CURRICULUM VITAE OF CAMPBELL BRIDGE SC
Professional Address:
7 Selborne Chambers
Level 7
174 Phillip Street
SYDNEY NSW 2000
AUSTRALIA
Level 57
Republic Plaza
9 Raffles Place
SINGAPORE 048619
Contact Details:
Tel: (61) 2 9231 1685
Mobile: + 61 418 408 066
Fax: (61) 2 9221 5386
Email: cb@campbellbridge.com
Website:
www.campbellbridge.com
www.7selborne.com
Date of admission to NSW Bar: 25 July 1977
Date of Appointment as Senior Counsel: October 1998
Other professional appointments:
Supreme Court of New South Wales – Accredited Mediator and
Arbitrator
Accredited mediator under National Mediator Accreditation
System (NMAS) of Australia
FCIArb - Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
ACICA
–
Fellow
of
Australian
Centre
for
International
Commercial Arbitration
BANI - Badan Arbitrasi Nasional Indonesia ((Indonesia National
Board of Arbitration) – Panel Arbitrator
PMN - Indonesian Mediation Centre - International Mediator
Kuala Lumpur Regional Centre for Arbitration - Panel Arbitrator
Brief Summary of Practice as a Barrister:
1977 - 1998
Practice as junior counsel appearing in trials in areas of
commercial litigation, contractual disputes, building and
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construction, insolvency, administrative law, common law trials
(particularly jury trials), medical negligence and public liability
trials, dust diseases litigation, inquests, and occupational health
and safety prosecutions.
March - December 1991
Counsel Assisting the Royal Commission into the Building
Industry held by R V Gyles QC.
2003 - 2004
Chairman of Maurice Byers Chambers.
1998 - 2013
Practice as Senior Counsel involving the above areas with the
addition of greater emphasis on appellate advocacy, major
inquests (most recently the Kovco and Iredale Inquests),
complex product liability, public liability and medical negligence
cases, appearing for barristers in disciplinary matters, sitting as
Commissioner - taking evidence on commission, alternative
dispute resolution work - including arbitrations, references out by
the court and Australian and international mediations held in
Australia, Singapore and Indonesia.
I have served on the NSW Bar Association Committees over many years with particular
emphasis on ADR, arbitration and mediation. I am currently on the ADR Committee of the
NSW Bar.
I am an experienced mediator, having acted as both mediator and for parties in many
disputes in areas of commercial law, building and construction disputes, public liability,
medical negligence and general common law. I had been involved in mediations either as
mediator or as a party for approximately the last 10 years. I have been involved in
arbitrations and references out by courts in Australia over many years in areas of
construction and commercial law, and most recently in disputes between insurers in
professional negligence actions.
I have acted as mediator in both Australia and South East Asia.
Singapore with John West QC and Mark Dempsey SC.
I have an office in
I am the only non-Indonesian who is on both the panels of arbitrators (BANI) and mediators
(PMN) in Indonesia.
I maintain an active practice as an advocate with the bulk of my work in that regard coming
from the New South Wales government in its various instrumentalities, insurers, and public
companies.
I conduct a large number of mediations as the mediator, having been retained as mediator
in several hundred mediations in the past four years alone in Australia, Singapore and
Indonesia. In Australia, they are all mediations in matters pending in the Supreme and
District Courts of New South Wales or courts of other states or territories. They are mostly
in areas of professional negligence, public liability, banking and commercial law, with
medical negligence matters making up the largest single component. The South East
Asian mediations are in areas of commercial law, professional indemnity and mining law.
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Over 50% of my practice at the Bar is as a mediator. I am an accredited mediator under
National Mediator Accreditation System (NMAS) which commenced operation on 1 January
2008. I am accredited by the Supreme and District Courts of New South Wales as a
mediator of matters being litigated in those Courts. I have also acted as a mediator on
referral from courts (including appellate courts) in other states and territories.
