Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

COMPETITION AND CONSUMER ACT 2010 - SECT 57EE

                   For the purposes of this Division, a party is taken to have tried to resolve a dispute if the party approaches the resolution of the dispute in a reconciliatory manner, including by doing any of the following:

                     (a)  attending and participating in meetings at reasonable times;

                     (b)  responding to communications to the party within a reasonable time;

                     (c)  if the party has agreed to use a technical expert in resolving the dispute--considering the opinions of the technical expert;

                     (d)  if a mediation process is being used to try to resolve the dispute--both:

                              (i)  making the party's intention clear, at the beginning of the process, as to what the party is trying to achieve through the process; and

                             (ii)  observing any obligations relating to confidentiality that apply during or after the process.