Month: June 2019
Arbitrator – Like having Solomon on Steroids for Commercial Disputes
Arbitration is an excellent private dispute resolution option for individuals and businesses in dispute. The parties agree to appoint an independent person – the Arbitrator (who should be an expert in the subject matter of the dispute) to make a binding decision on the issues in dispute. The Arbitrator gathers information, using documents and/or in […]
Read MoreAlternative Dispute Resolution – The ADR Story
Alternative Dispute Resolution (“ADR”) describes any process used to settle or resolve disputes that is not court-based litigation (ie: it’s an “alternative”). Alternative Dispute Resolution has a long history however, ADR was not widely adopted in Australia until the early 1990s – when politicians and judges acknowledged that our court systems had become so slow, […]
Read MoreAdvisory Boards – The “Great Leap Forward” for Business Families
Establishing an Advisory Board (or “Advisory Committee”) is one of the easiest, quickest, cheapest and most effective measures any family business can take to improve the quality of its thinking, planning, problem solving and general decision-making. The concept is simple: an Advisory Board is an identifiable body, established by a family to help it make […]
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