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Albert Monichino SC

Barrister, Arbitrator & Mediator BEc; LLB (Hons); LLM(Cambridge); Grad Dip Intell Prop Law; FCIArb; FACICA; FIAMA

Albert practises as a barrister, arbitrator and mediator.  He has over 20 years experience.  He is an IAMA Grade 1 Arbitrator and is accredited by the Victorian Bar as an advanced Mediator. He was appointed to Senior Counsel in 2010.

He has a general commercial litigation practice in the Supreme and Federal Courts in Australia, and also in commercial arbitrations (domestic and international). 

He has substantial experience in  construction, engineering and transport logistic disputes, including acting as senior junior counsel for Fluor in the Fluor v Anaconda arbitration, 2001 - 2003, involving claims exceeding $A1 billion..

He holds the degrees of BEc, LLB (Hons) from Monash University, an LLM from the University of Cambridge and a Grad Dip Intell Prop Law from the University of Melbourne. 

He is a fellow of the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (ACICA), the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb), and the Institute of Arbitrators and Mediators Australia (IAMA).  

He is the Vice President (Convenor) of the Commercial Bar Association of the Victorian Bar  (COMMBAR) and Co-Chair of its Arbitration and ADR Section.

 

Academic/Publications

Albert has lectured and/or tutored in the CIArb Diploma Course in International Commercial Arbitration for the past four years.  He has published and presented widely in the areas of commercial law, arbitration and ADR, including:

  • "Stop Clock Hearing Procedures in Arbitration" published in the Asian Dispute Review Journal(July 2009)
  • "The Adequacy of Arbitral reasons: an Australian perspective", published in the Asian Dispute Review Journal(October 2010)
  • "Arbitration reform in Australia: striving for international best practice", published in the Arbitrator & Mediator Journal(October 2010
  • "International Arbitration in Australia - 2010/2011 in Review", Australasian Dispute Resolution Journal (2011), Vol 22, pp 215 - 227.
  •  "Australia: Apex court speaks out on adequacy of arbitral reasons", Global Arbitration Review Journal (online, 12 January 2012).
  • "International Arbitration in Australia: The need to centralise judicial power" (2012) 86 Australian Law Journal pp 118 - 133.

    • Other

    He participated in drafting IAMA's Fast-Track Arbitration Rules and Practice Note (published in June 2007).