ACICA Board Members

Professor Doug Jones
President

Professor Doug Jones AM is an international infrastructure and dispute resolution lawyer. He has practised extensively in the region in international arbitration and is a member of a number of panels of international arbitrators. He is currently Chairman of the Australian Branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and Vice President of the Asia Pacific Council of the LCIA.

For more information, please visit Doug's website: www.dougjones.info

David Fairlie
Director of Arbitration

David Fairlie is a senior partner at Mallesons Stephen Jaques practicing in the area of dispute resolution with extensive experience in arbitration and litigation particularly involving financial institutions. He has been a member of the Professional Standards Council in NSW and WA, and is a past president of the NSW Law Society.

Keith Steele
Senior Vice President

Keith Steele is a senior litigation partner at Freehills, Sydney. He has extensive experience in international commercial litigation including arbitration and is a former Vice Chair of the IBA's International Litigation Committee.

Alex Baykitch
Vice President

Alex is a partner in the Blake Dawson Waldron's Trade & Transport group. He conducts domestic and international arbitrations frequently arising from shipping, oil and gas, commodities and aerospace disputes. These arbitrations include references under the ICC, LMAA, GAFTA and UNICITRAL rules as well as many ad hoc arbitrations.

He has recently conducted international arbitrations arising in the UK, Australia, Korea, Hong Kong and Paris. He also has long experience of conducting litigation in the Supreme Court of New South Wales, Federal Court of Australia and High Court of Australia as well as expert determinations, references, mediations and other alternative forms of dispute resolution.
Recent matters include:

  • advising a major exporter in relation to disputes arising out of the sale and storage of 100,000 bales of wool; a
  • devising a major Japanese trading house in relation to contamination of a number of shipments of grain;
  • advising a number of oil majors on energy related disputes arising from off-shore installations in Nigeria;
  • advising a major Dutch airline in relation to issues arising from damage to one of its aircraft; and
  • advising a Taiwanese shipowner in relation to a technical engineering dispute.

Dr Clyde Croft SC
Treasurer
B Ec, LLM (Monash), PhD (Cambridge), FIAMA, FACICA, Grade 1 Arbitrator and Accredited Mediator Senior Counsel

Dr Clyde Croft SC practises as an arbitrator and mediator (internationally and domestically) and as Senior Counsel, extensively in the commercial law, property, securities, leasing, equity, trusts and building and construction areas, with Chambers in Melbourne (Owen Dixon Chambers) and with Falcon Chambers in London. He is the author and co-author of leading texts in many of these areas. Dr Croft was President of the Institute of Arbitrators and Mediators Australia for three years (1997 – 2000). He is also a Life Fellow, a Grade 1 Arbitrator and an accredited mediator of the Institute. Dr Croft is now a Director and Treasurer of Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (ACICA), having been its foundation Vice – President (and Vice – President, 1996 – 2003). He is also a member of the ACICA and Asia Pacific Regional Arbitration Group (APRAG) panels of international arbitrators and has been representing APRAG at the twice yearly UNCITRAL International Arbitration Working Group Sessions since 2005. Dr Croft is also a mediator accredited by the Victorian Bar and is a Sessional Member, Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal. He is an Adjunct Professor of Law, Deakin University, Melbourne, and was appointed Senior Counsel in 2000.

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Professor Michael Pryles
Immediate Past President

Michael Pryles is a full time international arbitrator and is a consultant to the law firm Clayton Utz in Melbourne. He is the Immediate Past President of the Asia Pacific Regional Arbitration Group, an association of 27 arbitral centres in Asia and Australasia, and is a Court Member of the London Court of International Arbitration. Michael has written and lectured extensively on international commercial arbitration. He has heard over 120 international arbitrations in Asia, Europe, the United States and Australia in cases up to US$ 1.5 billion in value.

