Mediation Division

The Mediaton Division's Aims

• Engineering accord
• Generating best possible negotiated outcomes
• The restoration of commercial and civil relationships
• Delivery of expedited dispute resolution solutions
• The arresting of financial deterioration

Our Theatres of Conflict Resolution

• Major civil claims
• Construction and engineering disputes
• Governmental disputes
• Military disputes
• Cross-jurisdictional disputes
• Insurance disputes

Assurances

• Sensitivity and confidentiality
• Accessibility and mobility
• Respect, courtesy and integrity

Our Mediators & Facilitators

Professor Kim Lovegrove is a trained mediator that can be engaged to mediate in commercial, civil and insurance disputes.

Collectively Lovegrove has over 50 years of dispute resolution experience and have the skills and the bearing to resolve conflict and affect accord.

Professor Kim Lovegrove - Mediator

• Lawyer, mediator and dispute resolution facilitator
• 24 years in dispute resolution
• A past Chair of a State registration and disciplinary Tribunal; the Victorian Building Practitioners Board (presided over registration of 24,000 practitioners; ministerial appointee)
• Past legal Chair of a Municipal Association presiding over misconduct of elected officials.
• Author/co-writer of 15 legal texts, Disciplinary Hearings & Advocacy, Micro-Economic Reform Management, Lovegrove on Building Control, to name a few.
• Past President of Australian Institute of Building Vic
• Co-opted Board member, NZIOB
• Past senior civil servant in Federal and Victorian State Governments
• Of diplomatic lineage, the late Dr Malcolm Lovegrove (father) and the late Norman Lovegrove (grandfather) held senior UN positions in Africa.
• Expert on construction law, law reform, disciplinary advocacy and decision making, dispute resolution, internationally recognized expert in law reform and micro-economic reform.

Geographical Theatres of Operation

Australia, New Zealand, sub-Saharan Africa, Southern Africa

The Lovegrove Solicitors E - Library

There are over 200 articles on the Lovegrove Soilicitors E - Library. To access articles on Lovegrove Solicitors mediation division and other topics click E - Library.

Publications and Dispute Resolution Library

For published articles and conference papers on mediation and dispute resolution, click Dispute Resolution Library.

Mediation Contractual Template Conditions

Professor Lovegrove once drafted the mediation clause for a contract that he co-authored in collaboration and for the Law Institute of Victoria and the Victorian Law Reform Commission.

To download this mediation clause click here.