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IAMA conference launches new arbitration rules

Australasian Legal Business Magazine May 2007

This year's national conference of the Institute of Arbitrators & Mediators Australia (IAMA) will see the launch of a package of groundbreaking measures designed to speed up the arbitration process which, according to the IAMA, has become slow and cumbersome. "I am particularly pleased to announce we will be launching the much anticipated Arbitration Rules," said IAMA president Laurie James. The rules incorporate the so-called Fast Track Arbitration Rules, an initiative that aims to improve the quality but decrease the quantity of information considered during a dispute resolution.

The conference will also consider: recommendations for the amendments of the Uniform Commercial Arbitration Acts of the States and Territories; the challenges and opportunities for private mediation in the post-WorkChoices workplace; western mediation and dispute resolution practices in the Asia Pacific; and emerging trends in adjudication in Malaysia.

John Doyle, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia, will give the keynote address, entitled 'Dispute Resolution: Is Civil Litigation Part of the Solution or Part of the Problem?'.

Also attending will be: Justice Bruce Debelle of the Supreme Court of South Australia and Chairman of the Judicial Conference of Australia; Justice John Hamilton of the Supreme Court of NSW; Sir Laurence Street AC KCMG QC; Dato Kevin Woo, President of the Malaysian Institute of Arbitrators, and several top QCs, as well as many other leading ADR professionals.

The conference, which is titled 'New Horizons in ADR', will be held 1-3 June in Glenelg, South Australia. For further information see www.iama.org.au

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