Admitted to the Legal Profession:
30 Nov 1987
Signed Victorian Bar Roll:
30 Nov 1989
Accredited as mediator:
03 Aug 1995
Nationally accredited mediator:
08 May 2008
Advanced mediator:
27 Oct 2006
Qualifications:
LLB, ACCREDITED MEDIATOR
Also entitled to practise in:
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Federal Court of Australia
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New South Wales
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Northern Territory
Profile
MEDIATOR and BARRISTER
Since 1987 when he first trained as a mediator, Mark has actively participated in the development of mediation practice in Australia. His experience is extensive:
as a practising Mediator conducting in excess of 2,500 mediations
as a course presenter giving hundreds of participants – including many lawyers – training towards their accreditation as mediators
as a coach and assessor for accreditation courses presented by Bond University
as a consultant to Victoria Legal Aid in the development of the Round Table Dispute Management (RDM) program
as an accredited Advanced Mediator at the Victorian Bar
as a registered Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner who is active in the development and promotion of FDR by private FDR practitioners
Mark is a Barrister who combines legal practice with extensive mediation work referred by organisations, various Federal and State Courts and by clients directly. He is a panel mediator pursuant to both the Franchise Code and the Oil Industry Code, a gazetted mediator pursuant to section 21K of the Evidence Act 1958 (Vic), is an active RDM conference chairperson and has been a panel mediator at Relationships Australia for more than 20 years. He has also been a panel mediator at VCAT and for the Office of the Small Business Commissioner (Vic).
His 20 years of extensive and varied mediation work, together with his negotiation and legal practice experience, has given Mark a broad practical background in dispute resolution. In his mediation work he has developed special expertise in the following areas:
Mediating disputes where emotions run high, e.g. contractual disputes and property and parenting agreements following the breakdown of family relationships, defacto property, workplace, probate/TFM, family farming, business and professional partnership, and bank/client disputes
Mediation in the ‘shadow of court proceedings’ - i.e. with legal issues pleaded and the Court processes underway
Confidential interpersonal mediations
Mediation between parties who have an interest in maintaining personal, family or work relationships while seeking a resolution to their dispute
Mediating agreements between prospective partners, whether it be pre-nuptial or cohabitation agreements, business, contractual or professional partnership negotiations.