People are capable of taking responsibility for their disputes and working to resolve them in constructive ways.
My professional life is focused on working with people who seek to resolve their disputes in a constructive and respectful way. My mediation practice is based on a belief that all people have resources within themselves to resolve the disputes they face. More than that I believe that people are capable of taking responsibility for their disputes and working to resolve them in constructive ways.
I work primarily as a full time family accredited mediator (HKMAAL) and general accredited mediator (HKIAC, and HKMAAL), NMAS (Australia), FINRA (USA) and CEDR) and conflict management coach. I am also a Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (UK).
Problem solving, reducing risk and seeking ways to turn issues into opportunities.
For 18 years, my work centered on problem solving, reducing risk and seeking ways to turn issues into opportunities. My background as a solicitor and in investment banking has been invaluable to me in understanding how conflict can create chaos, destroy relationships and limit outcomes.
I realize how few innate skills I had when I entered the workforce over 20 years ago. Reflecting now I can see how useful mediation skills and knowledge would have been to me in trying to navigate through my own personal, workplace and business conflicts. My experience at the Straus Institute completing my LLM was transformational and marked the beginning of a journey. Since those early steps, I have completed family mediation training in Hong Kong and Australia, worked as an apprentice with Robyn Hooworth in Hong Kong and continued to develop and deepen my learning and skills.
As an adjunct lecturer in the LLM programme at HKU, I have the opportunity to work with students committed to starting their ADR journey as I teach family mediation and financial dispute resolution. I was a member of the Organizing Committee for the Children’s Issues Forum (2015-2020) in Hong Kong.
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Publications
- Mediation in Hong Kong: Law and Practice co-authored with James Chiu and Christopher To (1st edition 2014) (2nd edition 2022)
- Annotated Ordinances – Mediation Ordinance (Cap. 620) Lexis Nexis (2014)
- Reforming Hong Kong’s Child & Family Justice System co-edited with Anne Scully-Hill and Katherine Lynch
- The International Family Law Survey 2018 (Intersentia) Hong Kong’s Chapter 11
- UNCITRAL Convention – Mediation’s Big Bang: Can Mediation Challenge Arbitration’s Dominance? (2019) 30 ADRJ 51
- Modern Mediation: Equity’s Heir? originally delivered as the Mediation Lecture for Hong Kong Legal Week 2021 and published in the Ohio State Journal of Dispute Resolution (2022) Vol. 37:3 p269