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1,200% increase of Government use of ADR

Government use of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) has shot up by 1,200 per cent on the previous year.
The Department of Constitutional Affairs (DCA) report ‘Monitoring the effectiveness of the Government’s commitment to using ADR’ discloses that ADR was used in 617 Government disputes in 2002/2003 “an increase of over 1,200 per cent”. 89 per cent settled without recourse to a hearing.