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Chris Whitelaw - Dispute Resolution Professional
http://www.chriswhitelaw.com.au/blog/
Christopher Whitelaw is a highly skilled dispute resolution professional with over 28 years of experience in law and in alternative dispute resolution who is fully committed to helping his clients quickly identify and pursue the best and most efficient pathway to resolve their dispute and return to 'life as normal' or 'business as usual'.
Recent Posts
DISPUTE RESOLUTION IN THE BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY
I have been successfully employing ADR strategies to residential building disputes in Sydney for the last 6 months or so. These are disputes that, if not resolved fairly early on, will end up being tracked into either the Consumer Trader and Tenancy ...
Launch of the National Alternative Dispute Resolution Advisory Council (NADRAC) - Report on Alternative Dispute Resolution in the Civil Justice System
Parliament House, Canberra Wednesday, 4 November 2009 First, may I acknowledge the traditional owners of the land we meet on – and pay my respects to their elders, both past and present. Murray Kellam AO, Chair of NADRAC NADRAC Members Distingui...
Government Considers New Alternative Dispute Resolution Report
ATTORNEY-GENERAL HON ROBERT McCLELLAND MP MEDIA RELEASE 4 November 2009 Attorney General, Robert McClelland, today launched the National Alternative Dispute Resolution Advisory Council (NADRAC) Report into alternative dispute resolution in ...
Lawyers Role in Dispute Resolution Under Threat
If you have been reading my blog posts since this blog opened about 8 weeks ago you know that a constant theme has been that ADR (alternative dispute resolution) will nine times out of 10 offer better (i.e. more efficient and less expensive) method...
Alternative Dispute Resolution And Medical Negligence
In 204 Natalie Gray wrote a piece in the Journal of Law and Medicine titled “Reforming the relationship between medicine and the law of tort.” In that article she examined the fault-based adversarial system that we have as applied to me...
Civil Justice System - Access to Justice
Some of you may be aware that the 36th Australian Legal Convention has just finished in Perth, WA. A number of keynote speeches was given by the Federal Attorney General the Hon. Robert McClelland. When speaking about “Access to Justice”...

