Mediation as a tool for the settlement of civil legal disputes

Abstract

The general types of alternative methods of regulation of civil disputes are considered in the article. The authors, giving examples of types of civil disputes among natural persons and legal entities in particular, consider on conciliation procedure of mediation. The sphere of application of the mediation in foreign countries, its positive aspects are given and outstanding moments of the domestic legislation are considered. New approaches to the research of this problem are expressed by the authors in the formulated theoretical positions,also in the proposals to improvement of the legislation.