Emily Dewberry
Name: Emily Dewberry
Qualifications: BA; LLB(Hons); Neuroawareness* for Mediation; Fellow (Advanced Mediator) Resolution Institute; International Accredited Mediator (IMI); LIV Accredited Specialist in Mediation; CINERGY Conflict Management Coach.
Title: Mediator
Organisation: Dewberry Mediations Pty Ltd
State: Victoria
Immediation Practice Area: Mediation
Profile
I am a Nationally Accredited Advanced Mediator with the Resolution Institute and a recognised member of the International Mediation Institute. In 2019, I was a finalist for Australian Mediator of the Year. I am driven by excellence and a commitment to creating new paths to better results.
I am a practising lawyer who has more experience at the negotiation table than most as a client, as a lawyer and as a mediator. I understand what it takes to resolve a dispute and am proactive about getting the parties there. I have experience in a broad range of commercial and insurance litigation including in the areas of contract disputes, public liability, personal injury, professional negligence, medical malpractice, financial services litigation, defamation actions, workplace disputes, superannuation claims, property damage, product claims, partnership dissolutions and institutional abuse.
Professional Memberships:
Resolution Institute
Australian Insurance Lawyers Association
Australian Lawyers Alliance
Australian Professional Indemnity Group
Victorian Women Lawyers Association
Law Institute of Victoria
Personal Comment
What I love most about mediation is that the parties have complete autonomy to decide what an acceptable outcome is to them. Those in the dispute are best placed to know where the answer is.
Immediation Area(s) of Expertise
Banking and Finance (Banking, Bankruptcy and insolvency, Consumer credit, Financial instruments, Financial regulation, Fringe benefits tax, GST, Income tax, Insurance, Land tax, Mortgages, Payroll tax, Personal Property Securities Register, Reinsurance, Stamp duty, Superannuation, Taxation – Federal, Taxation – State)
Common law and professional regulation (Medical negligence, Medical regulation, Negligence, Personal injury, Professional negligence, Torts)
Corporate and commercial (ACCC, Advertising, Agency, Agribusiness, ASIC, Automotive, Competition law, Consumer credit, Consumer protection, Contracts, Corporations, Directors’ duties, Energy resources mining, Equipment finance, Foreign Investment Review Board, Franchising, Health, International law, Joint Ventures, Liquor licensing, Listing rules, Mergers and acquisitions, Misleading advertising, Misleading and deceptive conduct/fraud, Partnership, Private equity, Product liability, Securities regulation, Shareholder remedies, Sport, Takeovers, Unconscionable conduct)
Employment, industrial relations and discrimination (Awards, Discrimination, Employment, Equal opportunity, Industrial action, Occupational Health and Safety, Workers’ compensation)
Government and administrative law (Civil liabilities, Commonwealth employment, Crown liability, Customs, Freedom of Information (FOI), Immigration, Judicial review and merits review, Privacy, Probity, Public administration and governance, Social security, Statutory interpretation)
Intellectual property, Information technology and media (Copyright, Defamation, Information technology, Intellectual property, Media and entertainment, Moral rights, Patents, Plant breeders’ rights, Procurement, Telecommunications)
Property, construction, environment, oil, gas and mining (Building and construction, Commercial leasing, Compulsory acquisition, Environmental regulation, Franchising, Local government, Native title, Oil gas and mining, Owners Corporation, Property, Residential leasing, Restrictive covenants, Retail leasing, Security of payments, Town planning)
Wills, estates and charities (Charities, Equity, Family provisions, Guardianship, Trusts, Wills estates probate and administration)