Australasian Dispute Resolution Journal update: Vol 28 Pt 2
The latest Part of the Australasian Dispute Resolution Journal includes the following articles: “Investor-State Dispute Settlement Mechanism: The Trojan Horse of the Trans-Pacific Partnership and its Practical Implications” – Muhammad Zaheer Abbas and Shamreeza Riaz; “Managing the Inter-cultural Dimensions of a Mediation Effectively – A Proposed Pre-mediation Intake Instrument” – Dorcas Quek Anderson and Diana Knight; “Being the Ladle in the Soup Pot: Working with the Dichotomy of Neutrality and Empowerment in Mediation Practice” – Bornali Borah; “Mediation Confidentiality: Origins, Application and Exceptions and Practical Implications” – Judge Joe Harman; “Design in Dispute Resolution Practice: Tips and Tools” – Helen Shurven and Clair Berman-Robinson; “Mediator’s Proposal and Mediator’s Neutrality: Finessing the Tension” – Mohamed Sweify; “Settlement in Court-Connected ADR and the Constitutional Function of the Judiciary: An Imbalance between two Competing Public Interests” – Michael Windeyer. It also contains Case Notes: “Admissibility of a Statement Made at Mediation – Humphreys v Humphreys” and “Mediation Media Watch” – David Spencer.
Australasian Dispute Resolution Journal update: November 2014
The latest Part of the ADRJ includes the following material: “International arbitration in Australia: 2013/2014 in review” – Albert Monichino QC and Alex Fawke; “Lawyers behaving badly in mediations: Lessons for legal educators” – Donna Cooper; “Insights from Australian mediators about mediation and access to justice” – Mary Anne Noone and Dr Lola Akin Ojelabi; “Mediation in a cross-cultural setting: What a mediator should know” – Kelvin Lau; and “Mirror, mirror on the wall, is there no r(e)ality in neutrality after all? Re-thinking ADR practices for Indigenous Australians” – Neha Sharma. There is also a Case Note: “Whether coercion by a solicitor in mediation is the subject of advocate immunity and mediation media watch” – David Spencer.
Hearing the voices of Victorian conferencing practitioners – views on neutrality
By Kathy Douglas, Nadia Sager and Rachael Field. Conferencing is a restorative justice process that is used in the criminal justice system in Australia to deal with a variety of offences. In this article, the authors analyse research into the understandings of conferencing practitioners regarding the issue of the neutrality of the third party in facilitating the process.