Today is the last day to register for the LSSA CPD Webinar tomorrow, either personally (best) or via video link (better than nothing). The deadline for registration is 4.00 pm. (Now see Stop Press 2 below)
It is on pendulum arbitration, which is the most promising dispute resolution technique around today, albeit that it is still in its infancy in Australia. Experience from the USA (where it originated, at least in its modern form) indicates that it really does deliver dispute resolution which:
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- Is final and binding, with precious little opportunity for appeal,
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- Is fast and cheap, comparable to a mediation,
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- Is simple to understand, and free from excessive the procedural complexity which plagues security of payment processes,
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- Is regarded as fair by parties who have been through the process,
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- Is free from much of the acrimony which so often plagues litigation and conventional arbitration.
I urge as many lawyers as possible to at least find out about it. Indeed, not to know anything about it and, in appropriate cases, to offer it as an option to clients, seems to me to something of a dereliction of duty. Certainly dispute lawyers, whose job includes advising clients about the most efficient way of resolving existing disputes, but also front-end lawyers, who might well be putting pendulum arbitration clauses into contracts. The session is based on a session I did for the SABAR, which was well received.
You might think that much (if not most) CPD is a waste of time. Not this one.
Stop Press 2
The registration dealine has just been extended until tomorrow morning i.e. 5th June 2024
Stop Press
Due to some technical over-enthusiasm – and a bit of old code – an email drawing attention to this has gone to all my contacts instead of a select few, and with an old email sign-off! Apologies for that. My correct email is:
Robert FENWICK ELLIOTT | Pendulum Arbitrator and Mediator
The Phenelry, 90 Sampson Road, Myponga Beach, South Australia 5202
T: + 61 (0) 8 8558 6076
M: + 61 (0) 415 668 665
W: feconslaw.com
A member of the South Australian Bar Association
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