MoJ pushes for increased take-up of mediation with £10m budget injection

MoJ pushes for increased take-up of mediation with £10m budget injection

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) will add £10m to the UK's publicly funded mediation budget next year as part of an effort to promote the use of mediation over litigation.

According to the MoJ's 2010-11 annual report, an extra £10m will be added to the mediation budget as of April 2012, taking the total allocated amount to £24m. The MoJ has spent an annual total of £14m on publicly funded mediation every year since 2008.

An MoJ spokesperson said: "Research shows that mediation can cost a quarter of the price and take a quarter of the time of going to court".

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