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NATIVE TITLE ACT 1993 - SECT 94E Parties at conferences

NATIVE TITLE ACT 1993 - SECT 94E

Parties at conferences

Requiring parties to attend conferences

  (1)   The person conducting the mediation may direct a party to attend at a conference.

Limiting parties at conferences

  (2)   The person conducting the mediation may direct that only one or some of the parties may attend, and be represented, at a conference.

Excluding parties from conferences

  (3)   If the person conducting the mediation considers that:

  (a)   a party, or a party's representative, at a conference is disrupting or hindering the conference; or

  (b)   excluding a party, or a party's representative, from a conference would help to resolve matters;

the person may direct that the party or representative not attend at that conference or at other conferences.

Parties may be represented

  (4)   A party may be represented by a barrister, a solicitor or another person.

Mediation in good faith

  (5)   Each party, and each person representing a party, must act in good faith in relation to the conduct of the mediation.