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Paul Biddington
JP, GDip Bus Studs., AAMINZ, AREINZ

Paul Biddington is an experienced and qualified provider of a full range of dispute resolution services.

Paul can provide service as required to any or all of:

  • Advocacy – assisting and helping a party present their side in a dispute or conflict
  • Negotiation – acting as a neutral third party in a negotiation or assisting a party to negotiate a better solution
  • Mediation – act as an impartial third party to facilitate negotiations using a process that is non-binding and voluntary to assist them to resolve the dispute
  • Conciliation – providing a process which is impartial and independent, however could still be requested by the parties to make either a binding or non-binding suggestion to settle the dispute
  • Adjudication – a judicial process relevant to the building industry under the provisions of the Construction Contracts Act 2002
  • Arbitration – a process for settlement of disputes where an independent and impartial arbitrator makes a decision settling the dispute after considering the representations of both parties

Paul can apply these services in a range of areas, such as:

Commercial Partnerships - Building Construction - Building & Property

Real Estate Transactions – Contracts and Leases

Community Issues

 

 

 

 
 

Qualifications & Experience

Paul has worked in a number of fields but since 1979 he has been involved in the Real Estate Industry.

Paul has a Graduate Diploma in Business Studies (Dispute Resolution) from Massey University. He has been an Associate of the Arbitrators and Mediators Institute since 2001 and an Associate of the Real Estate Institute since 1983.

Paul is currently a Panel member of the Real Estate Agents Authority and sits as a member of a Complaints Assessment Committee that hears complaints from consumers against real estate licencees. He is also on the Real Estate Institutes panel of Dispute Resolution practitioners that hears complaints between members of the Institute.

Paul's management background includes ownership of his own dispute resolution company and past ownership of his own real estate company. Currently he is involved in sales, staff training, leadership development and mentoring.

Paul's community involvement is that he is a Rotarian and past President of the Rotary Club of Belfast. He has held a number of directorships and has also served the Rotary district as an Assistant District Governor. He currently sits on a number of community Trusts, serves the community as a Justice of the Peace and is a member of the Canterbury Justices of the Peace Association of NZ.

Paul’s Terms of Engagement are available by downloading PDF files – Mediation, Arbitration

Contact Paul

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