Speaker Session:
A session of two halves | Leaning in: mediator and child specialist interactions
About Bill Rainey
Barrister and Senior Resolution Practitioner
Bill is a barrister who focuses on mediation and adjudication. He handles a wide range of disputes across New Zealand, including commercial, workplace, property, natural hazards, public land acquisition, environmental, education, personal, community, and health care issues. He’s also an accredited team development practitioner and has worked with senior leaders and teams in NZ, the UK, and Denmark on complex business transformations and changes.
Before diving into ADR in 1999, Bill spent 20 years in general legal practice, including roles as a senior counsel for child and Hague Convention lawyer in the family court.
Bill is a member of the NZLS and on the mediation panel of AMINZ. He’s an accredited FDR provider and has specialist training in education mediation from the NZLS. He’s also been a mediator for the Weathertight Homes Tribunal, vice-chair and board member of LEADR NZ (now Resolution Institute), and an Independent Hearings Commissioner (RMA). Bill often speaks at industry conferences on dispute resolution and co-authored the ADR section of the DSL Environmental Law Handbook.
Member (NZLS), Mediator Panel (AMINZ), FDR Panel, Land Acquisition Resolution Service Panel (LARS), Natural Hazards Cover Dispute Resolution Panel, Leadership and Team development accreditation (TMS)
Leaning in: mediator and child specialist interactions
With our new Child Inclusive Mediation process well and truly entrenched within the FDR framework, it is imperative that mediators and child specialists continue to explore how they can best combine their respective professional expertise to support parents and their tamariki. This interactive session with Suzanne Alliston and Bill Rainey will look at the importance and appropriateness of information sharing and how by working together, we can facilitate better outcomes for the whanau we support.