophical laws of unity and struggle of opposites, denial of negation, and others. In the main content, the legal liability of mediators is analyzed from the perspective of its positive and negative components, and the legal character of various manifestations of the legal liability of mediators and their place in the modern system of legal liability is identified. Significant attention is paid to the positive liability of mediators and its legal character is justified. In conclusion it is clarified that the institution of mediation as a whole and the legal liability of mediators in Russia are in the process of formation. It is proven that the legal liability of mediators has a public-law rather than a private-law character. Legal gaps in the regulation of the legal liability of mediators, as well as other parties to the mediation process, are identified, and ways to eliminate them are proposed.