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THE INSTITUTE OF ARBITRATORS & MEDIATORS AUSTRALIA

The Institute of Arbitrators & Mediators Australia (IAMA) is the nation’s largest, independent and most experienced alternative dispute resolution (ADR) organisation. Founded in 1975, membership includes some of Australia’s eminent and experienced ADR professionals from a diverse range of sectors including commercial, legal, industry, education and government.

With offices in all states and territories, it also plays a key role in industry and consumer schemes. The IAMA provides services in all forms of ADR including arbitration, mediation, adjudication, conciliation, and expert determination, and is involved in the professional development, training and accreditation of ADR across Australia and internationally

  

Australasia’s pre-eminent ADR event focussed on dispute resolution in the current economic downturn and  how ADR professionals can best meet the needs of disputants in these challenging times.Delegates heard from leading experts of industry, business, media, judiciary, academia and leaders of government.

PRINCIPAL SPONSOR:  Hinds Blunden

Sponsors:  The Australian Financial Review, Clayton Utz Lawyers, Colin, Biggers & Paisley Lawyers, HWL Ebsworth Lawyers, Minter Ellison Lawyers, Evans & Peck, Holding Redlich Lawyers, Devers List - McPhee Mediation Centre, Marque Lawyers, Merrill Legal Solutions,  Mediator Style Training, The Victorian Bar, Karstens Mediation Rooms

 Guest speakers included:

•  The Hon Robert McClelland MP, Attorney General of Australia
• The Hon Rob Hulls MP, Deputy Premier of Victoria and State Attorney General
• The Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG retired Justice of the High Court of Australia
• The Hon Sir Laurence Street KCMG QC
• The Hon Justice Murray Kellam AO, Justice of the Court of Appeal, Supreme Court of Victoria and Chair of the National Alternative Dispute Resolution Council
• Gavan Griffith AO QC, former Solicitor General of Australia
• Professor Doug Jones AM, Partner, Clayton Utz
• Michael Gill, CEO of Fairfax Business Media and Publisher of The Australian Financial Review and Business Review Weekly
• Richard Ackland, award winning broadcaster, journalist and publisher of Justinian and the Gazette of Law and Journalism
• Gabrielle Trainor, Director of the Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority and VicUrban, Australian Football League Commissioner (NSW//ACT), Partner John Connolly & Partners
• Henry Jolson QC, Board Member of the Western Bulldogs
• Sue Laver, General Counsel, Dispute Resolution, Telstra Corporation Limited
• Anna Booth, Director of Co-Solve, Board Member of Members Equity Bank, The Centre for Policy Development and Non Executive Chair, Slater and Gordon
• Dato Noorashikin Banti Tan Sri Abdul Rahim – Director of the Kuala Lumpur Regional Centre for Arbitration
• Associate Professor Dale Bagshaw, President of the Asia Pacific Mediation Forum and Vice President of the World Mediation Forum

 Recognising that the Australian Football League engages mediation and conciliation to resolve disputes, IAMA organised an  exclusive opportunity for delegates to attend the Collingwood v Port Adelaide game at the MCG 4.40 pm 31 May at a special Premium Reserve Seat arrangement -  Level 2, Olympic Stand.

 

Conference Souvenir Brochure (click here)                 

ADR: The Boom and Beyond 2008 Conference Highlights (click here)

Request for Nomination of a Dispute Resolver

The Institute of Arbitrators & Mediators Australia has a panel of skilled and experienced dispute resolvers covering many commercial areas and professional disciplines. The specialist areas include construction and engineering, law, finance, accounting, information technology, health services, and local government and many others. Parties are able to select their dispute resolver from the Institute's panel of ADR professionals, or the Institute will nominate a suitable person on request. The Institute can also assist parties in designing or setting up an appropriate ADR procedure for particular applications. The Institute has available recommended rules and standard contract clauses for facilitating dispute resolution.

