User:Wer900/Policy Reform I/Dispute resolution boards

Wherever on the encyclopedia there is a serious and otherwise intractable dispute, a dispute resolution board shall be convened. This board shall be tasked with providing all necessary remedies required in order to settle a given case before it. Dispute resolution boards are ad-hoc; once the dispute they are faced with has been resolved, the board will be dissolved effective immediately. If an issue has not been resolved, or if either involved party petitions to do so and the petition is accepted, the case shall be appealed to the Arbitration Committee, a situation which will also result in the dissolution of the dispute resolution board.

A dispute resolution board shall have jurisdiction to resolve all disputes where reasonable attempts were made to resolve the dispute in other means, such as through talk-page discussion or the use of bodies like the Mediation Cabal. In addition, dispute resolution boards shall hold original jurisdiction over all cases where abuse of administrative powers are involved, and where the users involved have already made all reasonable attempts to resolve the dispute informally. Once enough evidence, as determined by an administrator, is demonstrated under the reasonable attempt test in order to begin a case, a dispute resolution board consisting of one previously uninvolved administrator and twelve randomly selected, non-administrator autoconfirmed users without an unrevoked block in the past six months, shall be convened.

The presiding administrator shall be permitted to issue all temporary injunctions necessary to prevent further disruption of the encyclopedia which do not impede the ability of any involved user to participate in the case. The non-administrative jury shall be tasked with determining by consensus which remedies are required, with the decision ultimately being ratified by the administrator. Should the decision of the jury not be ratified by the administrator, the administrator must decide whether to ask the jury to modify the remedies which have been prescribed, or to appeal the case to the Arbitration Committee. Alternatively, the jury may override the veto of an administrator by a unanimous vote along with the achievement of consensus.

The powers of the Arbitration Committee shall remain unchanged, except to permit the Arbitration Committee to accept or request a motion for appeal at its discretion. Should the Arbitration Committee reject a request for appeal brought by an administrator presiding over a dispute resolution board, the remedies drawn up by the jury shall remain in place. Should a motion brought by a party to the case be rejected, the decision of the original dispute resolution board shall hold. Before accepting or rejecting a request for appeal, the Arbitration Committee should look at all of the evidence which has been presented and make its decision based on whether the remedies were unsatisfactory, or whether there is an important legal principle applying to the case.