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16 verbatim mandatory provisions from 94-29-b.
Eighteenth Judicial Circuit. Check the order's own effective and rescission dates before relying on it. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
Verbatim from the order's own text layer, harvested 2026-07-24; whitespace normalised only. No OCR was used. Only sentences containing mandatory language (shall, must, may not, no later than, within N) are reproduced — the full document is in custody and is the controlling text. • The General Civil Mediation Coordinator (henceforth referred to as Mediation Coordinator) shall serve at the pleasure of the Chief Judge and under the Director of Mediation for Brevard County, Florida. 2. • The Mediation Coordinator shall keep a current list of the name and address of each person certified as a Mediator in the Eighteenth Judicial Circuit, together with the name of any mediation group or service in which such person is a member. 3. • The site of the mediation shall be scheduled either by the parties to the mediation in accordance with their Mediation Stipulation with the Mediation Coordinator being informed as to same, or the site shall be scheduled by the Mediation Coordinator in the event the parties are unable to agree upon a site in the Mediation Stipulation. 4. • The general procedure for each Circuit Judge ordering mediation shall be as follows: a. • The Circuit Judge shall send out an Order of Referral to Mediation to all counsel, with a copy to the Mediation Coordinator, directing the mediation occur within a certain time period. • This Order shall further direct the parties to either enter into a -- 1 of 4 -- Mediation Stipulation designating the Mediator, site of mediation and the date and time for the mediation; or in the event no such Stipulation can be achieved, then the attorney for the Plaintiff/Petitioner shall sign a Statement of No Agreement. • In either event, the attorney for the Plaintiff/Petitioner shall send the Mediation Stipulation/Statement of No Agreement to the Mediation Coordinator no later than twenty (20) days from the entry of the Order of Referral to Mediation. b. • The Mediation Coordinator shall forthwith prepare an Order for Mediation based on either the Mediation Stipulation or Statement of No Agreement; and in the latter circumstance, the Mediation Coordinator shall select a certified Mediator from the rotation list and confirm such selection with the Mediator. • The Mediation Coordinator shall set forth in the Order for Mediation the details of the mediation site, date and time, together with the name and address of the Mediator. • If the parties have stipulated to a Mediator, they shall be responsible for confirming with that Mediator his/her ability to act, and such confirmation shall be made prior to the Mediation Stipulation being furnished to the Mediation Coordinator. c. • The Mediation Coordinator shall forward to the Judicial Assistant of the ordering Judge the proposed Order for Mediation for entering and sending conformed copies to the Mediator and all parties. • The Mediation Coordinator shall present to the Clerk of Court the Mediation Stipulation/Statement of No Agreement for filing in the Court file. d. • The Mediation Coordinator shall maintain a rotation list of all Mediators alphabetized by surname, and selected on that basis, unless otherwise directed by the ordering Judge. • In the case of a Mediator selected by the Mediation Stipulation of the parties, the grouping of cases by the Mediation Coordinator shall not apply; however, the aforesaid success rate for that Mediator shall continue to be determined as herein provided. f. • The report of the Mediator following the Mediation Conference shall be filed with the Clerk of the Circuit Court with copies going to all parties, the ordering Judge and the Mediation Coordinator. g. • The Mediation Coordinator shall periodically advise all of the Circuit Judges in the Civil Division of the past settlement success rate of each Mediator, being the number of cases settled, in whole or in part, from the time mediation was ordered and to the trial as the numerator, with the denominator being the total number of all cases assigned by Order for Mediation to such Mediator.
The General Civil Mediation Coordinator (henceforth referred to as Mediation Coordinator) shall serve at the pleasure of the Chief Judge and under the Director of Mediation for Brevard County, Florida. 2.
Reviewer note: Document sha256: bc011e31af42a5a1a8aabd28c97996295877224a2586a2a4e4cecdc940e264d3 (65405 bytes). BenchPath harvested this circuit itself because no research corpus existed for it. Extraction is conservative: mandatory-language sentences only, so this rule is a faithful subset of the order, never a summary of it.
Judge Shull requires ALL motions set for special-set hearing to go to mediation before the hearing is held.
Judge Burkhart will not schedule a temporary-relief hearing until mediation has been held ON the temporary relief sought — mediation first, hearing second.
Judge Sharrit refers ALL cases to mediation (exceptions only by leave) and openly encourages Special Magistrates under Rule 1.490(b) to beat the hearing-time bottleneck.