Download Request for Nomination of a Dispute Resolver (PDF 154kb)

The Practitioner's Certificate in Mediation

With mediation being adopted widely across the commercial, legal, industry, education and government sectors, an understanding of the practical application of mediation techniques is an important and useful professional skill.
The Institute of Arbitrators & Mediators Australia (IAMA) has an established reputation as Australia’s pre-eminent provider of mediation training and as a Recognised Mediator Accreditation Body, its national mediation course complies with the new National Mediator Accreditation Standards (NMAS) as implemented by the Australian Attorney General’s National Alternative Dispute Resolution Advisory Council.
The Practitioner’s Certificate in Mediation presented by Nationally Accredited instructors and conducted
Australia-wide, offers a practice-oriented qualification in mediation.

Participants who successfully complete the assessment module may apply for National Accreditation through IAMA. 

The National Accreditation Mediator System - Letter from IAMA President  

Application for Experience Qualified Practitioners             

For course details download registration form and send to National Office. 

The 2009 course dates are as follows. Access IAMA State & Territory Offices here

Melbourne  21 - 23  & 27 - 29 April; 28 - 30 July & 3 - 5 August; and 17 - 19 & 24 - 26 November

Sydney  25 - 28 February - 14 - 15 March and 19 - 22 August & 29 - 30 August

Brisbane  5 - 8 and 11 - 12 May

Perth   25 - 28  March and 3 - 4 April

Adelaide 5 - 8 & 11- 12 May

Canberra   1 - 4 June & 9 - 10 June

The power of mediation: The Hon Tony Fitzgerald AC QC launches IAMA Course handbook Read more (PDF)

Diary of The Practitioner's Certificate in Mediation: Martin Jones, Group Manager - Employee Relations Strategy, Fairfax Media    Read more (PDF)

The New Australian National Mediator Standards

 IAMA has taken a strongly supportive and active role throughout the development of an independent, voluntary scheme within which mediators can seek national accreditation under a set of new approval and practice standards.  As their name suggests, the new National Mediator Standards have national application and became effective on 1 January 2008.  The effectiveness of the National Mediator Accreditation Scheme (NMAS) will depend on the participation of agencies that carry the status of being a Recognised Mediator Accreditation Body (RMAB). Read more.

The Arbitrator & Mediator Volume 27 Number 2 December 2008 (PDF)

This issue of The Arbitrator & Mediator brings with it a range of articles that, between them, cover the ADR field.  It is not only the full array of alternative dispute resolution techniques that are considered, but a number of jurisdictions and industries.  Why is the last of these points important?  IAMA's past president and immediate past president of ACICA, AA de Fina OAM tells us why in his consideration of large arbitrations in the minerals and energy industries namely, the features typical of a dispute in one industry will differ - and sometimes markedly differ - from disputes in other industries ... Russell Thirgood, Editor

The Professional Certificate in Arbitration

Arbitration has had a long history in Australia as a preferred method for resolving commercial disputes.  When IAMA was founded in 1975 as the Institute of Arbitrators Australia, it was at the forefront of the development, training and practice of arbitration. The Professional Certificate in Arbitration is a joint venture between the Institute of Arbitrators & Mediators Australia and the University of Adelaide.  This national course is an Australian first and has suitably qualified students who have become successful graded arbitrators in their fields of professional expertise since its commencement in 1998. In 2004 the course was nominated in the B-HERT (Business/Higher Education Round Table) Awards, an Australian Government/AusIndustry initiative which recognises Outstanding Achievements in Collaboration in Research & Development and Education & Training. 

Offered as an online course it attracts a tertiary qualification upon successful completion. Face to face classes are held in Australian capital cities where there is sufficient student demand.. Download the course information document (Acrobat format, PDF 361K) and visit the course website for more information

Arbitrate or perish in a pile of paper - Frank Costigan QC, The Australian Financial Review, 10 August 2007 (PDF)

National arbitration course to meet market need - The Adelaidean, 30 March 1998 (PDF)