Helping you achieve cost-effective and timely outcomes
About Margaret
Nationally accredited mediation AND ARBITRATION services
Margaret Cassidy Mediations
Margaret Cassidy works with clients to identify pathways through conflict by creating best-case, practical options for agreement.
Bringing over 30 years’ experience as a practitioner in the Australian legal system, Margaret provides a supported, impartial platform for parties to build their understanding of the legal process, generate alternatives to costly and time-consuming litigation, and proactively work towards agreement. Through supported mediation and arbitration, Margaret assists clients to achieve cost-effective and timely outcomes with pragmatic and workable solutions.
Benefits of mediation
A nationally accredited mediator, Margaret works with clients to realise the benefits of mediation. Building respectful relationships between parties, Margaret’s approach will:
- Guide discussion by principles of fairness, collaboration and impartiality
- Create an equitable platform for negotiation
- Support parties to understand the options available
- Identify the benefits of resolving disputes without the time, cost and distress which may be caused by formal court proceedings
- Generate practical solutions
- Empower parties to reach agreement.
Benefits of arbitration
- Alternative to costly court processes
- Enables parties to resolve matters in shorter timeframe compared to court process
- Parties are guaranteed a hearing on the day the arbitration is set
- Parties are guaranteed an outcome within 28 days of the arbitration hearing
Our approach
Margaret’s approach to mediation and arbitration combines extensive knowledge of the Australian family law system. With a positive, respectful and collaborative interpersonal style, Margaret is committed to achieving positive outcomes for clients through dispute resolution.
Margaret builds strong relationships and detailed understanding of the facts and circumstances of each matter, setting the scene for parties to identify and explore the issues in dispute, generate understanding of pathways available for resolution, outlining pragmatic alternatives to consider and documenting the details of agreements reached.