Alternate Dispute Resolution

What is ADR?

Believe it or not there are alternatives to Courts for resolving disputes.

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Some ADR sites

• Bar Assoc, N.S.W. - for a list of barrister mediators
• Australian Commercial Disputes Centre (information about dispute resolution methods, documents and guidelines but its not your local Community Justice Centre)
• Law Society of N.S.W. - details of accredited specialist in mediation

Some books on ADR and negotiation I have found helpful

• Aboriginal Dispute Resolution by Larissa Behrendt, Federation Press, Sydney, 1995 (a brief insight and some suggestions for change)
• Body Language - How to read others' thoughts by their gestures by Allan Pease, Camel Publishing Company, Sydney, 1992 (a practical little book, with handy illustrations)
• Dispute Resolution in Australia by Astor and Chinkin, Butterworths, Sydney, 1992 (a very detailed look at the various alternatives, advantages and disadvantages - recommended because it is not starry-eyed and considers shortfalls in some of the processes)
• Dispute Resolution - Negotiation, Mediation and Other Processes Goldberg, Sander and Rogers, 2nd Ed., Little Brown and Company, Boston, 1992 (a good American text book on various processes)
• Getting to Yes - Negotiating an agreement without giving in by Fisher, Ury and Patton, 2nd Ed., Random Century Australia, 1994 (a product of the Harvard Negotiation Project - a must read)
• The Legal Negotiator - A Handbook for Managing Negotiations More Effectively by Hawkins, Hudson and Cornell, Longman Professional, Melbourne 1993 (very detailed checklist approach to negotiation)
• The Mediation Process - Practical Strategies for Resolving Conflict by Christopher W. Moore, Jossey-Bass Inc., San Francisco, 1986 (a great American text book on the subject)
• The Mediator's Handbook by Ruth Charlton and Micheline Dewdney, Law Book Company, Sydney, 1995 (not a long book but full of practical points)
• Negotiation Skills by Baden Eunson, John Wiley & Son, Brisbane, 1994 (a readable text with a good list tactics)

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