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Victorian Practising Counsel
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Tony has developed an extensive commercial practice in the Supreme & Federal Courts.This includes disputes involving Trusts, Real Estate Agent Law, Corporations Law, Property Law Professional Negligence and General Commercial Law. In 2016 Tony was appointed Special Referee by the Honourable Justice Vickery to assist the Court in facilitation and resolution of all interlocutory discovery applications in the McConnell Dowell v Santam which resulted in the Orders for Technology Assisted Review discovery.
In 2011 Tony was appointed Special Referee by the Honourable Justice Croft to assist the Court in facilitation and resolution of all interlocutory applications in the "Great Southern Group Proceedings".Tony has a special interest in alternative dispute resolution. Tony is a Nationally Accredited Mediator and an Advanced Accredited Mediator. Over the past 25 years Tony has conducted mediations in the following areas:
- Real Estate Agent Disputes
- Commercial Law
- Accounting Partnership disputes
- Contract Disputes
- Corporations & Securities
- Insurance & Re-insurance
- Partnership Law
- Trade Practices & Consumer Protection
- Unit & Discretionary Trusts
- Banking & Finance
- Landlord & Tenant (Commercial & Residential)
- Property
- Professional Negligence
- Testator Family Maintenance Claims
- Will disputes
Most of these disputes have been court ordered mediations. Recently Tony has been involved in numerous "pre issue mediations" and assisted the parties to a resolution without the need to litigate. In 1995 Tony attended a mediation training course conducted by Bond University at the Victorian Bar and became accredited as a Mediator by the Victorian Bar. In May 2006 Tony was accredited by the Victorian Bar as an Advanced Accredited Mediator one of the first group to be so accredited. Tony was the Victorian Bar Appointee to the NMAC meetings which led to creation of the Mediator Standards Board (MSB). In May 2008 Tony was accredited by the MSB as a Nationally Accredited Mediator as soon as the National Standards were settled by NMAC. In May 2013 Tony attended a Negotiation and Leadership course conducted by the Program on Negotiation, Harvard Law School Cambridge Massachusetts.Tony has been member of the Victorian Bar Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee (formerly known as the Dispute Resolution Committee) for approximately 15 years. Tony has presented papers on dispute resolution at the Victorian Bar CPD programme, at the Leo Cussen Centre and at Legalwise conferences. In 2008 and 2015 he presented at the Judicial College of Victoria.Tony has chaired committees that have drafted Victorian Bar submissions to NADRAC, the Victorian Parliament Law Reform Committee and the Mediator Standards Board. Tony has lectured at the Victorian Bar Mediation Training Course. Tony regularly assists junior members of the Victorian Bar to reaccredit as a Nationally Accredited Mediator by conducting co-mediations. Tony has been involved in facilitation sessions with Boards and Sporting Associations. Tony has conducted arbitrations pursuant to the Commercial Arbitration Act.Tony is highly regarded as a sports lawyer. He appears at arbitrations at the Court of Arbitration for Sport . He chairs selection disputes panels for various sports. He holds or has held the following appointments:
- AFL Arbitrator (1998-2013)
- AFL Mediator(2009-2012).
- Deputy Chair of the AFL Appeals Board.(1998-2004)
- Chair of Appeals Board of the Football Federation of Victoria (2004- )
- Member Appeals Board Football Federation of Victoria (1997-1999, 2004- )
- Chair of the Appeals Board of the Victorian Turf Cricket Association. (2004-)
- National Basketball League Tribunal Appeals Panel President(2006- 2013)
- NBL Tribunal Chairman (2015-2017)
- NBL Tribunal Officer (Alternate 2006)
Tony is a member of the Australian and New Zealand Sports Law Association (ANZSLA). He acts for various sporting associations. For more information on Tony Nolan KC please click here.
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