Important COVID-19 Update

These are certainly challenging times for us all.

We are committed to doing everything we can to prioritise the wellbeing of our people, those who use our services and their representatives and the communities we serve to help contain the spread of COVID-19. Following the Prime Minister’s announcement on Saturday, our people will begin working remotely from today, Monday 23 March.

Having well developed online dispute resolution options, it will in many ways be business as usual for us as we focus on providing a seamless service, regardless of where our Registry staff, adjudicators, arbitrators and mediators are working.

We know you are working through similar challenges to ours and that these are uncertain times for everyone. From all of us here we send our thoughts to you, your teams and families.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to get in touch. Please let us know if we can be of further assistance to you and we will keep you informed with any further updates.

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To proceed, the parties will need to confirm their agreement to participate in this process in writing.

To do this, simply complete the form on this page to request our Registry staff to prepare an agreement for you to review and sign.

If the parties have already completed the Early Neutral Evaluation Agreement and you are ready to proceed, simply complete our online application form and we will appoint an evaluator typically within 1-2 working days.

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All parties who wish to use our Early Neutral Evaluation service are required to sign our standard form agreement. Enter your details below and our Registry staff will prepare this for you.

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Neutral Evaluation Revisited

by Royden Hindle [1] Neutral evaluation is a relatively little-used tool in the dispute resolution toolbox. Certainly, it has potential drawbacks: a party who is disappointed by an evaluator’s assessment may be slow to accept the outcome, while a party who feels...