Ciarb maintains Presidential panels of senior and experienced arbitrators, accredited mediators and accredited construction adjudicators.
The following list of members are accredited Fellows.
For further information, please contact Gianna Totaro, CEO, Ciarb Australia.
The Hon Murray Gleeson AC graduated in Arts and Law from Sydney University and was admitted to the New South Wales Bar in 1963. He was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1974.
He was a part-time Lecturer in Company Law at Sydney University from 1965 to 1974. He was a Member of the Council of the New South Wales Bar Association from 1979 to 1985. He was elected as Honorary Master of the Bench, Middle Temple, in 1989.
He held the offices of Chief Justice of New South Wales from 1988 until 1998, Lieutenant-Governor of New South Wales from 1989 until 1998 and Chief Justice of Australia from 1998 to 2008. In 2009 he was appointed a Non-Permanent Judge of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal.
He was made an Officer of the Order of Australia in 1986 for services to law and a Companion of the Order of Australia in 1992 for services to law and the Crown.
Mr Gleeson is the Patron of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (Australia) Limited and a Companion of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He holds degrees of Honorary Doctor of Laws from the University of Sydney, Honorary Doctor of Griffith University, and Honorary Doctor of the Australian Catholic University.
John Wakefield is the Managing Partner of Holman Webb Lawyers and practices generally in dispute resolution. He has been the member for Australasia of the CIArb Board of Trustees since 2017.
John is a Fellow and Past President of the Australian Branch of CIArb and a Fellow of ACICA. He is also Chair of the Australian Disputes Centre. ADC provides a focus for alternative dispute resolution in Australia with hearing and function rooms. ADC also provides nationally accredited mediation training. It is the secretariat for the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration and the registered office of Australian branch of the CIArb. John is also a nationally accredited mediator (NMAS) and teaches and speaks regularly on current issues in alternative dispute resolution.
From 2009 – 2014 John was a judicial member (part time) of the Administrative Decisions Tribunal of NSW. Since 2014 he has been a senior member (part time) of the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal sitting in the Administrative and Equal Opportunity and Occupational Divisions and on the Appeal Panel.
John has been recognised since 2018 in the Australian Edition of Best Lawyers in alternative dispute resolution and received the award for Australian Arbitrator of the Year in the 2018 Australasian Law Awards.
Dr Andrew Hanak QC is a member of the Victorian Bar practising in commercial law.
Andrew has over 20 years experience in providing advice and appearing in matters at both trial and appellate level in Superior Courts throughout Australia. He is a qualified arbitrator and practises regularly in both international and domestic commercial arbitration disputes. He has appeared as Counsel in several Royal Commissions, inquiries and statutory investigations.
Andrew was appointed Queen’s Counsel for the State of Victoria in 2018. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, a Fellow of the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration, a member of the CIArb London approved faculty list, a nationally accredited mediator and editor of the Australian Property Law Journal.
He has been recognised over numerous years by Best Lawyers Australia and by Doyle’s Guide.
Dr Andrew Hanak QC practises in all Australian jurisdictions.
Education
PhD (Monash) BA, LLB (Hons) (Monash)
CIArb Diploma in International Commercial Arbitration (Hong Kong)
Vicky Priskich is the Vice President and a Fellow of CIArb. She practices as a barrister and arbitrator.
Vicky is experienced in international commercial arbitrations conducted under the SIAC, UNCITRAL and ICC Rules and in arbitral award enforcement proceedings in Australia.
Vicky acts as counsel and arbitrator across a broad range of complex commercial disputes including, oil and gas cost and revenue farm-in, gas supply, shareholder, distributorship and major construction agreements. She has a detailed knowledge of trusts law and has acted as counsel in commercial and family trust disputes and has appeared in banking and finance disputes in the Supreme and Federal Courts.
Vicky is co-author of Lender Liability (Thomson Reuters, 2016) with Professor James O’Donovan. She received her doctorate in law from the University of Melbourne on the subject of liability and insolvency of corporate groups.
