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Overview
Hollingdales provide commercial law advice, mediation and facilitation and other alternative dispute resolution services.
Commercial Law Advice
Hollingdales offer legal advice on:
- Building and construction contracts
- Major infrastructure project delivery methods
- Procurement processes
- Commercial disputes, including representing parties in negotiation, mediation, expert determination, arbitration and litigation.
Mediation Service
Hollingdales offer a mediation service to help parties resolve their commercial disputes. The firm accepts appointment from law firms, in-house corporate counsel and company executives.
Hollingdales mediate on a wide variety of disputes, including:
- Building defects
- Delay and disruption claims
- Environment and planning issues
- Farm debt
- Family law property division
- Franchises
- Inheritance
- Intellectual property
- Inter-governmental department disputes over policy
- Joint ventures
- Mining tenements
- Mining operations
- Misleading and deceptive conduct
- Partnerships
- Planning and environment
- Procurement process
- Retail leasing
- Sale of business
- Shareholder issues
- Wills and succession
- Variation claims on a variety of construction and development projects.
Facilitation Service
Hollingdales offer a facilitation service. This service includes:
- Commercial contract negotiations
- Contract re-negotiations and insolvent trading safe harbour
- Early neutral evaluation (ENE)
- Expert conclave as a facilitator/recorder
- Family conference facilitation - when family members hold a family conference the facilitator chairs the meeting. The conference may be held to clarify sensitive matters for succession/estate or other planning purposes. Particularly helpful for family business succession planning, including farming businesses
- Facilitation of major project contract negotiations following selection of preferred proponent
- Group meeting facilitation: a group may be a board of a company or institution (public or private), professional associations, schools, and include shareholders or other stakeholders who seek a neutral facilitator/chair to assist them to clarify or resolve issues or set direction.
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 or hybrid 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) - Advisory or Avoidance or Adjudication/Review or Resolution boards
- Early Neutral Evaluation (ENE)
- Expert determination for construction claim disputes
- Expert appraisal for construction claim disputes.