Illinois · statute · 710 ILCS 20 · 7 active provisions
The General Assembly finds that the resolution of certain disputes can be costly and time-consuming in the context of a formal judicial proceeding; and that mediation of disputes has a great potential for efficiently reducing the volume of matters which burden the court system in this State; and that unresolved dispute…
This Act shall be known and may be cited as the Illinois Not-For-Profit Dispute Resolution Center Act. (Source: P.A. 85-756.)
As used in this Act: (a) "Dispute resolution center" means a not-for-profit organization which is exempt from the payment of federal income tax pursuant to Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and which is organized to provide mediation services, including but not limited to mediation services provided at no…
(a) In judicial circuits which include a county with a population of over 2,000,000 inhabitants, a dispute resolution fund shall be established. (b) In any other judicial circuit a dispute resolution fund shall be established upon a finding by the Chief Judge of the circuit that: (1) a dispute resolution center would s…
(a) Subject to the supervisory authority of the Supreme Court, the Chief Judge of each judicial circuit in which a dispute resolution fund has been established shall annually make grant disbursements from the fund to dispute resolution centers within the judicial circuit which meet the criteria in Section 4 of this Act…
(a) Subject to the supervisory authority of the Supreme Court, the Chief Judge of each judicial circuit in which a dispute resolution fund has been established shall make rules pertaining to the operation and standards to be adhered to by dispute resolution centers in that judicial circuit in order to qualify for fundi…
All memoranda, work products, or case files of a qualified dispute resolution center and its mediators shall be confidential and shall not be subject to discovery or other disclosure in any judicial or administrative proceeding. Any communication made during the resolution process by any participant, mediator, or any o…