Robert Hunt
Director
FCIArb FAMINZ(Arb) Chartered Arbitrator BSc(Eng)(NSW) DipLaws(BAB) LLM(Sydney) MIEAust FIAMA

Robert Hunt is a Past National President of the Institute of Arbitrators & Mediators Australia. After practising as a civil engineer and builder until 1983, he now practises as a barrister, arbitrator and mediator in international and domestic disputes, usually in construction, engineering and commercial matters. As well as being a Grade 1 Arbitrator and an Accredited Mediator with the Institute, he is a Chartered Arbitrator on the London Panel of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, and is a member of numerous other dispute resolution panels in Australia and overseas. He has been particularly active in promoting prompt and cost-effective resolution of technical and commercial disputes, and has spoken at various Conferences and published a number of papers on this topic in Australia and overseas.

Gavan Griffith QC
Director

Solicitor General of Australia 1984 to 97. He has pleaded over 200 appeals in the High Court, Privy Council and International Court to Justice. He is also an international Arbitrator at the World Bank and elsewhere and holds Silk in each state and territory.

Professor Richard Garnett
Director

Richard Garnett is a Professor of Law at the University of Melbourne. He has published books and articles in the fields of international arbitration, electronic commerce and private international law and is a consultant to industry and the legal profession.

Neil Kaplan
Director

Mr Kaplan is a full time international arbitrator practising in London and Hong Kong. He was formerly a Judge of the Supreme Court of Hong Kong. He Chairs the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre and is a past President of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He has co published several books on arbitration and is a frequent speaker at arbitration conferences. He is a Queens Counsel and was awarded the CBE for services in arbitration.

Professor Greg Reinhardt
Director

BA LLB (Hons) (University of Melbourne). Greg was articled in the firm of Ellison, Hewison & Whitehead (which became Minter Ellison), becoming a Partner in 1982. In 1991, he retired from practice and became a full-time academic at The University of Melbourne. From April 1995 to March 1997 he was Academic Secretary of the Victorian Attorney-General’s Law Reform Advisory Council. In February 1997, Greg took up the appointment as Executive Director of The Australian Institute of Judicial Administration. He is the editor of the Journal of Judicial Administration.

Ian Nosworthy
Director

Ian Nosworthy is a barrister and arbitrator (SA and NT) and Immediate Past President of the Institute of Arbitrators and Mediators Australia. He is also Deputy Chairman of the Business Law Section of the Law Council of Australia.

Laurie Glanfield AM
Director

Director General of the NSW Attorney General's Department and Deputy Chairman of the Australian Commercial Disputes Centre.

David Bailey
Director

David Bailey has had a significant career as a solicitor having been a partner from 1971 to 1997 at Freehill Hollingdale and Page (including its predecessor firms, Moule, Hamilton & Derham and Moules). More recently he was Special Counsel and Head of Practice at KPMG Legal in Melbourne from 1997 to 2000. He has also held a variety of public and proprietary corporate and Law Institute and Law Council positions. His extensive experience in commercial law, gained over 30 years, includes banking and finance, insolvency, corporations law and international business transactions. In his more recent role at KPMG Legal he often worked in conjunction with professionals from other disciplines especially tax, corporate advisory and consulting. He has significant experience in the emerging area of goods and services tax.

Ian Govey
Director

Ian Govey is Deputy Secretary, Civil Justice and Legal Services, in the Australian Government Attorney-General's Department. His areas of responsibility cover federal civil dispute resolution, including arbitration, federal courts and tribunals, as well as international trade law and Commonwealth legal services. He is also the Department's representative on the National Alternative Dispute Resolution Advisory Council and the International Legal Services Advisory Council.

Michael Shand QC
Director

Michael Shand QC has practised at the Victorian Bar since 1980 in general commercial law, corporations law, insurance, professional negligence, administrative law and equity and trust matters.

He was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1997.

He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and has been accredited as a Chartered Arbitrator.

He is the President of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (Australia) Limited.

He is also the Senior Vice-Chairman of the Victorian Bar Council, a former director of Barristers’ Chambers Ltd and the Chancellor of the Anglican Diocese of Ballarat.

