ADC Skills Workshops are convenient, cost effective way to meet CLE and National Mediator Accreditation Standards CPD requirements. ADC workshops are highly interactive skills development sessions designed to hone the specialist skills of the mediator. Our workshops form a cornerstone of ADC’s Professional Development program for experienced and newly qualified mediators. Mediation practitioner-trainers conduct sessions focused on different topics each month. Join us in Person Participants located in Sydney please join us face-face at the Centre. Participants will enjoy one [...]

ADC Skills Workshops are convenient, cost effective way to meet CLE and National Mediator Accreditation Standards CPD requirements. ADC workshops are highly interactive skills development sessions designed to hone the specialist skills of the mediator. Our workshops form a cornerstone of ADC’s Professional Development program for experienced and newly qualified mediators. Mediation practitioner-trainers conduct sessions focused on different topics each month. Join us in Person Participants located in Sydney please join us face-face at the Centre. Participants will enjoy one [...]

Off with the wig: Issues that arise for advocates when switching from the courtroom to the negotiating table The Honourable Chief Justice Tom Bathurst AC As litigation and mediation are increasingly being used interchangeably as part of the one process rather than as independent methods of dispute resolution, and as the reliance on advocates in mediation increases, the situations in which legal professionals will see themselves having to perform alternating and sometimes contradictory roles is bound to increase.  This speech [...]

Using ADR to assist land dispute negotiations in NSW Following ADC’s highly successful Land Rights seminar in 2016, Australia’s leading experts take claimants, practitioners and government agencies the next step in discussing the ‘why’ and ‘how’ of using mediation in effectively resolving Land Rights claims. What is the importance of designing an appropriate dispute resolution process that suits the parties and the dispute? What factors need to be considered? Who should participate in dispute resolution and why? When is a [...]

Ethics & ADR Join Mary and colleagues to discuss Ethics & ADR Mary Walker has been at the forefront of ADR in Australia for the last 27 years. During this period, as a member of an independent Bar, Mary has arbitrated, mediated, negotiated and facilitated multi-party, environmental and community disputes;  designed dispute resolution systems and provided expert appraisal and ombudsman services in respect to thousands of disputes referred by solicitors, industry and government bodies, and corporations both domestic and international. [...]