Contextual Ethics By Professor Rachael Field

Contextual ethics is an alternative ethical approach to mediation that is argued for by Professor Rachael Field. Broadly construed, contextual ethics refers to ethical approaches that are not founded on universal rules. Instead, it requires the ethical agent to consider and analyse the context of the situation at hand before arriving at a decision that is ethically justifiable. It is argued to be compatible with the nature of mediation where the core value of party self-determination makes a rule-based ethics approach
inappropriate.