Mediacijos taikymas ikiteisminio administracinių ginčų nagrinėjimo stadijoje: prielaidos ir sąlygos taikesniam procesui ; Application of Out-Of-Court Mediation in Pre-Trial Administrative Disputes Resolution: Assumptions and Conditions for a More Peaceful Process
A new wording of the Law on Mediation of the Republic of Lithuania was adopted on 11 June 2020 and will come into the force from the 1 January 2021. New legal regulation creates a basis for applying out-of-court mediation in administrative disputes. The provisions of the Law on Pre-trial Administrative Disputes, which detail the provisions of the Law on Mediation and their implementation in the pre-trial stage of administrative dispute resolution, have also been adopted. The aim of the article is to analyze the most important preconditions and conditions for the application of out-of-court mediation in administrative disputes and the legal factors influencing the development of this institute in administrative justice. The paper briefly reviews the peculiarities of the application of mediation in administrative cases and the new legal regulation of the out-of-court mediation applicable in the pre-trial stage of the administrative process.