Simed-Italia

PRESIDENTE
Prof. Avv. Cesare Mirabelli

PRESIDENTE
ONORARIO
Sir Anthony Colman

VICE
PRESIDENTE
Avv. Prof. Michele de Meo

COMITATO
D’ONORE
Avv. Thierry Garby

CONSIGLIO
DIRETTIVO
Prof. Avv. Cesare Mirabelli
Avv. Prof. Michele de Meo
Prof. Not. Gennaro Mariconda
Avv. Saly Valobra
Avv. Fioravante Carletti
Avv. Alessandro Bruni

COMITATO
SCIENTIFICO
Prof. Pietro Rescigno
Prof. Avv. Diego Corapi
Pres. Michele Cantillo
Prof. Avv. Lorenzo d'Avack
Prof. Avv. Karl Mackie
Prof. Avv. Piero Sandulli
Prof. Avv. Giovanni Verde
Prof. Avv. Ugo Villani
Prof. Avv. Giovanni Arieta
Prof. Avv. Roberto Pardolesi
Prof. Avv. Aldo Berlinguer

REVISORI DEI CONTI
- Presidente -
Dott. Vincenzo Casiero
- Effettivi -
Dott. Roberto Bellei
Dott.ssa Maria Rosaria Leccese

SEGRETARIATO
Avv. Giuseppe Comunale
Avv. Rosaria Pugliese

Rome, 20th May 2008

The Italian Society for the Mediation of Disputes (SIMED) is an association created in 2001, with the purpose of promoting the use of conciliatory mediation in all disputes, both in civil society and in businesses.

Using conciliatory mediation, disputes can be solved rapidly (about 100 days), in a not expensive way (because of a very rapid procedure, without charges or other costs) and litigants can maintain a friendly relationship with this technique, unlike using judicial or moderatorial procedures. As a result of mediation, an agreement is signed between litigants, in order to regulate to a further level their mutual rights and duties.

The mediation brings to an agreement between litigants, who willingly solve the dispute through the intervention of a “mediator”. The mediator is a third party, who is remunerated by the clients exclusively to help them to find an appropriate solution for their interests, and not to determine the rightness of their position from a legal point of view.

The “ Italian Society for the Mediation of Disputes”:

• It has been proposed to its founder, Professor Michele de Meo, lawyer in Rome, by Sir Anthony Colman, commercial Judge at the High Court of London;
• It has been created and regulated by Professor Gennaro Mariconda, notary public in Rome;
• It is chaired, since its foundation, by professor Cesare Mirabelli, Emeritus president of the Italian Constitutional Court;
• Since January 2007, it includes about 200 partners, prevalently lawyers, holding Italian, Greek, Russian, Ukraine, German, French, and Belgian nationality;
• It is directed by the Executive Council listed on this headed notepaper;
• It is guided and oriented by a Scientific Committee, constituted by eminent Professors and Judges, listed on this headed notepaper.

From 2004 to 2006, SIMED and professor Alexander Komarov, of the international Commerce Court of Arbitration of Russian Federation, exchanged reports and studies about mediation of disputes, in order to contribute to the improvement of mediation in both countries of origin.

At the end of this period of study, in 2006, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Russian Federation, has created a firm for international mediation on its own, directed and chaired by Lawyer Alla V. Bolshova, President of the Court of Arbitration in Moscow. Furthermore, it has elaborated a set of rules for mediation and has chosen an own group of mediators.

In the same year 2006, the chamber of Commerce and Industry of Russian Federation, has signed with SIMED a cooperation agreement [ photo link ]. Then a joint group of international mediators for Russian-Italian disputes has been created: in this link, you will find the list of mediators in alphabetical order.

In March 2007, within the cooperation agreement, the joint activity of the "Russian section for mediation" and the Italian Society for the mediation of Disputes has been presented for the first time in Italy. The presentation aims at inform businessmen and their advisor about the fact that disputes can be solved not only through judicial or moderatorial procedures and their following phases, but also more effectively, through conciliatory mediation. It provides a solution in accordance with concrete interests, not with law principles, which sometimes are not refarable to the specific case or difficult to apply, due to geographical, cultural and legislative differences.

Avv. Prof. Michele de Meo         
SIMED                            

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More information is available on the Italian Web Site of SIMED