“…Fears exist that civil justice in the traditional, adversarial sense will be undermined by locating a dispute resolution process such as mediation within it, thus removing the scope for argument in open court and jurisprudence to emerge from civil cases (Bird, 2017;Clark, 2012;Zuckerman, 2020). Fears focused on loss of fees for disputants' lawyers presenting cases in the civil courts, sit alongside the uncertain effect on civil justice funding, historically from the public purse but increasingly funded by process fees charged to the parties (Combe, 2020). Only in low-value cases are courts required by law to consider 'alternative dispute resolution' (a term which is not defined) before allowing a case to move to evidential hearing.…”