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Domestic conferences & seminars

Date

Location

Details
Christchurch:
7 April 2015
2.00pm – 5.00pm 

Wellington:
8 April 
9.00am – 12.00 noon       

Auckland:
13 April 2015
2.00 – 5.00pm		 Christchurch, Wellington and  Auckland (exact locations TBC).

Essential Construction Contracts Issues: An Update With Mark Colthart and John Walton


Project managers in infrastructure, building and construction, Engineers, Quantity Surveyors, Adjudicators, Solicitors and Barristers.

Programme:

The payment cycle:
  • what is required for a valid payment claim? 
  • what is required for a valid payment schedule - is a letter enough? 
  • are counter-claims and set-offs allowed? 
  • there is no payment schedule, how do you recover?  
     
Securing payment for contractors and subcontractors:
  • where are the amendments to the Construction Contracts Act at? 
  • securing retentions 
  • alternative protections 
 
Initiating and enforcing adjudication: 
  • procedural issues around adjudication jurisdiction 
  • damages, costs and interest enforcement
     
Find out more and register on the AMINZ website.


Past Events:

Access information/notes/papers/videos relating to past events here.

2012

Date

Location

Details
22 February 2012 Auckland,  NZ

AMINZ ARBITRATION SEMINAR

Sponsored by NZDRC and LexisNexis

Time: 1pm – 5.30pm
Location: Northern Club

This seminar will cover
  • Managing document disclosure in arbitration
  • International Convention for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) Arbitration
  • Counsels' Views of the Arbitrator and Arbitrators' Views of the Counsel
For more information CLICK HERE
To download a copy of the program CLICK HERE
12 March 2012 Wellington, NZ

AMINZ CONDUCTING SAFE INVESTIGATIONS

This practical one day seminar will include short lectures, interactive workshops and practice exercises. Written materials to assist you to conduct a safe investigation will be supplied. Post-seminar mentoring is also available on request.

Topics covered include:
  • The fundamentals of a safe investigation
  • Relevant legislation and case law
  • Preparing for and scoping an investigation
  • Convening the investigation
  • The role of the investigator
  • Investigation process
  • Writing the report
  • Solving difficult scenarios
  • Whistle-blowing
  • Using internal or external investigators
  • Post investigation support

For more information and/or to register CLICK HERE
16 – 18 March 2012 Wellington, NZ

AMINZ RURAL DISPUTES SEMINAR

This intensive seminar will help develop in-depth tools to assist anyone with a rural dispute resolution practice or anyone wanting to more fully understand how to deal with disputes in the rural context. It will review and update a broad range of practical and technical material.

To download a copy of the draft program CLICK HERE
For more information and/or to register  CLICK HERE
23 March 2012 Christchurch, NZ

AMINZ A PRACTICAL WORKSHOP FOR MEDIATORS AND NEGOTIATORS

EFFECTIVELY DEAL WITH EMOTION IN EMPLOYMENT, FAMILY AND OTHER RELATIONSHIP DISPUTES

This workshop will enable you to:
  • Have a greater awareness about your own response to conflict situations
  • Increase your knowledge of the theory of emotion
  • Provide you with practical tools and ways of working with high emotion
  • To practice and improve the way you manage high emotion

The workshop will include:
  • Tools to assess and understand own emotional responses and those of others
  • Small group role playing
  • Theory of emotion to help you understand what may be happening to the participants and what options may be available to you
  • Course material

For more information and/or to register CLICK HERE
27 March 2012 Hamilton, NZ

AMINZ A PRACTICAL WORKSHOP FOR MEDIATORS AND NEGOTIATORS

EFFECTIVELY DEAL WITH EMOTION IN EMPLOYMENT, FAMILY AND OTHER RELATIONSHIP DISPUTES

This workshop will enable you to:
  • Have a greater awareness about your own response to conflict situations
  • Increase your knowledge of the theory of emotion
  • Provide you with practical tools and ways of working with high emotion
  • To practice and improve the way you manage high emotion

The workshop will include:
  • Tools to assess and understand own emotional responses and those of others
  • Small group role playing
  • Theory of emotion to help you understand what may be happening to the participants and what options may be available to you
  • Course material

For more information and/or to register CLICK HERE
29 March 2012 Wellington, NZ

AMINZ A PRACTICAL WORKSHOP FOR MEDIATORS AND NEGOTIATORS

EFFECTIVELY DEAL WITH EMOTION IN EMPLOYMENT, FAMILY AND OTHER RELATIONSHIP DISPUTES

This workshop will enable you to:
  • Have a greater awareness about your own response to conflict situations
  • Increase your knowledge of the theory of emotion
  • Provide you with practical tools and ways of working with high emotion
  • To practice and improve the way you manage high emotion

The workshop will include:
  • Tools to assess and understand own emotional responses and those of others
  • Small group role playing
  • Theory of emotion to help you understand what may be happening to the participants and what options may be available to you
  • Course material

For more information and/or to register CLICK HERE
27 April 2012 Christchurch, NZ

AMINZ CONDUCTING SAFE INVESTIGATIONS

This practical one day seminar will include short lectures, interactive workshops and practice exercises. Written materials to assist you to conduct a safe investigation will be supplied. Post-seminar mentoring is also available on request.

Topics covered include:
  • The fundamentals of a safe investigation
  • Relevant legislation and case law
  • Preparing for and scoping an investigation
  • Convening the investigation
  • The role of the investigator
  • Investigation process
  • Writing the report
  • Solving difficult scenarios
  • Whistle-blowing
  • Using internal or external investigators
  • Post investigation support

For more information and/or to register CLICK HERE
1 May 2012 Auckland, NZ

AMINZ CONDUCTING SAFE INVESTIGATIONS

This practical one day seminar will include short lectures, interactive workshops and practice exercises. Written materials to assist you to conduct a safe investigation will be supplied. Post-seminar mentoring is also available on request.

Topics covered include:
  • The fundamentals of a safe investigation
  • Relevant legislation and case law
  • Preparing for and scoping an investigation
  • Convening the investigation
  • The role of the investigator
  • Investigation process
  • Writing the report
  • Solving difficult scenarios
  • Whistle-blowing
  • Using internal or external investigators
  • Post investigation support

For more information and/or to register CLICK HERE
2nd-4th August 2012 Wellington. NZ

AMINZ ANNUAL CONFERENCE - "GLOBAL TO LOCAL"

The AMINZ Conference is the only national dispute resolution conference held annually. A comprehensive programme, over 2 1/2 days, with concurrent streams in consensual and determinative processes and many networking opportunities means that the conference attracts dispute resolution professionals from around New Zealand and around the globe.

This year the Advisory Council of the United Nations Convention on the International Sale of Goods will convene in Wellington, to coincide with Conference. The Advisory Council members will be part of the conference programme.

CLICK HERE for more information about the conference and a call for papers

For further information and updates on the programme CLICK HERE
     

 

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