Alan’s Experience

Qualifications
BA (Hons.)(Jurisprudence), University of Oxford, 1963.
MA, University of Oxford, 1968
Master of Dispute Resolution (MDR), University of Technology, Sydney, 1997
Barrister, United Kingdom (Inner Temple), 1964
Legal Practitioner, High Court of Australia and Supreme Courts of the Australian Capital
Territory, New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria 1965-2017
Trained in negotiation and mediation at Harvard University in 1986, 1987 and 1991
Trained in mediation by ACDC, 1986; CDR Associates, Colorado, 1988; Institute of Arbitrators Australia (Advanced), 1989; Law Society of New South Wales (Advanced),1993 and University of Technology, Sydney (Advanced), 1993
Specialist Accredited Mediator, Law Society of NSW, 1995-2017
LEADR Advanced Mediator since 1997 (now Resolution Institute)
Trained in arbitration by the World Intellectual Property Organization, 2000 and 2004 and by the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, 2003-4
Member, Accredited Mediator and Grade 1 Arbitrator, Institute of Arbitrators & Mediators Australia, 2005-2012
Accredited as an Experience Qualified Mediator under the Australian National Mediator Standards since 2008
International Mediation Institute Certified Mediator since 2011

Current positions
Managing Director, Strategic Action Pty Ltd t/a Strategic Resolution
Chairman, Complaints Panel of Consumer Healthcare Products Australia
Assistant lecturer in Negotiation (postgraduate) and Dispute Resolution (undergraduate and postgraduate) at the University of New South Wales
Senior Fellow, Melbourne Law School, teaching Mediation in Practice
Member of several mediation panels around the world
Member of several domain name arbitration panels around the world
Honorary Life Member, Business Law Section, Law Council of Australia
Life Member, the Law Society of New South Wales
Member, International Advisory Board, Afghanistan Centre for Commercial Dispute Resolution

Previous positions
Solicitor and Barrister of the Supreme Court of New South Wales (1970–2017)
Distinguished Fellow, International Academy of Mediators (2016)
Chairman, Medicines Australia Code of Conduct and Appeals Committees (2006-2016)
Chairman, Code Appeals Committee, Medical Technology Association of Australia Limited (2010-2016)
Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Law, The University of Sydney (2009-2010)
Chartered Arbitrator and Fellow, the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (2005-2010)
Professional Dispute Board Member, the Dispute Board Federation (2008-2009)
Chairman, Standing Expert Committee on ADR, Law Council of Australia (member 1989-2009)
Deputy Chairman, National Electricity Tribunal (1998–2007)
Member, Health Services Advisory Committee (2001-2007)
Chairman, Complaints Resolution Panel to determine advertising complaints under the Therapeutic Goods Regulations and member, Therapeutic Goods Advertising Consultative Committee (1998-2006)
Member, Administrative Appeals Tribunal (Commonwealth of Australia) (2001-2004)
Founding member and director of LEADR (now Resolution Institute), (Chairman 1991-1993)
Chairman, Business Law Section of the Law Council of Australia (1987–1989) and of its Trade Practices Committee. Member, Intellectual Property and Customs Law Committees
Member, Advertising Review Expert Committee concerned with Trans-Tasman harmonization of therapeutic goods advertising (2002)
Conciliator under s.89 of the Health Care Complaints Act 1993 (NSW)
Legal advisor to the Medical Services Committee (NSW)
Member, the Australian Institute of Company Directors

Experience
1964-1996 Commercial litigation lawyer in Sydney law firms
1976-1996 Partner, Minter Ellison, Sydney. Chairman, Trade Practices, Intellectual Property and Alternative Dispute Resolution Groups. Wide experience as a litigation lawyer at trial and on appeal in commercial disputes, including intellectual property (trade marks, patents, copyright and confidential information), restrictive trade practices, unfair competition and administrative law.
1996-2017 Solicitor – sole practitioner
Since 2000 Experience in 11 commercial arbitrations raising issues of contractual interpretation, misleading and deceptive conduct, intellectual property rights, international technology licensing, margin lending and estoppel.
Experience as arbitrator in over 800 domain name disputes.
Eight years as initial Chairman of the Complaints Resolution Panel established under the Australian Therapeutic Goods Regulations to determine complaints about the advertising and promotion of therapeutic goods to consumers; and Member, Therapeutic Goods Advertising Consultative Committee.
Three years as a member of the Australian Administrative Appeals Tribunal, in determining appeals from governmental administrative decisions.