Caroline served as CIArb Australia President from 2017 to 2020. She has over 30 years’ experience as a barrister, arbitrator and mediator. She has practised in Australia, New York and London. She was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 2008.
Caroline practises in administrative, commercial and construction matters. She is an experienced advocate, mediator and arbitrator having been retained in complex matters for governments, government agencies and private sector clients throughout her career at the Bar. She is an experienced appellate advocate and has frequently appeared in the High Court of Australia. She is a nationally accredited mediator and a Chartered Arbitrator and Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.
Professional Experience
Caroline has appeared as counsel and arbitrator in ad hoc arbitrations and arbitrations conducted under the Rules of the ICC, LCIA, SIAC , UNCITRAL and KLRCA Rules. She has been appointed presiding arbitrator and/or sole arbitrator in international disputes involving multi-million dollar claims. Caroline is a a member of the Panel of Arbitrators of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC); the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO); the Russian Arbitration Centre (RAC), the Singapore International Commercial Court (SICC); the Asian International Arbitration Centre (AIAC), the Pacific International Arbitration Centre (PIAC); the Beijing Arbitration Commission (BAC); the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC), the International Centre for Dispute Resolution® (ICDR®), the international division of the American Arbitration Association; and the Australian Energy Regulator (AER). She is the President of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (Aust) Pty Ltd and is the Immediate Past Chair of the Education Committee. She is on the CIArb London Approved Faculty List and has taught in the Award Writing Course, the Accelerated Route to Fellowship Course and Diploma Course in Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong and Oxford.
Education Qualifications
Professional Qualifications
Jurisdictions Admitted To Practice
Current Boards and Committees
2016
Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards Legislation.
Andrew Di Pasquale practises in commercial law, public law and international commercial arbitration.
Prior to joining the bar, Andrew was solicitor with varied commercial experience including working as a Senior Legal Consultant for DLA Piper – Dubai, as a solicitor in the construction groups of King & Wood Mallesons (then Mallesons Stephen Jaques) and Clayton Utz, and as in-house counsel for a mining company, Mitsubishi Development. Andrew was also the legal assistant to international arbitrator Neil Kaplan CBE, QC, SBS.
During his time as a solicitor, Andrew worked on large scale infrastructure projects, in both transactional and litigious capacities. Andrew also spent time on secondment to Telstra, Meraas Development (Dubai) and the Tourism Development Infrastructure Corporation (Abu Dhabi).
Michael is a Barrister at Law, Victoria and a Senior Fellow, Melbourne Law School.
Educational and professional qualifications:
Bachelor of Arts (Hons), University of Melbourne (1988)
Bachelor of Laws (Hons), University of Melbourne (1990)
Barrister and Solicitor, High Court of Australia (1991)
Barrister and Solicitor, Supreme Court of Victoria (1991)
Master of Laws, University of Melbourne (1995)
Member of the Victorian Bar (1997)
Barrister and Solicitor, Supreme Court of Western Australia (1997)
Member, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (2001)
Senior Counsel – Victoria (2017)
Queens Counsel – Victoria (2018)
Diploma in International Arbitration (2018)
Fellow Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (2019)
Victorian Bar Pro Bono Trophy (2019)
Relevant experience:
2006 – Current: Author, McPherson’s Law of Company Liquidation
2004 – Current: Joint Editor, Australian Bankruptcy Cases (New Series)
1999 – Current: External Lecturer in Insolvency Law, Melbourne Law School (subject co-ordinator since 2005, Senior Fellow since 2016)
1998 – Current: Co-author, Australian Bankruptcy Law and Practice
1997 – Current: Barrister, Victorian Bar, practising in Commercial Law including Insolvency Law (Silk from 2017)
1991 – 1997: Solicitor and Senior Associate, Blake Dawson Waldron (now Ashurst)
Current Board Memberships:
2017 – Current: Member, Insolvency Practitioner Registration and Disciplinary Committees
2015 – Present: Member, Anglican Church Professional Standards Review Board (Victoria)
2005 – Present: Member, Electoral Tribunals of University of Melbourne Student Union and (since 2014) Graduate Students’ Association (nominee of Dean of Law School)
2011 – Present: Trustee, St Peters’ Eastern Hill Charitable Foundation
2004 Present: Member, Law Council of Australia, Insolvency and Reconstruction Committee
Former Board Memberships:
2014- 2019: Secretary, Melbourne Anglican Trusts Corporation
2014 – 2015: President, Medico Legal Society of Victoria
2012 – 2014: Vice President (Legal), Medico Legal Society of Victoria
2011 – 2012: Member, Victorian Bar Council
2006 – 2015: Member, Committee, Medico Legal Society of Victoria
1999 – 2005: Member, Victorian Bar Council
Jeremy is a partner in the Disputes and Investigations team at Allens, based in Perth. He specialises in complex commercial disputes and has extensive experience in commercial litigation, arbitration, expert determination and mediation.
