The COVID-19 crisis has caused the socio-economic scenario to change. The indebtedness of families, the self-employed and businesses will mean that many of them will not be able to assume the monetary obligations acquired, with the consequent filing of thousands of legal claims by financial entities and banks against their clients.
This will mean an avalanche of requirements that will collapse the different types of courts. Socially due to massive layoffs; in civil courts for matters such as evictions, claims for amounts, requests for nullity of contracts; The contentious-administrative courts, for their part, will receive a flood of requests regarding claims for property liability of the state, for negligent actions of leaders, etc.
This is when agreement methods will have to be sought outside the judicial sphere. Of all of them, mediation is considered the most effective, since of the legal instruments it is the easiest to establish negotiations and agreements, and thus avoid the collapse of the judicial system.
WHAT SPECIALTIES CAN ADDRESS THESE PROBLEMS?
Mediation in Consumor that resolves problems that arise between consumers or end users and companies or professionals; the Labor Mediation that addresses conflicts such as non-payments, layoffs or vacation debts, among others; the Commercial Mediation that deals with situations related to the relationship between franchisor and franchisee, landlord and tenant or disagreements between suppliers and clients will become FUNDAMENTAL in the POST – COVID19 era
Others, like the Mediation in the Banking and Mortgage field, will also allow issues related to conflicts arising from the relationship between banks and consumers to be resolved outside the judicial sphere. Conflicts related to non-payments, floor clauses, IRPH, evictions or mortgage non-payments or even the relationship between owner and tenant.
While the Community Mediation It will be a KEY specialty to solve problems arising from the confinement period such as noise, smoke or use of common spaces and prevent neighborhood friction from ending in lawsuits.
