Marc specialises in family , commercial law and Body Corporate mediation and has extensive qualifications and experience in assisting participants to arrive at a resolution that all parties can live with. Marc can assist clients to resolve family and commercial disputes:
Family and Commercial Mediation Expertise
Marc is a registered Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner with the Department of the Federal Attorney-General, pursuant to the Family Law Act 1975 (Cth), is a nationally accredited mediator and holds a Master of Laws (Litigation & Dispute Resolution), with a specialisation in mediation, from The University of Queensland.
As a neutral, impartial and skilled professional, Marc understands that it is important for parties to work towards outcomes that are lasting, sustainable and realistic, with a view to achieving those goals in the most cost-effective and fastest way possible.
As a neutral, impartial and skilled professional, Marc understands that it is important for parties to work towards outcomes that are lasting, sustainable and realistic, with a view to achieving those goals in the most cost-effective and fastest way possible.
Why mediate?
Mediation is:
Cost-effective
Cost-effective
- Provides the parties with a safe environment to achieve optimal outcomes
- Fast and allows parties to avoid lengthy court processes
- Confidential and allows parties to privately reach agreed outcomes
- Flexible and can be conducted irrespective of the location of the parties, may be conducted in various modes (face-to-face, shuttle where parties are in different rooms, teleconference or Skype, or mixed modes as required), at their convenience
- Conducted in a relaxed and private manner
- Informal and allows the parties to discuss and reach outcomes that the parties can live with
- Enables the parties to achieve a lasting solution to the dispute through skilled facilitation
- Allows the parties to more effectively communicate at a difficult time.
Mediation GUARANTEE
Subject to the availability of the parties, you are guaranteed to mediate within 5 business days.
The process is simple, streamlined and flexible, and ensures maximal inclusiveness of the parties.
The process is simple, streamlined and flexible, and ensures maximal inclusiveness of the parties.
Marc assists parties to
FOR FAMILY DISPUTES:
FOR COMMERCIAL DISPUTES
- Carefully identify and clarify issues
- Navigate through difficult matters relating to children and property
- Assist the parties to generate viable and realistic settlement options
- Draft agreements relating to property and child arrangements, including:
- Arrive at viable and realistic financial agreements
- Facilitate the agreement in relation to parenting plans
- Prepare court-ready draft consent orders
FOR COMMERCIAL DISPUTES
- Carefully identify and clarify issues
- Assist parties to achieve fair commercial outcomes
- Facilitate the resolution of contractual and partnership disputes
- Facilitate parties to achieve satisfactory resolution of workplace deputes
How are outcomes achieved
Marc provides the parties with an environment which is conducive to achieving best outcomes by providing:
- An understanding, supportive and courteous environment to the parties
- A high level of professionalism
- Neutral, impartial, objective and unbiased facilitation of your matter
- Expertise, particularly in the drafting of parenting agreements and draft consent orders
Family mediatioN
Marc assists parties in family disputes on matters such as:
- Parenting Plans
- Changes to parenting plans and parenting agreements
- Section 60I Certificates
- Financial agreements
- Draft consent orders
- Interim negotiations
Section 60I certificates (family mediations)
Where a party is unable or unwilling to mediate, or the matter is deemed to be unsuitable for mediation, Marc is empowered to issue a section 60I Certificate to enable the matter to progress to the Family Court.
When family mediation is not SUITABLE
Family mediation will be deemed not suitable where there is:
- A history of domestic violence or intimidation by one or both parties
- Power imbalances sufficient to hinder the participation of a party to the mediation process
- Legal issues requiring interpretation of a document(s), or there is a need for an urgent injunction.
Where a matter is deemed to not be appropriate for mediation, Marc will issue a section 60I certificate under the Family Law Act to reflect the circumstance.
Commercial mediation
Parties involved in commercial disputes can take advantage of facilitative early intervention in the form of Commercial Mediation. Often, commercial parties may require assistance to resolve matters ranging from contractual misunderstandings to serious contractual breaches.
The benefit of Commercial Mediation affords the parties a safe and reliable forum in which the matters in dispute can be distilled, identified and narrowed so as to meaningfully arrive at commercially viable solutions.
The ability to facilitate a mediated outcome against the backdrop of Corporations Law, Partnership Law, Contract Law, and Property Law is indispensable when the parties are seeking mediate outcomes that are:
Marc assists commercial parties to reach resolution on matters such as:
Whilst, Marc is not engaged to provide legal advice, parties gain the benefit of a neutral third party intermediary that can view complex commercial disputes with a legal lens to assist parties to arrive at sustainable and realistic outcomes.
Marc is completely capable of interfacing with legally represented and self-represented parties.
The benefit of Commercial Mediation affords the parties a safe and reliable forum in which the matters in dispute can be distilled, identified and narrowed so as to meaningfully arrive at commercially viable solutions.
