{"id":9678,"date":"2021-10-09T08:07:39","date_gmt":"2021-10-09T06:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.inkovema.de\/?p=9678"},"modified":"2025-08-05T09:07:27","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T07:07:27","slug":"liability-in-mediation-in-conversation-with-prof-dr-thomas-riehm-inkovema-podcast-57","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.inkovema.de\/en\/blog\/liability-in-mediation-in-conversation-with-prof-dr-thomas-riehm-inkovema-podcast-57\/","title":{"rendered":"Liability in mediation. In conversation with Prof Dr Thomas Riehm (INKOVEMA podcast #57)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container gradient-container-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1144px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-1 sep-underline sep-solid fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-four\"><h4 class=\"fusion-title-heading title-heading-left fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" style=\"margin:0;--fontSize:16;--minFontSize:16;line-height:1.5;\"><h4>INKOVEMA Podcast &#8222;Well through time&#8220;<\/h4><\/h4><\/div><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-2 sep-underline sep-solid fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-one\"><h1 class=\"fusion-title-heading title-heading-left fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" style=\"margin:0;--fontSize:34;line-height:1.4;\"><h1>#57 &#8211; Liability in mediation<\/h1><\/h1><\/div><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-3 sep-underline sep-solid fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-three\"><h3 class=\"fusion-title-heading title-heading-left fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" style=\"margin:0;--fontSize:20;line-height:1.5;\"><h2>What are mediators (as opposed to lawyers) liable for &#8211; and how can they deal with this in practice? In conversation with Prof Dr Thomas Riehm<\/h2><\/h3><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>Well through time. The podcast about mediation, conflict coaching and organisational consulting.<\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:20px;margin-bottom:20px;width:100%;\"><div class=\"fusion-separator-border sep-single\" style=\"--awb-height:20px;--awb-amount:20px;--awb-sep-color:#ffffff;border-color:#ffffff;border-top-width:1px;\"><\/div><\/div><script class=\"podigee-podcast-player\" src=\"https:\/\/player.podigee-cdn.net\/podcast-player\/javascripts\/podigee-podcast-player.js\" data-configuration=\"https:\/\/inkovema.podigee.io\/57-57-haftung-in-der-mediation-im-gesprach-mit-prof-dr-thomas-riehm\/embed?context=external\"><\/script><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:20px;margin-bottom:20px;width:100%;\"><div class=\"fusion-separator-border sep-single\" style=\"--awb-height:20px;--awb-amount:20px;--awb-sep-color:#ffffff;border-color:#ffffff;border-top-width:1px;\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2\"><p><strong>Prof Dr Thomas Riehm.<\/strong>Professor of German and European Private Law, Civil Procedure Law and Legal Theory, University of Passau.<\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:20px;margin-bottom:20px;width:100%;\"><div class=\"fusion-separator-border sep-single\" style=\"--awb-height:20px;--awb-amount:20px;--awb-sep-color:#ffffff;border-color:#ffffff;border-top-width:1px;\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-3\"><h2><strong>Contents<\/strong><\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Liability in civil law means that you are liable for damage that you have caused...In mediation, liability for mediative activities is very unlikely because between mediative activities and the occurrence of damage there is usually an independent activity on the part of the conflict party that causes the damage.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Liability = breach of duty + causal damage<\/li>\n<li>Case studies for causalities between breach of duty and occurrence of damage.<\/li>\n<li>Proof of causality between a breach of duty and damage.<\/li>\n<li>Federal Court of Justice (2017) on the liability of mediators<em>and lawyers<\/em>inside: Mediation activities are not subject to the liability of lawyers.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a7 Section 4 RDG &#8211; Legal advice is only subject to those professionals who are authorised by the state to provide legal advice &#8211;.<\/li>\n<li>Contractual limitations of liability for mediators<\/li>\n<li>What should you do if you have caused damage through a breach of duty?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Literature<\/strong>:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>Riehm, Thomas:<\/strong> <\/em>The liability of mediators - sword of Damocles over the flipchart?, in: ZKM 2019, 120-128.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>BGH v. 21.9.2017<\/strong><\/em> - IX ZR 34\/17, MDR 2017, 1331 = NJW 2017, 3442 = ZKM 2018, 29<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[314,42,97],"tags":[712,711,715,716,713,714],"class_list":["post-9678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inkovema-podcast","category-podcast","category-recht-der-mediation","tag-bundesgerichtshof","tag-haftung","tag-pflichtverletzung","tag-schaden","tag-zivilrecht","tag-zivilverfahrensrecht"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.inkovema.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.inkovema.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.inkovema.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.inkovema.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.inkovema.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.inkovema.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.inkovema.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.inkovema.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.inkovema.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.inkovema.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}