Thank you to those who responded to my post Promoting Personal Injury Mediation. As promised I sent my proposals to the Alternative Dispute Resolution Team at the Ministry of Justice and have recently had a response. The committee agreed with my observation that the Allocation Questionnaire form could be revised given the way in which the purpose of the form can be circumvented by certain answers being given.
Amending the forms would be simple but introducing a standard ADR order problematic as it would require wide consultation with the judiciary to agree the wording of the order and court IT systems would need to be altered at great expense. All forms and leaflets are currently being considered by the MoJ and my comments and suggestions will be forwarded to the relevant group.
