Strategy & Experience

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The flexibility and absence of strict procedural rules which typify Arbitral proceedings means that success is dependent of two key factors: Strategy and Experience.

Strategy

Strategy is the key ingredient in any dispute resolution.  Arbitral Tribunals only make decisions on what is put before them and in the way it is put before them.  The process is adversarial.  The parties, with their expert representatives, control what is put before the Arbitrators and how. Strategy makes a difference.

Strategy requires a rapid assessment of the best the client can achieve and how best to achieve that outcome, with the least cost and delay. The implementation of an overall strategy, in turn requires a myriad of strategic decisions along the way.

Experience

Experience is the second critical ingredient.  The conception and implementation of a great strategy, requires the broadest experience – different areas of law, different industries, different Arbitrators and different cultures.

Only coal face experience teaches what works and why, in different places. Not just in devising an overall strategy but in dealing with the unforeseeable events along the way.  An unfortunate document or answer in evidence, needs to be dealt with immediately and effectively.  That ability only comes with the experience of running hundreds of hearings.

Expert Representation

Our Leading Counsel

Our teams of counsel, led by pre-eminent Australian silk Wayne Muddle SC, provides efficient, expert and effective representation with integrity. Our team has decades of experience in arbitrations and trial advocacy throughout Asia and an enviable results record.

Wayne Gordon Muddle S.C., B.Ec., LL.M. (Syd)

Wayne Muddle is Senior Counsel for the State of New South Wales Australia and a Fellow of the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration. A specialist Advocate for over 25 years, he has a vast breadth of experience in national and trans-national disputes world-wide. Prior to becoming a specialist advocate he was an international transactions lawyer with Coudert Bros International Attorneys and Allens + Linklaters.
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Dr Elizabeth Peden S.C., B.A. (Hons), LL.B. (Hons) (Syd), Ph.D. (Camb)

Dr Elizabeth Peden holds First Class degree in law and the University Medal from the University of Sydney and a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge. She is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law. As well as being a widely experienced Advocate, she is Professor of Law at the University of Sydney. Dr Peden is an acknowledged expert in Contract law throughout the common law world and a widely published author.

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