workING TOGETHER
Ben Battcock is well-placed to assist parties to reach mutually beneficial agreements.
He has over 30 years’ experience in the law in Australia and UK. He was at the Bar in London for 14 years and has spent almost 20 years in Australia teaching law students the fundamental skills of clear communication, negotiation and listening.
EMPOWERING YOU
As the costs of legal proceedings continue to soar and the inevitable delays increase, the benefits of mediation become increasingly obvious.
Ben Battcock helps parties to identify what is really in issue and more importantly what ‘matters’ to each side and facilitate an outcome which satisfies both sides.
Ben guides parties towards solutions that are not only quicker and cheaper but better for the parties as they retain control over the process. The mediation process empowers the parties, in stark contrast to the court controlled litigation process which imposes decisions upon all parties, regardless of the views of the parties.
DISPUTE AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION
For over 14 years at the Bar in London, Ben Battcock dealt with a wide variety of clients and professionals from the Judges in the Privy Council through expert witnesses in every profession to lay clients in difficult and emotional circumstances. He appreciates the different psychological and emotional pressures that operate on everyone involved in disputes and conflicts and can assist them to cut through those pressures to the heart of the matter.
EXPERIENCE
Ben Battcock is a Mediator practising in Canberra and Sydney with over 30 years’ experience in the law in Australia and the UK.
Having studied Classics and Law at Cambridge University and the Inns of Court School of Law in London, Ben Battcock was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 1986 by the Middle Temple. He practised in London at the Chambers of Roger Henderson QC (now Henderson chambers) for 14 years.
Ben’s practice was predominantly in product liability, professional negligence, employment and personal injury. He represented clients at all levels of courts from Magistrates’ Courts to the High Court and the Court of Appeal. He was part of a team of 4 barristers who represented Imperial Tobacco in the ‘tobacco litigation’ in 1999. He regularly represented British Petroleum and the British Railways Board in employment cases at the Employment Tribunal and Employment Appeal Tribunal.
Ben appeared, pro bono, at the Privy Council in a Jamaican ‘death-row’ appeal.
Following a move to Australia, Ben Battcock has worked as a Lecturer at the Australian National University in Canberra. He works in both the GDLP and MLP programs and also the Military Law Program.
He is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Authority. He is the National Convener for Off Campus Courses and for the Becoming a Practitioner Course and Criminal Practice. He has been the Convener for Civil Practice and taught in the Commercial Practice and Professional Practice Courses. He is also the Convener for the Advocacy Course in the Masters of Legal Practice and the Military Law Program run by the ANU and Adelaide University for the ADF. In those roles he has focused on teaching students to communicate effectively with clients. The first and most fundamental step in communication is to listen to clients.
“HE APPRECIATES THE DIFFERENT PSYCHOLOGICAL AND EMOTIONAL PRESSURES THAT OPERATE ON EVERYONE INVOLVED IN DISPUTES AND CONFLICTS AND CAN ASSIST THEM TO CUT THROUGH THOSE PRESSURES TO THE HEART OF THE MATTER.”
HOW BEN CAN HELP YOU
Ben can help with resolving disputes in a timely and satisfactory way. He can enable parties to reach innovative solutions to difficult situations. With his extensive experience in the law both in Australia and the UK and his first-hand experience of the difficulties, costs and unexpected twists and turns of litigation he is able to guide parties to quicker, cheaper and more satisfactory outcomes.
He completed formal mediation training with the Australian Dispute Centre in 2009 and 2018.
He is a Nationally Accredited Mediator.
INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS TO DIFFICULT SITUATIONS
