This On Demand was recorded at the Family Law Conference on 26 September 2024.
This session will focus on Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), covering key aspects of the FDR process and mediation, including collaborative and traditional approaches. Explore RP and COCA/FDR mediation models, arbitration, and effective stratgeies for recording enforceable settlements and court orders. Enhance your practical insights and strategies to refine your ADR expertise and better serve your clients.
Timothy is the Resolution Expert Oceana/Pacifica for OurFamilyWizard, and an active FDRP and parenting co-ordinator in Aotearoa New Zealand, where he also maintains a busy Family Law and Mental Health practice in Auckland and Palmerston North.
He also a currently published academic researcher and author, and Vice President of Pacifica Congress, - Asia/Pacifica's largest Family Justice membership group and peak body and the Chair of the Family Court Association Auckland.
Timothy is a past winner of many Aotearoa New Zealand awards including the 2020 Kiwi Bank New Zealand of the Year Local Heroes Awards, the 2017 NZ Law Awards – Mediator of the Year, and was the Winner of the Resolution Institute 2015 Practitioner Award for Significant Contribution to DR – for the development and/or promotion of DR in their communities.
Rosemarie Brown
(FAMINZ (Mediator); PRI; Lawyer, Chartered Accountant; Grad Dip Bus. (Dispute Resolution); BMS; LLB)
A Chartered Accountant from the Waikato with 35 years in business across a range of sectors and multi-disciplinary teams gave Rosemarie an insight into disputes and people. Rosemarie began mediating in 2006 in Australia then New Zealand. Rosemarie now works as a lawyer in Hamilton and mediator in Auckland. She is an experienced mediator, FDR, PFM and Voice of Child provider and member of collaborative teams as a Lawyer, Mediator and Financial Neutral.
Kate is a dispute resolver active in mediation, arbitration and collaborative resolution. Her work encompasses a broad range of commercial, property and family disputes. She has particular expertise in resolving family disputes concerning trusts, estates, companies and relationship property. She has a special interest in governance disputes, especially those concerning shareholders, incorporated societies, charitable trusts and body corporates.
Before coming to the law she had a 20-year career in business. She has held governance roles continuously since 2004, currently as an elected member of the governing bodies of the Arbitrators and Mediators Institute of New Zealand (AMINZ) and the Collaborative Law Association of New Zealand.
Ticket Price
Member: $115 GST
Non-Member: $160 GST