Conciliation

• What is conciliation?

  A conciliator is used to help to resolve disputes but plays a more active role than a mediator
• Advantages

  • Cheaper than other forms of legal action
  • Private
  • Good success rate
• Disadvantages

  • May not lead to a settlement and then parties may have to litigate anyway
  • Can put pressure on claimants to settle in employment cases and mean they might accept a lesser settlement than a tribunal would award