The accreditation system is designed:

• to safeguard the minimum professional standard of mediation practice in Hong Kong;
• to encourage the public to utilise our members' mediation services ; and
• to encourage our members to advance their mediation skills.

To achieve consistency in the procedure and standard of mediation practice, the Society has modelled its documentation (relating to the procedures for accreditation of mediators, the mediator accreditation assessment forms, CPD criteria, criteria for accreditation of mediation training, general ethical code, guidelines for professional practice of family mediators and guidelines for supervision of trainee mediators) on the relevant documentation of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre*.

Solicitors who are not accredited under the Mediator Accreditation Scheme are not barred from working in mediation. However, being accredited demonstrates that the solicitors' skills, knowledge and experience in mediation have been independently assessed to have maintained a given level of competence. The accredited mediators are also regulated by an Ethical Code for Mediators and a Code of Practice.