I have been a member of the Australia Indonesia Business Council Committee advising on
the Economic Partnership Agreement where I had specific responsibility for advising on the
incorporation of ADR (with mediation the preferred option) in current CEPA
(Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement) between the Australian and Indonesian
governments.
I speak at numerous international conferences on various topics, in particular mediation of
commercial and professional liability disputes in Australia and Asia including:
May 2009 – Inter-Pacific Bar Association conference in Manila, Philippines.
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June 2009 - Asian Mediation Association conference in Singapore.
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September 2009 - at 'Kɒŋgrɛs 2009, LEADR's 10th International ADR conference in
Melbourne.
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November 2009 - Indonesia Australia Business Council Conference in Yogyakarta,
Indonesia.
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28 January 2010 - Indonesian Corporate Counsel Association Conference in
Jakarta, Indonesia.
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25 February 2011 - Asian Mediation Association conference in Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia.
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30 March 2011 - OZMINE (Australian Mining Industry) conference conducted by
Austrade in Jakarta, Indonesia.
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September 2011 - at 'Kɒŋgrɛs 2011, LEADR's 11th International ADR conference in
Brisbane.
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18 April 2012 - OZMINE (Australian Mining Industry) conference conducted by
Austrade in Jakarta, Indonesia.
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4 October 2012 – “The 5C’s of ADR” conference held in the Supreme Court in
Singapore where I was a plenary session speaker on developments in mediation in
Australia.
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1 November 2012 - Conference, Seminar and All-Day Workshop on dispute
resolution clauses, arbitration and mediation conducted by BANI (Indonesia National
Board of Arbitration) and Rodyk & Davidson where I presented a paper on
comparisons of arbitration and mediation and hybrid processes.
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
30 November 2012 - Legal Era Conclave Singapore 2012 Session Alternate Dispute
Resolution - What The Region Holds?
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12 April 2013 - Kuala Lumpur Regional Centre for Arbitration (KLRCA) – “Mediation
– The Best Way to Resolve Medical Negligence and other Professional Indemnity
Actions”
Over the past few years I have frequently given papers on numerous topics including in
particular alternative dispute resolution and mediation, negotiation and related ethical
issues to conferences of the NSW Bar, the College of Law (NSW), NSW Bar Readers’
course, law firms in Sydney, Singapore and Kuala Lumpur, as well as for various
commercial conference organisers.
In October 2009 I was a lecturer in the Dispute Resolution in Asia LLM course conducted
by Sydney University Law Faculty. I was a guest lecturer in November 2010, June 2011,
October 2011, January and July 2012 and May 2013 at the Indonesian Mediation Centre in
Jakarta on issues of conflict resolution analysis, negotiation, Indonesian and western crosscultural issues, and the role of lawyers in alternative dispute resolution and mediation. In
June 2012 I was a guest lecturer at the Melbourne University Law Masters Program on
topics of mediation of the medical negligence disputes, and ethical and effective
negotiations.
My particular interests include Asia and Asian culture. I can speak some conversational
Bahasa Indonesian. I was appointed by Austrade to give a talk at Ozmine 2012 to over 100
exhibitors at the conference about Indonesian communication and culture.
In July 2012 I spoke on the same issues (in the context of doing business in Indonesia) at
an AsiaLink (University of Melbourne) conference. The conference was entitled “State of
the Nation: Indonesia” where I was on a panel with the former ASEAN Trade Commissioner
in Jakarta and the Chairman, International Chamber of Commerce – Indonesia National
Committee (ICC).
I travel extensively from Central Asia to Indonesia as a writer and photographer for
numerous cultural magazines and publications such as Asian Geographic (Singapore), and
various airline and travel magazines. In that life, I have had a large number of photographs
and articles published about numerous places in Asia including Indonesia, India, Bhutan,
Mongolia and the Silk Road in Central Asia, including cultural articles with diverse topics
ranging from a non-Muslim perspective of Ramadan to Islamic life in Sydney and the coffee
culture of Sydney. I have staged photographic exhibitions in Jakarta and Sydney on topics
ranging from Indonesian people and culture to Islamic life in Sydney.
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