The chairman of the Mediators Association of Georgia - Irakli Kandashvili and the project manager of the Rule of Law of the United Nations Development Program - Levan Asatiani welcomed the participants.
Ana Khurtsidze, a member of the executive board of the Mediators Association of Georgia, a mediator, a non-lawyer member of the Ethics Commission of the Association of Lawyers, was also specially invited to the meeting to talk about the issues of lawyer's ethics in the mediation process.
At the meeting, Ana Khurtsidze shared her experience and challenges in practice with the members of the Bar Association.
Irakli Kandashvili spoke about mediation and noted that it is very important for lawyers to have thorough knowledge of the mediation process.
There was a lot of interest from lawyers at the meeting, many interesting questions were asked.
Mediators Association of Georgia will often hold such meetings, because the awareness of lawyers regarding the mediation process is very important and contributes to the raising of awareness about mediation in the society.
The event/activity was implemented with the support of the United Nations Development Program and Germany, within the framework of the project "Improving access to the rule of law and justice for all".
