A pathway to a fair and lasting solution
Disputes can be draining - mentally, physically and financially. Often, it seems like there is no way through a conflict. Providing the environment for caring, thorough, and creative solutions is what Waterhouse Mediation is about. Our goal is to help people resolve personal or business conflicts and move on with their lives.
Mediation Services
Waterhouse Mediation specialises in helping to settle sensitive disputes, both legal and non-legal
Waterhouse Mediation is fully accredited and provides services in the following areas:
- facilitated settlement conferences
- mediation of legal disputes
- trauma-informed approach to settlement of historical abuse claims
- personal injury and negligence disputes
- disputes between organisations
- inter-personal disputes including employment disputes and family disputes.
Seminars
Waterhouse Mediation specialises in helping to settle sensitive disputes, both legal and non-legal
As General Counsel (including its predecessor role) for the NSW Education Department for 19 years, Michael built an incomparable experience in settling legal, commercial, industrial and policy disputes. This includes:
- Settling a group action by members of the Aboriginal Stolen Generation in NSW, including providing individual apologies and settlement conferences to several hundred individuals
- Leading the Education Department’s response to the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Institutional Child Sexual abuse, implementing the Government’s principles for trauma informed approach to survivors of such abuse
- Working personally with 100s of individuals who have experienced various forms of trauma and abuse in institutional settings
About Michael Waterhouse PSM
Michael Waterhouse has unique depth of experience in the NSW public sector with 26 years experience as a lawyer, policy advisor and senior executive.
As General Counsel (including its predecessor role) for the NSW Education Department for 19 years, Michael built an incomparable experience in settling legal, commercial, industrial and policy disputes. This includes:
- Settling a group action by members of the Aboriginal Stolen Generation in NSW, including providing individual apologies and settlement conferences to several hundred individuals
- Leading the Education Department’s response to the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Institutional Child Sexual abuse, implementing the Government’s principles for trauma informed approach to survivors of such abuse
- Working personally with 100s of individuals who have experienced various forms of trauma and abuse in institutional settings
- Settling complex industrial and award negotiations
- Negotiating legislation through the NSW parliament.
- Negotiating detailed policy agreements and MOUs between NSW government agencies, and non-government organisations, particularly in the human services field.
- Negotiating difficult disputes about existing agreements between government and other parties.
Michael is an accredited mediator under the National Mediator Accreditation System (NMAS). He also has an unrestricted practising certificate with the NSW Law Society
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