Services

Mediation, facilitation and commercial law advice

Hollingdales provide commercial law advice, mediation and facilitation and other alternative dispute resolution services.

A wide range of services. One common goal

At Hollingdales, our primary focus is resolving disputes with minimal disruption or impact. Whether it’s help with bitter family estate disputes, a breakdown in contract negotiations, or a cost-effective alternative to litigation, you can trust us to bring parties closer together for a smoother resolution.

Mediation Services

We offer a mediation service to help parties resolve their commercial disputes. We work directly with clients, or can be appointed by law firms, in-house corporate counsel and company executives.

Hollingdales mediates on a wide variety of disputes, including:

Building & construction
Consumer law
Corp
Environment and planning
Employment
Farm debt
Franchising
Intellectual property
Inter-governmental department disputes over policy
Joint ventures
Leasing, including COVID-19 relief
Mining - operations & tenements
Misleading and deceptive conduct
Partnerships
Planning and environment
Procurement process
Sale of business
Shareholder issues
Wills and estates

Facilitation Services

Our facilitation service gets all parties together so they can frankly discuss individual assumptions, concerns and intentions. Our role is to chair the discussions as a neutral and dispassionate facilitator, helping everyone to agree to a plan that is fair, workable and respected. We then assist in making sure the negotiated outcome is properly documented.

This service includes:

Commercial contract negotiations
Contract re-negotiations, including during insolvent trading safe harbour
Expert conclave as a facilitator and recorder of areas of agreement and unresolved technical questions
Family conference facilitation - when family members hold a family conference the facilitator convenes, sets the agenda and chairs the meeting.
Facilitation of major project contract negotiations
Group meeting facilitation: a group may be a board of a company or institution (public or private), professional associations, schools. Acting as a neutral facilitator/chair, Michael can assist them to clarify or resolve issues or set a new direction
Recommending suitable experts to advise on options and document the outcome

Additional Dispute Resolution Processes

In addition to mediation and facilitation, Hollingdales can provide a neutral dispute resolution practitioner in a combination of the following processes:

Agenda setting and advising on conflict management issues and practical dispute avoidance steps and strategies
Arb-Med or Arb-Med-Arb:
Chairing experts' conclave (sometimes referred to as 'hot-tubbing') for the purpose of producing a joint experts’ report for use in mediation or court/arbitration proceedings
Independent Chair to help groups conduct effective meetings
Conciliation, either stand alone or following negotiation or mediation
Dispute Boards (DAB/DRB) – for major infrastructure projects
Early Neutral Evaluation (ENE)
Expert appraisal for construction claim disputes
Expert determination

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