Pathways to Commercial Success in Latin America On Tuesday 14 December, the Australia–Latin America Business Forum was hosted by the Australian Disputes Centre as a hybrid event (in Sydney and online). Speakers from Australia and Latin America highlighted the growing trade and investment between Australia and Latin America and shared valuable insights into challenges confronting cross-border trade and tips on how to manage these business risks. His Excellency Mr Eduardo Patricio Peña Haller, Ambassador of Mexico highlighted the importance [...]

Stephano Salani I.  Introduction Negotiations and dispute resolution require quick thinking and strategic reactions to developing situations, dynamic relationships, and power shifting.  The mindset of a negotiator in such a dynamically evolving situation has been frequently defined in a binary manner.  A negotiator may be considered to take either a competitive/distributive approach or be considered to take a collaborative/integrative approach.[1]  Scholars have suggested that the determination of which approach to take should be governed by the relationship of the [...]

by Stephano Salani From left to right: Jeremy Gormly SC, Tom Howe QC, The Hon. Ruth McColl AO, Michael Kingston, Australian Government Solicitor On November 2021, the Australian Dispute Resolution Advisory Council Inc. (ADRAC) published its Final Report: Conciliation: connecting the dots. The report is the culmination of seven years of work. ADRAC’s research on conciliation in Australia was first published in its October 2019 Discussion Paper, Conciliation: a discussion paper, after almost three years of research. In the 2019 [...]