The ability to facilitate a mediated outcome against the backdrop of Corporations Law, Partnership Law, Contract Law, and Property Law is indispensable when the parties are seeking mediate outcomes that are:
- Practical
- Workable
- Enforceable
- Meet the needs of the parties to the greatest extent possible
Marc assists commercial parties to reach resolution on matters such as:
- Contractual disputes
- Employment disputes
- Workplace bullying
- Partnership matters
- Trade disputes
Whilst, Marc is not engaged to provide legal advice, parties gain the benefit of a neutral third party intermediary that can view complex commercial disputes with a legal lens to assist parties to arrive at sustainable and realistic outcomes.
Marc is completely capable of interfacing with legally represented and self-represented parties.
body corporate mediatioN
Bodies Corporate in Queensland are governed by the Body Corporate and Community Management Act 1997 (Qld) (BCCMA) and associated regulation modules. The BCCMA provides for statutory dispute resolution as administered by the Body Corporate Commissioner Office, consisting of conciliation, adjudication and specialist forms of those models.
Marc's Dispute Resolution processes, known as Dispute Resolution Intervention or DRI provide a means of resolving simple or complicated disputes in relation to matters that fall within the jurisdiction of the BCCMA as well as outside of it.
Marc's Dispute Resolution processes, known as Dispute Resolution Intervention or DRI provide a means of resolving simple or complicated disputes in relation to matters that fall within the jurisdiction of the BCCMA as well as outside of it.
How DRI works & who we work with
The mediation processes involve one or more of the following mediation strategies, which are utilised at applicable moments during the mediation session:
Examples of matters in which the DRI processes are particularly effective are as follows:
1. Disputes that fall within the BCCMA jurisdiction –
2. Disputes where there is no BCCMA jurisdiction
Because Marc is expert in Body Corporate Law, he can provide meaningful facilitation of a dispute resolution outcome that meets the needs of the interests of the parties in a sensitive, practical and holistic manner.
Marc works with body corporate committees, caretakers and their legal representatives (as applicable) to reach goals that the parties can move forward in a cost-effective, meaningful and positive way.
- Facilitative
- Therapeutic
- Transformative
- Speciality
- Technical
Examples of matters in which the DRI processes are particularly effective are as follows:
1. Disputes that fall within the BCCMA jurisdiction –
- Maintenance;
- By-Laws (eg. animals, vehicles, noise);
- Nuisances;
- Lot owner improvements.
2. Disputes where there is no BCCMA jurisdiction
- Caretaker and management rights;
- Contractual matters;
- Neighbour disputes; (eg. dividing fences, trees, nuisances other than s.167 BCCMA);
- Debts other than BC debts (QCAT, BCCM);
- Statutory Obligations (non-BCCMA);
- Common Law breaches; (eg. Defamation, Trespass, damages, economic loss)
Because Marc is expert in Body Corporate Law, he can provide meaningful facilitation of a dispute resolution outcome that meets the needs of the interests of the parties in a sensitive, practical and holistic manner.
Marc works with body corporate committees, caretakers and their legal representatives (as applicable) to reach goals that the parties can move forward in a cost-effective, meaningful and positive way.
Why choose Marc as your mediator
Marc has been a nationally accredited mediator since the inception of such accreditation and practicing since 2004.
Marc is registered with the Federal Attorney-General's Department as a Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner, and has been mediating in Family Law disputes since 2008. As such, Marc is able to issue Section 60I Certificates, pursuant to the Family Law Act 1975 (Cth).
In specialising in Alternative Dispute Resolution, Marc commenced a Ph.D at The University of Queensland, concurrently engaging in conciliation work at the Residential Tenancies Authority as a Senior Conciliator, and then as a Conciliator at the Office of the Commissioner for Body Corporate and Community Management. Marc was also manager of the BCCM conciliation service for a period during 2007, during which he conducted complex conciliations concerning the jurisdiction of the Body Corporate and Community Management Act 1997 (Qld), associated regulation modules and other closely-related legislation. In his time as Conciliator, Marc was also involved in the development of policy within the Department, including the creation of the Department Conciliator’s Code of Conduct and other processes involving the interpretation of legal provisions defining the role of Conciliator and conciliation practice.
Marc was further appointed as Principal Conciliator with the Anti-Discrimination Commission in Queensland, where he had carriage of highly complex and media-sensitive matters, often involving body corporate schemes as a party.
During his position as Senior Conciliator in the Residential Tenancies Authority and Conciliator at the Office of the Commissioner for Body Corporate and Community Management, Marc gained expert knowledge of the respective legislation administered by those bodies and remains an expert in the field of Alternative Dispute Resolution.
In private practice, Marc has assisted parties in family and commercial mediations and negotiations since 2002 in represented and self-represented matters, and has developed a reputation for strong ethics, skill and professionalism, with a keen eye for assisting parties to arrive at resolutions that are lasting, sustainable, realistic, providing for time and cost savings to the standard litigation processes.
Engage Marc to assist you in your matter.