Autumn 2020

Read As Flip Book

Editor's Note

Trials from home

President's Column

Resolving disputes and Covid-19

Opinion

What's the Point of Counsel in Alternative Dispute Resolution
By Anthony Cheshire SC
Not everything that counts can be counted
By Michael Kearney SC

Recent Developments

Future of common fund orders in doubt
By Christina Trahanas
HT v The Queen [2019] HCA 40; 93 ALJR 1307
By Ann Bonnor
Vella v Commissioner of Police (NSW) [2019] HCA 38
By Christine Melis
'Non-citizen, non-alien'
By Shipra Chordia
Let's agree to disagree
By Benjamin Goodyear
Mediation and incapacity: whether an agreement should be set aside
By Claire Roberts
No jurisidiction to appeal when final relief sought on Arbitrator’s mandate
By Andrew Emmerson

ADR Feature

Guest Editor's Note - Bar News Special ADR Edition
By Mary Walker
ADR and the NSW Bar in the 21st Century? Specialist Advocacy In and Outside the Courtroom
By Arthur Moses SC
Good lawyers are good advocates, but great lawyers excel at problem solving
By The Hon Chief Justice Will Alstergren and the Hon Justice Robert McClelland
The Art of Advocacy in Mediation
By Ian Davidson SC
ADR at the New South Wales Bar
By Ingmar Taylor SC and Chris Winslow
The ADR Committee
The Future of Alternative Dispute Resolution
By The Hon T F Bathurst AC, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of NSW
Alternative Dispute Resolution in the Employment and Industrial Field
By David Stewart
Apparent bias and conflicts of interest in the arbitral process
By the Hon Margaret Beazley AC QC, Governor of New South Wales
ADR and the Legal Profession
By The Hon P A Bergin SC
Interview with Terry Sheahan AO
By Melissa Fisher
A Tribute to Sir Laurence Street AC KCMG QC
By Mary Walker
The United Nations Convention on International Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation
By Mary Walker
On the road with ... The Workers Compensation Commission
By Kavindra Balendra
Frank E. A. Sander, Bussey Professor of Law, Emeritus at Harvard Law School
By Mary Walker

Interview

A Mediator’s Perspective

News

Bar Firefighters
By Stephen Ryan
Justice Connect: connecting the community to amazing lawyers
By The Honourable Ruth McColl AO SC
New South Wales Bar Wellbeing Committee Experienced Barristers Luncheon
Commencement of Law Term services
By Mark Maconachie
Australian Bar Association High Court Silk Bows – 3 Feb 2020
By John Catsanos SC

Appointments

Swearing in of Wendy Jane Abraham QC as a Judge of the Federal Court of Australia

Obituaries

Reviews

Bullfry

Bullfry asks a sartorial question

Advocatus

Mediation: The Most Definitive Guide Ever

The Furies

In a mediation, is it sensible to allow your client to speak? In a mediation, if you and the mediator arrive before the other party, is it OK to chat? What are safe subjects to speak about?
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