adr-sml/docs/reference/adric-rules.md

ADRIC rules and codes — the published rule sets, in ADRIC's own words

Why this file exists. docs/01-architecture.md directs /mediation/ to name "ADRIC Model Mediation Rules" and /arbitration/ to name "ADRIC, ADR Chambers, ad hoc". A rule set's name is a fact about a published document, so under Q46(b)'s standard it may be published — but only from a source, not from recall. R14: a claim whose artefact is unreachable is unverifiable by construction. This is the same fetch-before-writing that caught Chartered Mediator-Arbitrator (docs/reference/adrio-designations.md).

It caught one immediately. See Finding 1.

Provenance

Retrieved	2026-08-28
Method	curl -sSL — redirects followed, exit status read, stderr not suppressed
Text extracts	docs/reference/adric-extract/, produced by the committed adrio-extract/extract.mjs (same script, unmodified)

URL	HTTP	bytes	text	sha256
https://adric.ca/rules-codes/	200	120908	4579	e7281b28e3d739f8d91985d5094fbdff7dea24e3a360d00ec32e387e32e9a1c9
https://adric.ca/rules-codes/national-mediation-rules/	200	110894	6130	c55fe482da8aa7a69377703b9192bda0d926f012e45a90ca5ce5d27a7b0344ac
https://adric.ca/rules-codes/arbrules/	200	122211	11004	07b9850f41bbf40f6ce3a3778876853091ac25a6bb255ef0c4b2827af69a937e
https://adric.ca/rules-codes/adric-med-arb-rules/	200	114700	8445	153479af8235022170b31c9673262f4e10a51e9f99fcffcb3e0c7dd23d037393

⚠️ THE HTML DIGESTS DRIFT ON EVERY REQUEST. THE TEXT EXTRACTS DO NOT. Unlike the ADRIO fetch, where the digests were stable and are therefore stamped as the artefact, these pages change per response. Measured, not assumed — the mediation-rules page was fetched twice, three minutes apart:

first : c55fe482da8aa7a69377703b9192bda0d926f012e45a90ca5ce5d27a7b0344ac
second: e9f74014ec04e8fcab0f1cbbd75ef4cb104c8d94992b93c832d41c8259ce78b2
text identical? YES

Four causes, read out of the diff rather than guessed at:

1. a per-render page-builder class suffix (highend_6a91df2f53035 → highend_6a91dfca9a8be);
2. a rotating corporate-member logo carousel in the footer — nine sponsor logos, reordered per request;
3. Cloudflare email obfuscation, which re-keys the email-protection#… hash per response;
4. a Cloudflare challenge-platform token (__CF$cv$params r and t).

(This paragraph first asserted "a WordPress nonce and rotating asset query strings" — a guess, written before the second fetch. None of the four causes is that. Corrected before commit, and recorded because a guessed cause for an observed difference is exactly what CLAUDE.md bars.)

So the stable artefact is docs/reference/adric-extract/, and the term counts below were run against those extracts. A digest mismatch on re-fetch is not evidence the content changed — re-extract and compare the text.

Also on the record: https://adric.ca/rules/ returns 403, and /mediation-rules/ and /arbitration-rules/ return 404. The working paths are all under /rules-codes/. Recorded because a 403 body is 52 bytes and reads like an empty page.

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Finding 1 — "ADRIC Model Mediation Rules" is NOT the name of anything

docs/01-architecture.md §/mediation/ item 3 directed the page to name the "ADRIC Model Mediation Rules". The string does not exist in ADRIC's materials.

Term	rules-codes	national-mediation-rules	arbrules	adric-med-arb-rules
Model Mediation Rules	0	0	0	0
National Mediation Rules	2	10	2	2
ADRIC Mediation Rules	1	0	0	0
ADRIC Arbitration Rules	3	3	7	3
ADRIC Med-Arb Rules	5	4	4	9

Where "Model" actually belongs. ADRIC publishes a Model Dispute Resolution Clause — a contract clause, inside the rules document. The spec's phrase conflates the clause's name with the rules' name.

The canonical title, from the page's own heading: "The ADRIC National Mediation Rules". The Model Clause it publishes uses the same form — "shall be mediated pursuant to the National Mediation Rules of the ADR Institute of Canada, Inc."

One inconsistency in ADRIC's own materials, recorded so it is not read later as our error. The /rules-codes/ index has a card labelled "ADRIC Mediation Rules" (1 occurrence, card link text) while its nav and the document itself say "National Mediation Rules". Use ADRIC National Mediation Rules — the document's own title, and the form inside the model clause.

