Contracts Dispute Resolution and Arbitration

The workshop covers all aspects of dispute resolution under contracts from drafting dispute resolution clauses to the various dispute resolution options. It will explain each method in detail and then compare them with each other to enable you to assess which best suits your contract and your dispute.

There are many different ways of resolving disputes and they can be used together and separately if they are understood and mastered. Understanding how each method of dispute resolution operates and learning of new methods enables parties to choose the right method and then to use them most effectively.

Which dispute resolution method you choose might depend on how and where the result is to be enforced. The workshop will examine enforcement in various jurisdictions and which method suits your contract.

Key takeaways from attending this workshop:

• Establish the various options for dispute resolution – negotiation, dispute resolution boards, mediation, expert determination, neutral determination, SOP adjudication, arbitration and litigation.
• Assess the best option for resolving your dispute.
• Execute the dispute process confidently.
• Use the dispute resolution process to maximum effect.
• Craft dispute resolution mechanisms to suit your contract and dispute.
• Master the know-how in assisting your lawyers and reduce costs.

• Claims managers
• Commercial managers
• Contracts manager
• Engineers
• In-house counsel
• Lawyers
• Superintendents
• Personnel whose job scope includes contracts drafting, preparation and negotiation.

Workshop Trainer:

Workshop Trainer is presently corporate counsel with Rio Tinto in Singapore, practising general corporate commercial law and disputes.  He was a partner in a law firm and then a barrister at the independent Bar in Australia, practising in commercial and administrative litigation. He later became Head of Dispute Resolution for four States for National Australia Bank. He was later special counsel with Downer Group in Australia and in Singapore, managing a large construction arbitration under SIAC rules.

In 2011 he was acting Head of Legal for Oyu Tolgoi LLC, a Rio Tinto company in Mongolia where he oversaw a team of 10 lawyers working on the construction of the world’s largest copper and gold mine and led large construction projects including a $1bn power station in the Gobi Desert.

He is a registered adjudicator under a Security of Payment scheme in Australia and has conducted some 14 adjudications under that scheme.  He is Chair of the SIAC Users Council Committee for Australia and New Zealand and a Member of the SIAC Users Council Executive Committee.

He has been the Editor-in-Chief of the Northern Territory Law Reports for over 10 years and the Executive Editor of the Northern Territory Law Journal since its inception in 2007.  He was founding Editor-in-Chief of the Australian Capital Territory Law Reports and a State editor of the Australian Insurance Law Bulletin. 

He has had a number of articles published in law journals, including a 20,000 word paper on security of payment in Australia that was influential in changing the court’s interpretation:  [In]Security of payment (2010) 1 NTLJ 165. He regularly writes notes of all Northern Territory Supreme Court decisions for the Law Society magazine and the Northern Territory Law Journal.  He has taught Civil Procedure at university and is a member of the Singapore Law Society’s Publications and ADR Committees.

Workshop Trainer is an arbitrator on the arbitration panels of:

• Singapore International Arbitration Centre
• Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre
• Kuala Lumpur Regional Arbitration Centre
• Beijing Arbitration Commission
• Singapore Institute of Arbitrators

List of publications written by Workshop Trainer:

• A guide to investigating construction disputes – CCH Construction Service
• Security of payment (2010) 1 NTLJ 165
• Advocates’ liability for wasted costs (2005) 16 ILJ 153
• The Territories and Kirk v Industrial Relations Commission (2011) 2 NTLJ 28
• The court’s duty to ascertain jurisdiction (2011) 2 NLTJ 13
• Double jeopardy in Crown appeals (2012) 2 NTLJ 176
• Spirit of civil procedure reforms bites (2012) 2 NTLJ 227

Exclusive Case Studies:

The various dispute resolution methods will be illustrated using a case study of disputes arising out of the construction for a joint venture of a combined cycle power plant at an onshore LNG facility.

Exclusive Key Highlights:

• Overview of dispute resolution for contracts
• Types of disputes
• Drafting dispute resolution clauses
• Negotiation
• Mediation
• Security of Payment
• Neutral determination
• Expert determination
• Arbitration
• Litigation
• Enforcement

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