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)