Scott Ellis
Name: Scott Ellis
Qualifications: B Juris. (UWA), LLB (UWA), LLM (UWA), Professional Certificate in Arbitration (General and Advanced) (Uni. of Adelaide), Diploma in International Commercial Arbitration (Queen Mary College), ChArb. Accredited as a mediator to NMAS standards.
Title: Arbitrator, Mediator, Barrister
Organisation: Francis Burt Chambers
State: WA
Immediation Practice Area: Mediation, Arbitration, Expert Determination
Profile
I am an arbitrator, mediator, expert determiner and barrister at Francis Burt Chambers, Perth.
I have practised as an arbitrator, mediator and expert determiner since 2005, focusing on domestic and international disputes in the infrastructure energy and resources sectors, and on disputes arising under complex statutory frameworks.
I am a Fellow of the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration, the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and Resolution Institute (Grade 1). I am a Chartered Arbitrator. I am the Chairman of the ADR Committee of the Law Society of Western Australia and a member of the Law Council of Australia Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee. I am the Acting Corruption and Crime Commissioner (WA), a member of the Anti-dumping Review Panel (Comm) and a Senior Sessional Member of the State Administrative Tribunal (WA). I am on the Panel of the Economic Regulation Authority of WA under Part 23 of the National Gas Rules and under the Railways (Access) Code and of the Essential Services Commission of South Australia. I am a member of the Board of the Government Employees Superannuation Board (WA).
For a number of years, I was a partner at Freehills (now Herbert Smith Freehills).
Personal Comment
I joined Immediation’s Panel because I want to see the benefits of technology flow through to parties involved in ADR.
Immediation Area(s) of Expertise
● Corporate and commercial (contracts, directors’ duties, energy resources mining, international law, joint ventures, misleading and deceptive conduct/fraud, sport)
● Property, construction, environment, oil, gas and mining (building and construction, compulsory acquisition, oil gas and mining, security of payments)
● Government and administrative law (customs, judicial review and merits review, statutory interpretation)
● Employment, industrial relations and discrimination (employment)