Practice question · Sort into groups
Sort each route by the way it resolves a dispute.
Groups: Autocomposition · Heterocomposition · Prohibited self-help
- Forced goods seizure
- Direct negotiation
- Court judgment
- Mediated agreement
- Binding arbitration
- Self-help lock eviction
Hints
- Ask in each case who actually makes the decision that ends the dispute.
- A third party who only facilitates does not make the route heterocompositive.
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Autocomposition: Direct negotiation, Mediated agreement
Heterocomposition: Binding arbitration, Court judgment
Prohibited self-help: Forced goods seizure, Self-help lock eviction
Why
The mediator is the item that decides whether you have understood the distinction. A third person is present, active and often decisive in practice, and still the parties are the ones who decide, which puts mediation in the first column beside plain negotiation rather than beside arbitration.
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