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Programme

A provisional programme is below.  The programme will be altered as more presenters are confirmed.

 

Provisional Programme

Day 1 Thursday 6 August


Conference Opens
1:00 - 1.30pm Registration
1.30 - 2.30pm AMINZ Forum
2.30 - 3:00pm AMINZ AGM
3:00 - 4:00pm New Council Meeting
5:00 - 6:00pm Newbies Function:  Welcome to the Institute at the Institute
6:00 - 7:00pm

Opening

Grand Hall, Parliament hosted by Attorney General Hon Chris Finlayson

7:30 - late Social Event at Wellington's iconic Backbencher

 

 

Day 2 Friday 7 August

8:45 - 9:00 Mihi
9:00 - 9:45am

J. Anderson (Andy) Little

Introducing and Designing Alternative Dispute Resolution in the Courts

9:45 - 10:30am

Acting Principal Family Court Judge Paul von Dadelszen

Mediation in the Family Court

10:30 - 11:00am Morning Tea
Streams Adjudication/Arbitration Mediation General
11:00-11:55am

Derek Firth

How to write an adjudicated determination

Chair: Terry Stapleton

Phillip Green

Everything you tell me will be confidential except the things I will have to tell others!

Chair: Ian McIntosh

Robert Turner

Mediation: Is it a matter of style or context?

Chair: Helen Ridley

12:00 - 1:00pm Lunch
1:00-1:55 pm

Chris LaHatte

Recent updates on Contruction & Building Law

Chair: Dr Clive Trotman

J. Anderson (Andy) Little

Skills Workshop and Roleplay

The Language of Numbers:  Mediating and Negotiating Claims for Money

Chair: Anne Scragg

n/a
2:00 - 2:55pm

Robert Fisher

Spare wheel arbitrators

Chair: Peter Phillips

n/a
3:00 - 3:30pm Afternoon Tea
3:30 - 4:25pm

Leader: Terry Sissons

Panel: Jenny Murphy, Roger Pitchforth and Thomas Wutzler

Do you have to be an expert in an area to arbitrate?

Plus - how to hot tub

J. Anderson (Andy) Little

Skills Workshop and Roleplay

The Language of Numbers:  mediating and Negotiating Claims for Money


n / a
4:30 - 5:30pm

Leader: Tony Frankham

Panelists: Christopher Ruthe, Dr Tom Marshall, Alex Sundakov

How to Deal with Expert Evidence

n / a
7:30 pm - late

Conference Dinner

Hotel Intercontinental

Speaker: His Excellency the Governor-General of New Zealand The Hon Sir Anand Satyanand, GNZM, QSO

Guest: Attorney General Hon Christopher Finlayson



Day 3 Saturday 8 August

7:30 - 8:45 am

Fellows' Breakfast

Hosted by the President David Carden and Vice President Ann Edge at ICON Restaurant, Te Papa

8:45 - 9:00 am

Buzz Groups Introduction

Streams
Mediation Arbitration/Adjudication General Business
9:00 - 9:30 am J. Anderson (Andy) Little

What is the Proper Way to Describe the Mediation Process - Evaluative, Facilitative, Transformative....


David Robinson

Mediation: A viable option in the Family Court?

Geoff Sharp

In praise of joint sessions

Tony Frankham

How to be an expert witness

Ranald Gordon

How to deal with low level dispute resolution relating to rural issues

Peter Spiller

Decision Writing

Robert Elms

How to write a business plan


9:30 - 10:00 am J. Anderson (Andy) Little


The Use of Questions in Mediation

Bruce Cottrill

Looking Back, Looking Forward: The Reflective Mediator

 

Ross Wilson

Mediation & negotiation in a tough industrial environment - relections & lessons from 30 years

Roger Pitchforth

Opps! (When it all turns to custard)

John Walton

Dispute Resolution in Construction contracts

Ranald Gordon

Process in rural issues

David Carden

Your time with the Institute's President

10:00 - 10:30 am

Christine Johnson

How to perform an investigation for NZDF

Geoff Sharp

In praise of joint sessions

Denise Evans

Inbalances in family mediation

Daniel Kalderimis

Presenting a Case Before an International Tribunal:  Navigating Cross Cultural Issues

Richard Maiden

To Adjudicate or not to adjudicate.


Glenn Jones

How to change a Litigation Department into a Dispute Resolution Service

10:30 - 11:00 am Morning Tea
11:00 - 11:30am

Mary Harrow

Bringing the Fringe to the Heart of Mediation

Ross Wilson

Mediation & negotiation in a tough industrial environment - relections & lessons from 30 years

Ann Edge

What's this things called mediation?

Peter Spiller

Decision Writing: LOPP FLOPP Method and Adressing the Cellophane Man

Ranald Gordon

Process in rural issues

Lucila van Dam

The Crown as model litigant - what does this mean for ADR?

James Shearing

Professional Indemnity Insurance: Why you can't rely on the Statutory protection provided under the Arbitration Act


11:30 - 12 noon  

Ann Edge

What's this thing called mediation?

Denise Evans

Inbalances in family mediation

Bruce Cottrill

Looking Back, Looking Forward: The Reflective Mediator

Peter Degerholm

CCA Adjudication: cost and cashflow imperative vs. effective ADR. What could be improved?

John Larmer

Update on variable order sharemilking

John Walton

Dispute Resolution in Construction contracts

Graeme Fraser

A case for research into dispute resolution

12noon-12:45 Lunch
12:45 -1:45 pm

Virginia Goldblatt

The role of mediation in addressing allegations of power abuse in workplace relationships

Chair: Chris Rowe

Sally Fitzgerald

The role of the Arbitration Appeals Tribunal

Chair: David Patten

Penny Mudford

The relevance of ADR in a global recession: dispute resolution in commercial enterprise contracts

Chair: Colin Orchiston

1:45 - 2:30pm

David Hurley


Turning Points: An interactive discussion of those moments of magic in which parties stuck in impasse move on. How the environment for this to occur is created; the initiatives the parties bring; and mediator interventions that may help.

Chair: Denise Evans



Reasoning & decision making workshop with Judge Anthony Willy

Panelists include Hon Michael KirbyHon Peter Salmon CNZM QC, Judge Vivienne Ullrich QC and Justice William Young

2:30 - 4:00pm

Warren Sowerby, Nina Khouri & Jessica Carter

Expanding our Market Share
"A Facilitated Discussion"


4:00 - 5:00 pm Conference Grand Finale


Plus

The Conference Junkies Dinner (for those who haven't had enough of Conference '09) with our international guest presenter, J. Anderson (Andy) Little:  "Talking Family Mediation" at Whitby's Restaurant, at the James Cook Hotel, The Terrace, Wellington.