I have been a commercial litigation lawyer for 30 years and a mediator for over 20 years. I currently practice at the Victorian Bar exclusively as a mediator.
I have been named as a leading mediator in Victoria in Doyle’s Guide each year the list has been published and am accredited by the Victorian Bar as an advanced mediator. I have undertaken advanced mediation training with Harvard Negotiation Institute’s Program on Negotiation and also with Bond University’s Dispute Resolution Centre.
My professional experience includes earlier roles as:
- a sessional member of VCAT (2016 - 2020)
- a Federal Court registrar (2001 – 2007)
- an in-house lawyer with ANZ Banking Group Limited (1998 – 2001)
- a barrister (1994 – 1998 and 2007 – present)
- a solicitor in private practice (1990 – 1994).
In my roles with the Federal Court of Australia, I undertook mediations in all major areas of the Court’s jurisdiction (commercial and trade practices disputes, insolvency, workplace, native title and human rights cases), trained and mentored new mediators and co-developed and delivered mediation skills training for the judiciary and legal profession in the South Pacific. I also exercised judicial functions in bankruptcy and corporations law cases.
At the ANZ Banking Group Limited I was a senior member of the Bank’s dispute resolution group, which had responsibility for all of the Bank’s non-lending related litigation as well as high-profile lending disputes.
I mediate disputes in areas including:
- Administrative law
- Bankruptcy & corporate insolvency
- Banking, finance & guarantees
- Corporations law
- Consumer law
- Directors’ duties
- Equity and trusts
- Human rights
- Intellectual property
- Legal costs
- Partnership
- PPSA cases
- Professional negligence
- Property law
- Sale of land
- Superannuation
- Trade Practices
- Workplace & employment.