Much of Jeremy’s experience has concerned disputes in the energy and resources sector. He has represented clients in proceedings relating joint venture disputes, major project developments, asset acquisition, commodity pricing and engineering issues. Jeremy is dual qualified. In addition to his legal qualifications Jeremy has an honours degree in Engineering from the University of Western Australia.
A significant part of Jeremy’s practice involves assisting clients with high value and strategic arbitrations, both domestic and international. He is co-head of the national Arbitration Practice Group at Allens. He regularly acts in arbitrations concerning domestic and regional matters. He is active in the arbitration community and frequently presents on arbitration issues in the region.
Some of Jeremy’s relevant experience includes:
Qualifications
Nick is a barrister, arbitrator and adjudicator with over 15 years’ experience in disputes concerning the engineering, construction, oil & gas, mining, defence and general commercial sectors. Named in the Doyle’s Guide since 2014 as ‘leading junior counsel’ in construction and commercial litigation & dispute resolution, he specialises in the law and practice of ADR. He has appeared as counsel in large and complex commercial litigation and arbitrations, both domestic and international.
Nick is an accredited mediator, arbitrator and adjudicator (South Australia, Western Australia, Northern Territory and Malaysia).
Professional Qualifications
B.Com – University of Adelaide
LLB – Queensland University of Technology
Practitioner’s Certificate in Mediation and Conciliation – Resolution Institute
Professional Certificate in Arbitration – University of Adelaide
Grad. Dip. in Military Law – Australian National University
Diploma in International Commercial Arbitration – The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
RICS Adjudication Course (Western Australia) – RICS Dispute Resolution Service
Certificate in Maritime Disputes and Arbitration – Lloyd’s Maritime Academy
Certificate in Adjudication – AIAC, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Independent Arbitrator, Mediator, International Trade and Investment Lawyer, Academic, Melbourne
Erika Williams is a leading international arbitration practitioner with over 10 years’ experience acting in some of Australia’s largest disputes resolved through arbitration. Erika is experienced in commercial, construction and investment arbitration and has acted in arbitrations under various arbitral institutions including ACICA, LCIA, ICC, SIAC, CIETAC and JCAA.
Erika is on the arbitrator panels of leading arbitral institutions including the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration, the Resolution Institute and the Queensland Law Society and sits as arbitrator and tribunal secretary.
Erika also provides consultancy services to in-house counsel and firms involved in arbitration and cross-border litigation.
Shane has practised at the Queensland Bar since January 2005. He has a predominantly commercial practice, with experience in a wide variety of matters including building and construction, contractual disputes, corporations law, insolvency, intellectual property, professional indemnity claims, real property, restraint of trade, securities, tax litigation, and trade practices. He has also acted in succession (including family provision) and tort claims, and has specialist experience and expertise in public and private international law, including cross-border disputes and international arbitration.
Shane is a member of Level Twenty Seven Chambers in Brisbane, and is visiting counsel at 12 Wentworth Selborne Chambers in Sydney.
Before coming to the Bar, Shane spent three years as a Lecturer at New College, Oxford University (teaching contract and international law), and practised with leading firms in Brisbane and London.
Shane is also President of the Queensland Chapter of the International Law Association, and is a member of the management committee of the ILA’s Australian Branch.