Finding 2 — the three rule sets, with the facts a page may state

ADRIC National Mediation Rules. "The National Mediation Rules provide rules for initiating mediations, including the appointment of a mediator should the parties be unable to come to an agreement." The document contains: Mediation Rules including a Code of Conduct; a Standard Form Agreement to Mediate (Schedule B); ADRIC administration fees (Schedule A); and the Model Dispute Resolution Clause.

⚠️ Currency caveat, verbatim: "As of 2025, the ADRIC Mediation Committee is currently reviewing the Mediation Rules… In the meantime, the existing rules remain in effect and should continue to be used until any updates are formally adopted." So do not date them, and do not describe them as recently revised.

ADRIC Arbitration Rules. "ADRIC has adopted new Arbitration Rules and a new Arbitrator Appointment Protocol, effective March 1, 2025." Published as "ADRIC Arbitration Rules – Effective 2025", alongside an ADRIC Arbitrator Appointment Protocol and named forms: Notice to Arbitrate, Request to Administer the Arbitration, Request for the appointment of an arbitrator, Application for Urgent Interim Measures, Application to Challenge an Arbitrator, Notice of Appeal.

ADRIC Med-Arb Rules. Developed by a Task Force — "a Task Force was formed with a dedicated working group of med-arb professionals. The Task Force completed an initial draft of the Rules, which were then referred to the Rules Committee" — and a discussion draft was presented to the membership at ADRIC's Annual Conference in November 2019. Two sentences are directly useful to /med-arb/, both verbatim:

"Med-Arb is not merely the merging of separate mediation and arbitration processes, but a unique process designed to meet the needs of particular disputants. It involves nuances and complexities that can be fine-tuned to the needs of the parties as a customized dispute resolution process, which requires a high level of practitioner competence to do successfully."

"The Rules are designed to work in tandem with ADRIC's existing Mediation Rules and Arbitration Rules, integrating seamlessly."

Scope, verbatim: "Although the Med-Arb Rules were drafted to assist in resolving domestic commercial disputes, parties may want to apply them to international or non-commercial disputes." That matches §4's commercial scoping without being cited for it — it is ADRIC's statement about its own rules, not authority for what this practice offers.

ADRIC also publishes a Med-Arb Foundational Course (in English) and, per this page, "criteria for a specialized designation: the Chartered Med-Arb".

Finding 3 — "Chartered Med-Arbitrator" is corroborated by a second body

Chartered Med-Arbitrator appears 2 times on every one of the four pages — it is ADRIC's own navigation label, under Designations & CEE → Professional Designations. So the long form §11 now carries, sourced from ADRIO, is independently the form ADRIC uses in its nav. The body prose on the Med-Arb Rules page uses the short "Chartered Med-Arb" once — "criteria for a specialized designation: the Chartered Med-Arb".

⚠️ This read "3 occurrences" for one pass. grep -o -F 'Chartered Med-Arb' does return 3, but two of the three are substrings of the nav label "Chartered Med-Arbitrator" counted separately one sentence above. grep -o 'Chartered Med-Arb(?!itrator)' returns 1. That is CLAUDE.md's "a grep that matches is not a finding until you read what it matched", committed inside the document whose whole purpose is sourced counts. Found by adversarial-reviewer. Neither body writes "Mediator-Arbitrator" anywhere in this fetch.

Finding 4 — what is NOT in this fetch, and must not be inferred from it

• The rules' actual provisions. Every page above is a landing page; the rules themselves are PDFs behind download links and were not fetched. So this file supports naming a rule set and describing what a document contains at the level its own landing page describes it. It supports no statement of what any rule requires, permits or provides — including anything about consent mechanics, caucus information, or the switch from mediation to arbitration in med-arb. Write those as this practice's own protocol, or not at all.
• Anything about ADR Chambers. It is not sourced here, and as of 2026-08-30 it is named on no page: Pouya struck it from /arbitration/ and from docs/01 item 3. docs/07-fees.md cites it only for published fee ranges, which is a different claim and is internal.
• Legal effect. Nothing here establishes the enforceability of an award, in Ontario or anywhere. §4 bars this repository from concluding a proposition of law.

Finding 5 — ADRIC superlatives deliberately NOT lifted

Same treatment as adrio-designations.md Finding 5. These are ADRIC's marketing claims about itself and must not travel onto this site, where §4 Forbidden bars superlatives:

• "The ADRIC Arbitration Rules have been the leading choice for Canadian businesses since 2002."
• "integrating seamlessly" — quoted above inside a quotation, and it stays inside one.