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the cancellation or suspension of almost half of the mediation bodies” 10 .
There is no national organization of mediators.
7 . THE JUDICIARY
When compulsory mediation came into force in 2011, judges did not
take a stand against it, but in practice they did not use the opportunity pro-
vided by the law. But a small portion of the Italian judiciary began to look
carefully at mediation and its possible use. I mainly refer to:
- “Progetto Conciliamo”, started in 2005 at the Court of Milan ;
- “Progetto Nausicaa”, started in 2010 at the Court of Florence ;
both projects focused on the analysis of mediation and aimed at im-
proving the knowledge of mediation among legal professionals ;
- the “integrated” conciliatory practices started in 2011 at the Court
of Modugno-Bari
- the experience of the Court of Ostia, a separate division of the Court
of Rome, whose leader, Judge Massimo Moriconi, acted as a pioneer in the
field of mediation. Thanks to an extensive use of invitation to mediation in
the 2012 – 2013 period, Judge Moriconi achieved a reduction of at least 10%
of the disputes entrusted to him 11 .
Which method did he use? The magistrate analyzed all incoming ca-
ses and, whenever he believed that the parties could reach a settlement, he in-
vited them to undergo a mediation proceeding. Moral suasion was effective.
According to Legislative Decree no. 28/2010 mediation could also
start at the invitation of the judge (delegated mediation).
Moreover, Legislative Decree no. 69/2013 established:
- the possibility for judges (since June 2013) to make a solution pro-
posal based on equity (ex art. 185-bis civil procedure code) in all subjects
related to alienable civil rights, which the parties were free to accept or refuse
(not binding arbitration);
- the possibility for judges (since September 2013) to order litigants to
10 Ministero della Giustizia, Direzione Generale della Giustizia civile : nel 2016 c’erano 1.050 organismi iscritti; tra il 2014
ed il 2016 “un quarto degli organismi è stato cancellato. .. il numero di organismi cancellati è stato superiore di quasi sette
volte quello dei nuovi organismi iscritti. .. le ispezioni di controllo effettuate –pari a 125- hanno condotto alla cancellazione
o la sospensione di quasi la metà degli organismi di mediazione”, in Commissione di studio per l’elaborazione di ipotesi
di organica disciplina e riforma degli strumenti di degiurisdizionalizzazione, con particolare riguardo alla mediazione, alla
negoziazione assistita e all’arbitrato (Pres. ALPA), page 151, 2017 . The trans-
lation into English of this provision is mine.
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