MEDIATION AS AN EFFECTIVE MECHANISM FOR PRE-TRIAL SETTLEMENT OF LAND DISPUTES
Analysis of the Russian legislation and judicial practice in the sphere of land property relations, in terms of land disputes, the peculiarities of their origin and resolution on the present stage of development of land and property relations suggests that urgent and effective intervention to reduce the workload of the judicial system is the application and development of alternative dispute resolution. Such a mechanism for pre-trial settlement of land disputes is the mediation procedure, which has not yet found such wide distribution in Russia as in foreign countries. The experience of European States shows the importance of the institution of mediation in the pre-trial settlement of conflicts with the participation of a neutral mediator. Russia has the potential for the development of mediation, but its effective functioning requires the support of the state, expressed in additional economic, legal and organizational measures. Based on the fact that the institution of mediation has existed in Russia for a relatively short time, a competent decision when choosing the direction of mediation development will be a preliminary analysis of the experience of European States, where alternative ways of resolving conflicts have taken the most stable form and high efficiency.