Professor Gabriël Moens
Director
Ph .B, JD (Hons), LL.M, Ph.D, GCEd, FCIArb

Professor Moens is Dean and Professor of Law, Murdoch University School of Law. Before taking up his present position he was Professor of Law and Head, Graduate School of Law at the University of Notre Dame Australia. He served as Garrick Professor of Law and Director, The Australian Institute of Foreign and Comparative Law, The University of Queensland. In 1999, he won the Australian Award for University Teaching in Law and Legal Studies. He is Editor of International Trade and Business Law Review. He is also a member of the Editorial Board of American Journal of Jurisprudence and other scholarly journals. In 2003, the Prime Minister of Australia awarded him the Australian Centenary Medal for services to education. During the 1995-96 academic year he was a Visiting Professor of Law at J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University, Utah. He served as a Visiting Professor of Law at Loyola University, New Orleans School of Law in 2002-2003. In 1997 and 2000 he successfully coached the T.C. Beirne School of Law team to win the prestigious Willem C Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot Competition in Vienna, Austria. Professor Moens is also a Membre Titulaire, International Academy of Comparative Law, Paris.

Judith Levine
Director

Judith Levine is legal counsel at the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in The Hague, an intergovernmental organization which provides services for the resolution of disputes involving various combinations of states, state entities, intergovernmental organizations, and private parties.  The PCA’s current caseload encompasses territorial, treaty, and human rights disputes between states, as well as commercial and investment disputes.  From 2003 to 2008, Judith was an attorney in the international arbitration group in the New York office of global law firm White & Case LLP where she represented sovereign states and corporations in disputes in Asia, North America, Latin America, the Middle East and Europe, including under the Rules of the ICC, ICSID, the AAA and UNCITRAL. Those matters involved the application of civil and common law and related to diverse industries including oil & gas, power generation, telecommunications, banking, construction and pharmaceuticals.  Judith also advised clients on drafting dispute resolution clauses for international contracts and on matters of public international law, such as state responsibility, treaty interpretation, and land and maritime boundary delimitations. Judith’s prior experience includes working at the International Court of Justice, serving as an adviser to the Commonwealth Attorney-General and as an associate at the High Court of Australia. Judith has lectured at UNSW and for the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. From 2006 to 2008, she was a member of Australia’s delegation to the UNCITRAL Working Group on International Arbitration.

holmesMalcolm Holmes QC
Director

Malcolm Holmes is a senior counsel based in Sydney and is an arbitrator member of chambers at 20 Essex Street in London. He is a chartered arbitrator and the President of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (Australia) Limited. He has acted as an advocate or an arbitrator in numerous arbitrations of most types, both domestic and international, including insurance, general commercial, construction, industrial and maritime arbitration. He is a member of a number of panels of international arbitrators including the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC), the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) and the panel of international arbitrators for the International Centre for Dispute Resolution, the international division of the American Arbitration Association (AAA). He is a fellow of IAMA and an Adjunct Professor of International Commercial Arbitration at the University of New South Wales.

Peter Harris
Director

 

 

Ron Salter
Director

Ron has almost 40 years experience practising as a litigation and dispute resolution lawyer with an emphasis on transport, maritime law and marine insurance.

Ron's maritime experience includes such diverse areas as salvage, pollution, charterparty arbitrations and bill of lading disputes. Ron's experience ranges across other transport regimes from aviation to professional liability disputes.

Ron is accredited as a Grade 1 arbitrator by the Institute of Arbitrators and Mediators Australia and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. Ron's arbitration experience covers a wide range of domestic and international commercial disputes including shipping, aviation, insurance, partnerships, trading, travel, property and construction.

Ron is regularly listed as a leading maritime, litigation and commercial arbitration lawyer in various independent publications such as the Euromoney Guide to the World's Shipping & Maritime Lawyers, Asia Pacific Legal 500, Australian Legal Who's Who and Who's Who Legal: The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers.