Hartley examines the introduction of alternative dispute resolution eg mediation in a court system in georgia attorneys supported the introduction of mediation to consolidate control of the legal process and to add it to their practices they also used mediation to settle some cases more quickly mediation gave judges flexibility to weed out minor cases and process others more quickly however these changes were not so great as to put a dent in settlement or trial rates and hartley . Hartley examines the introduction of alternative dispute resolution eg mediation in a court system in georgia attorneys supported the introduction of mediation to consolidate control of the legal process and to add it to their practices they also used mediation to settle some cases more quickly mediation gave judges flexibility to weed out minor cases and process others more quickly however these changes were not so great as to put a dent in settlement or trial rates . View alternative dispute resolution in civil justice systems from management 103 at islamic azad university central tehran branch tehran american legal institutions recent scholarship edited by. May 19931 alternative dispute resolution and civil justice renewed self consciousness about processes which are already there at the same time alternatives themselves are as much about devoting new energy and attention to familiar phases in dispute processes preceding the resort to judgment as about the emergence of novel modes these interventions converge upon three separate