Having a dispute decided by a Court or Tribunal is often financially a very expensive exercise. In addition to the financial cost, there are often significant emotional and psychological stressors on each party to the dispute, regardless of whether or not the party wins or loses in a Court or Tribunal.

Disputes decided in a Court or Tribunal can also take considerable time to achieve a decision, which may also be subject to appeal processes. Not infrequently, parties to a dispute decided by a Court or Tribunal, whether one wins the case or loses, are not always satisfied with the result.

Dispute, Resolved: Mediation Services is the brain-child of its founder, Mark Sneddon, who was formerly an accomplished barrister of 20 years professional experience.

The business model of Dispute, Resolved: Mediation Services is principally to provide affordable mediation and dispute resolution services directly to businesses, companies and individuals, seeking to resolve disputes and conflicts at an early stage, preferably before legal costs escalate, as legal costs can at times become substantial, unmanageable and not infrequently disproportionate to the actual dispute.

Lawyers are however more than welcome to attend mediation with a client at Dispute, Resolved: Mediation Services and represent their clients, should the client and lawyer so wish. Alternatively, the lawyers may take an advisory role behind the scenes (with the aim to limit legal costs).

Dispute, Resolved: Mediation Services:

• offers face to face, in person, mediation and dispute resolution services in Sydney CBD (or for the parties’ convenience, an alternative location mutually agreed between the partes); and
• offers online mediation and dispute resolution services throughout all States and Territories within Australia and New Zealand.

The role of Dispute, Resolved: Mediation Services is to act as a neutral facilitator to a dispute, assisting the parties to reach a final resolution to dispute, by structured and pragmatic negotiation.

The philosophy of Dispute, Resolved: Mediation Services is that most, if not all, disputes can be resolved by mediation.