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Experience

• Family Law - All aspects

• Family Law Mediation/ADR

• Family Law Arbitration

• Building and Construction Mediation

• Part IV and Estate Litigation Mediation

• Property Law Act - Partition Mediation

• Family Succession/Farming Succession Mediation

John's mediation and ADR interest goes back to when he first became accredited as an ADR Specialist in 1994 with the Law Institute.

Here is his full history:

• First accredited as an ADR Specialist – Mediation in 1996 (LIV)

• Re-accredited 2013 – Australian Institute of Family Law Arbitrators and Mediators (AIFLAM)

• 2013 Nationally Accredited Mediator (NMAS) (current)

• 2013 Specialist Accreditation - Family Law (LIV) (current)

• 2016 listed Arbitrator (Family Law) following AIFLAM qualification (current)

• Victorian Bar ADR Committee from 2017 to 2024 – previous chair Family Law sub-committee

• Coach and Examiner for the Lawyer’s Mediation Certificate - Victorian Bar 2018 – to present

• 2020 Member of Panel of Mediators – VCAT Property List– to present

• 2024 Accredited Advanced Mediator by VicBar (VBAM)

• 45 years practise and experience in Common Law, Family Law, Building and Construction and Estate Litigation as solicitor in Victoria, Queensland and NSW, and as a Barrister at the Victorian and Queensland Bars, more recently concentrating on Family Law and Mediation/ADR.

John will travel wherever he is called!

John is familiar with Gippsland (having established the Victorian Bar there 1983 - 1989), Albury-Wodonga region, Wagga Wagga, and Wangaratta (having worked as a Solicitor for a National firm managing their Estate Litigation and Family Law 2012-2014) and having appeared on circuit in Albury, Bendigo and Ballarat in the Family Court and FCFCoA.

John says:

"I believe that there is a solution for every dispute and that Mediation can not only save both parties costs but also achieve a resolution that may not be available at the end of a long, costly and often bitter court dispute."