Niranjan J. Bhatt is a senior advocate in Ahmedabad. He is the founder and the Managing Trustee of the Institute for Arbitration Mediation Legal Education and Development (AMLEAD) and a Convener of the Ahmedabad Mediation Centre, the first lawyers run Mediation Centre of India. Mr. Bhatt received advance mediation training from Harvard Law School PIL Programme and was a member of Indo-US Central Study Team. The author acknowledges the contribution of information about mediation process and importance of mediation training by Mr. Gregg F. Relyea a reputed mediator and an international mediation trainer from San Diego, California, US and assistance by Mr. Himanshu Trivedi, Advocate, Mediator and a Trustee of AMLEAD.This paper was presented by the author at fourth Indo-Us legal forum meet at US SUPREME COURT on Oct 15,2002.
