Queensland Consolidated Acts

MAGISTRATES COURTS ACT 1921 - SECT 21

The objects of this part are—

(a) to provide an opportunity for litigants to participate in ADR processes in order to achieve negotiated settlements and satisfactory resolutions of disputes; and

(b) to introduce ADR processes into the court system to improve access to justice for litigants and to reduce cost and delay; and

(c) to provide a legislative framework allowing ADR processes to be conducted as quickly, and with as little formality and technicality, as possible; and

(d) to safeguard ADR processes—

(i) by ensuring they remain confidential; and

(ii) by extending the same protection to participants in an ADR process they would have if the dispute were before a Magistrates Court.