Introduction to Mediation in Malaysia

Authors

  • Shanti Abraham Shanti Abraham & Associates

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.52028/rbadr.v5i9.ART06

Abstract

Mediation has been in Malaysia as a modern problem-solving mechanism for over twenty years. Mediation has found its way into many industries in Malaysia. Institutions have been established to train mediators and to also facilitate the registration of cases for mediation and appointment of mediators. Malaysia is one of the first in the region to have a Mediation Act and features interesting clauses including immunity for trained mediators. Apart from court-annexed mediation which often is carried out in the absence of lawyers, private ad hoc or institutional mediation is also part of the Malaysian mediation landscape and lawyers generally have a larger and more important role in first designing a mediation overture and then supporting their client to conclusion.

Author Biography

Shanti Abraham, Shanti Abraham & Associates

Litigator, counsel in appropriate dispute resolution, arbitrator, adjudicator, and founder of Shanti Abraham & Associates. She is also an international mediator, certified by SIMI and IMI. Shanti is empanelled with various mediation centres including the Singapore Mediation Centre, the Malaysian International Mediation Centre, the AAA-ICDR, the ADGM Arbitration Centre, the Global Mediation Panel at the Office of the Ombudsman for UN Funds and Programmes and the Singapore International Mediation Centre. A fervent advocate of mediation thought leadership, she is acting as the Chairperson of the International Mediation Institute – Investor State Mediation Taskforce. She is also currently part of the Malaysian government’s working group to revamp domestic legislation and the ratification of the Singapore Convention on Mediation.

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Published

2023-12-28

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Vol. 5 No. 9 (2023): Jan./Jun.

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