Experience

Trained by CDR Associates of Boulder, Colorado (1991)
Member of Mediators' Panel of Arbitrators' and Mediators' Institute of New Zealand (1987)
Chaired Seminar on Partnering and Close Working Relationships, Auckland (1994)
Conducted over 80 judicial settlement conferences as a Master of the High Court of New Zealand (1992-2002)
Chaired Institute of Judicial Studies' Judicial Settlement Conference Seminars (2001)
Member, Expert Panel advising Minister of Internal Affairs on design and establishment of dispute resolution service in New Zealand under the Weathertight Homes Resolution Services Act 2002
Member, LEADR Mediation Panel (2003)
Conducted frequent mediations since returning to practice in 2002
Queen’s Counsel (2005)
Member, Panel of Mediators of Kuala Lumpur Regional Centre for Arbitration (2011)

Educational Involvement

Member (with only short breaks due to other commitments), Education and Qualifications Committee of Arbitrators' and Mediators' Institute of New Zealand or its predecessor Committees (1991-2003) and Convenor of the Committee for much of that period
Member, Massey University - Arbitrators' and Mediators' Institute of New Zealand Joint Advisory Committee for the Dispute Resolution Centre, Massey University (1993-2003)

Publications and Recent Papers

Dispute Resolution in New Zealand (1992) 58 JCIArb 2(S), 38-41
South Pacific Perspective on International Arbitration and Dispute Resolution since 1961 (1995) 1 NZBLQ 195-243
Alternative Dispute Resolution in New Zealand in Alternative Dispute Resolution - what it is and how it works (1997)
Expert Determination and the Enforceability of ADR [2000] NZLJ 223
ADR – Antipodean Dispute Resolution (2004) published by the Society of Construction Law (see Recent Papers page)
The beginning, the middle and the end, a paper on the Construction Contracts Act 2002 presented to a meeting of the Society of Construction Law New Zealand (July 2010)
Kennedy-Grant on Construction Law (2nd. Ed, LexisNexis, Wellington, 2012) contains chapters on mediation and other dispute resolution processes (see Books and Book Reviews page).

Links
Arbitrators' and Mediators' Institute of New Zealand Inc
CDR Associates

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