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Originally from Alternatives to the High Cost of Litigation

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Lithuania’s courts brought mediation to the country in 2005, when a pilot project for court mediation, inspired by the Quebec City courts in Canada, was launched. Agnė, Tvaronavičienė, Natalija Kaminskienė, Dana Rone, & Rea Uudeküll, “Mediation in the Baltic States: Developments and Challenges of implementation,” 4 (16) Access to Justice in Eastern Europe 68 (2022)

The project evolved into a country-wide court mediation institute, and, by 2014, court mediation was applied in all Lithuanian courts, governed by rules enabling judges to be court mediators. Agnė Tvaronavičienė, Natalija Kaminskienė, Irena Žemaitaitytė & Maria Cudowska, “Towards More Sustainable Dispute Resolution in Courts: Empirical Study on Challenges of the Court-connected Mediation in Lithuania,” 8(3) Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Issues 633 (2021)

Mediation, however, was not widely used outside the courts. While the 2008 Law on Conciliation Mediation (Law of the Republic of Lithuania on Conciliation 2008, No. X-1702  was enacted to transpose the European Union Mediation Directive, the transposed law was not modified to facilitate its use in the Lithuanian legal system.