DISPUTE RESOLUTION IN AUSTRALIA

You can learn here about Dispute Resolution processes and Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) services available in Australia to assist you with the resolution of commercial or personal disputes.

We are dispute management specialists who are expert in the modern dispute management processes of:

Negotiation
Mediation
Conciliation
Expert Determination
Arbitration

Small and family owned business can find out about specialist dispute resolution services available under Australia’s trade practices regime, the Competition and Consumer Act 2010.

This is a national law which governs how all businesses must deal with their competitors, suppliers and customers.

Under it, industry wide Codes of Conduct have been published by the Australian Government or voluntarily agreed between industry participants in:

Franchising
Horticulture
Dairy
Wine
Food and Grocery
Oil
Energy

Find out how to initiate the process of dispute resolution under the various codes and obtain assistance with the resolution processes available to quickly and legally resolve disputes, without the expense of going to court.

DIFFERENT WAYS TO RESOLVE YOUR DISPUTE

What process is right for your dispute? Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Processes compared

Confused by the terminology? Here is a quick comparison of some of the major features and differences in the use of these dispute resolution processes.

PROCESS
type
Private Meetings
Evidence
Time
Benefits
Outcome

Mediation
facilitative
Private meeting
Not a search for truth
Usually one day
Privileged assisted negotiations
Agreement between the parties
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Expert Determination
investigative
No need for meetings or hearing
Documents and party’s submissions
Depends on complexity-a week
Expert appraisal
Binding decision (by agreement)
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Arbitration
determinative
No private meetings or communications
Hearing with documents and submissions
Should be shorter than litigation
Investigative hearing
Award (binding decision)
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DISPUTE MANAGEMENT SERVICES

Early Intervention Scheme for Legal Disputes

In our experience, getting disputing parties involved in early resolution leads to quicker, cheaper and more satisfactory outcomes than beginning with legal procedures. We can provide a fixed priced, results orientated, ‘value’ based “early intervention” Dispute Management Service to assist with the resolution of your dispute.

We are lawyers and dispute management specialists who understand both the legal litigation framework as well as being experts in the modern dispute management processes like Mediation and Arbitration.

We design a dispute management process that is right for your dispute and implement it for you. Once appointed, we will contact the other party to arrange a joint conference (either remotely or in person) and work with all disputant’s to define the problem, discard unnecessary matters, engage with participants to understand and relieve their emotional angst and narrow the issues for discussion and agreement or determination.

Our charges avoid the normal ‘hourly fee’ because we work with your objectives. By negotiation, our fees to resolve your problems can be an agreed sum relative to your achievement outcomes.

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