About Broderick Mediation.
Phillip Broderick has over 40 years’ legal experience across a wide variety of jurisdictions and areas of legal practice.
Experienced Nationally Accredited Mediator
Magistrate – South Australia for 12 years
Executive Director – Native Title Claim Resolution Unit (Attorney General’s Department South Australia)
Partner – Lempriere Abbott McLeod, handling Local Government and Planning Issues, Agribusiness advice and Native Title
Inaugural Senior Member of the Veterans’ Review Board (Commonwealth)
Vineyard owner and wine maker – involved in the Adelaide Hills regional wine industry since the 1980s.
Mediation is an intervention in a dispute to allow the parties to resolve it through negotiation. When successful it can save them significant costs and is less emotionally charged and stressful than having a dispute arbitrated through a court process determining the outcome. It can empower people to have agency in finding the appropriate solution to the problem and most importantly, it gives them an opportunity to be heard and acknowledged in an environment that is safe, respectful and flexible.
Mediators don’t take sides or offer legal advice. Their role is to facilitate open, honest discussion that will assist the parties to arrive at a mutually agreed resolution of the dispute.
SOLICITOR and or ACCOUNTANT - ASSISTED MEDIATION
Throughout the mediation process solicitors should be non-adversarial and ensure that everyone involved is treated with respect and courtesy.
The mediation process can also involve other professionals such as financial advisors where appropriate.
A mediator cannot give legal advice and must remain neutral and objective throughout the mediation process.
Solicitors/Accountants play a role in preparing the matter and their clients for mediation, and ensuring that the latter come to the mediating table with realistic expectations of the possible outcomes.
Prior to the mediation, solicitors/accountants need to:
Identify the issues in dispute.
Know the case and the possible outcomes, particularly if the matter proceeds to a Court, including the possible legal costs.
Provide a Case Outline that succinctly and accurately sets out the issues in dispute and the proposed outcome.
Prepare their clients and ensure that they come to the table with a flexible, open-minded approach and a willingness to compromise.
Contact us.
Phillip is based in Adelaide and is available to travel throughout South Australia to conduct mediations and offers half day, full day and multi-day options to ensure that people have time to reach a resolution.