‘New’ Arbitration List in the County Court
Take this opportunity to hear the County Court of Victoria speak about its recently launched Arbitration List and be informed on how it will operate in practice. WEB227V55
Description
Attend and earn 1.5 CPD units in Substantive Law
This program is based on VIC legislation
The County Court of Victoria has recently launched a new Arbitration List. Information about the Arbitration List and applications for referral to arbitration can be found in the new County Court of Victoria Commercial Division Practice Note 1 of 2022 and the Arbitration Referral Information Sheet.
The County Court is working with Arbitration Victoria, Resolution Institute and the Victorian Commercial Arbitration Scheme, schemes offering fixed fee, fixed time to award arbitrations which may assist parties in lower value claims and in building and construction matters initiated in VCAT, to have their matters resolved through Arbitration.
Take an opportunity to hear direct from the Supreme Court and County Court of Victoria, on how the new List operates, the various schemes on offer and the County Court’s Arbitration List.
Facilitator:
Ben Murphy, Barrister, Foley’s List
Panellists:
The Hon. Justice Croft AM, Supreme Court of Victoria
Her Honour Judge Brimer, Judge in Charge of the Arbitration List,
Her Honour Judge Burchell, Judge in Charge of the Building Cases List, Victorian County Court
Presenters
Ben Murphy
Ben Murphy practises in commercial law and appears in all jurisdictions in the Commonwealth of Australia. Ben has over 20 years' experience representing clients involved in a variety of disputes (interlocutory, trial and appeal) concerning: contract law; Corporations law; property law; building, construction and infrastructure disputes; the Australian Consumer Law; equity and trust law; and family law property disputes.
The Hon Justice Croft AM
The Hon Justice Clyde Croft AM was, from 2009 to 2019, a Judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria and was the Judge in charge of the Arbitration List in the Commercial Court of the Supreme Court. Sitting in the Arbitration List, Justice Croft delivered many important and critical judgments developing arbitral jurisprudence on the UNCITRAL Model Law as it now applies in Australia. He was appointed a Reserve Judge of the Supreme Court in 2021. Justice Croft is also a Professor in the Monash University Law Faculty and Convenor of the Monash Law Commercial Disputes Group. He is also an independent international and national commercial arbitrator and mediator. Prior to his Court appointment in 2009, Justice Croft commanded a very extensive practice at the Bar in property and commercial law and as an arbitrator and mediator in property, construction and commercial disputes, nationally and internationally. He was appointed Senior Counsel in 2000 and holds the degrees of BEc, LLB and LLM from Monash University and PhD from the University of Cambridge. Justice Croft chairs the Expert Advisory Committee of the UNCITRAL National Coordination Committee of Australia (UNCCA), which supports UNCITRAL Working Group II (Arbitration and Conciliation), and has done so since May 2018. He represented the Asia Pacific Regional Arbitration Group (APRAG) at UNCITRAL Working Group II sessions from 2005 to 2010, revising the UNCITRAL Model Law and the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules. On the basis of this UNCITRAL work he co-authored A Guide to the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules (Cambridge University Press, 2013). Justice Croft is also a co-author of two editions of Australian Commercial Arbitration (LexisNexis, 2015 and 2021) and is the author or co-author of many leading national texts in the fields of commercial and retail leases, mortgages and securities and equity. He is a Life Fellow of the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (ACICA), a Life Fellow of the Resolution Institute (incorporating the Institute of Arbitrators and Mediators Australia), and a Fellow of the Arbitrators’ and Mediators’ Institute of New Zealand (AMINZ), the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, the Australian Academy of Law and UNCCA.
Her Honour Judge Brimer
Judge Brimer was admitted to practice in 1994 and came to the Bar in 1999. Her Honour’s contribution to the Bar includes serving on Bar Council and several important committees, including the Readers’ Course Committee and as an instructor in the Readers’ Course. She is the co-author, with the Hon George Hampel AM KC of Ethics & Etiquette for Advocates and with the Hon George Hampel AM KC and Randall Kune of the Advocacy Manual.
Her Honour Judge Burchell
Sharon studied at Murdoch University (Western Australia) where she also obtained a Double Degree with Honours in Law and Economics. She received the Vice Chancellor's Commendation for Academic Excellence Award and the Sir Ronald Wilson Prize in Law. Sharon was admitted in March of 2001, serving articles at Blake Dawson Waldron (now Ashurst). She then Completed Associateships with Justice David Habersberger of the Supreme Court, and then Justice Susan Kenny of the Federal Court. Sharon was called to the Victorian Bar in April 2004 where she read with the now Judge Samantha Marks KC and practiced in all areas of commercial law. In 2014 she won the Junior Counsel Award, as part of the Lawyers Weekly - Women in the Law Awards, which recognises outstanding contributions to the legal profession of female barristers within their first 10 years of practice at the Bar. On 5 May 2015, Sharon was appointed by the Governor in Council as a Judicial Registrar of the Commercial Division of the County Court of Victoria along with Judicial Registrar Tran in an innovative job share arrangement.