Brazil Business Mediation Congress: Changing the Way Brazil Resolves Conflict, CPR, 2013

On April 29,2013, CPR in association with Camarb and Pro-Acordo/Parceiros Brasil sponsered the first Brazil Business Mediation Congress in Rio de Janeiro at the auditorium of FGV DIREITO RIO. The objective of the Congress was to raise awareness in Brazil as to the availability and suitability of mediation as a method of resolving disputes. Shell, Ambev, GlaxoSmith Kline,  Swiss Re, Pinheiro Neto, Sergio Bermudes were among the supports of the event. Please read more about this successful Congress at
http://www.cpradr.org/AcrossBorders/BrazilCongress.aspx or Click  below to read an article in Portuguese. 

Public Notary Clerks to be mediators in Brazil?

Public Notary in Brazil is an office with powers  to certify documents, signatures, declarations as well as to retain contracts and wills for safekeeping. A tradition that continues to modern life. Now the Department for Internal Affairs of Justice in São Paulo wants the Notary Offices to be mediators too. The Bill (Provimento 17/2013) allows the Notary Public Servants to mediate, as if mediation is something to be bought over the counter. The São Paulo Bar Association has made a legal request asking to revoke this decision. Although it has been finally suspended, final decision is still pending. This Bill shows that mediation is still considered as something very trivial by authorities. Click read more to see topics in Portuguese.