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Speech by Chairman of HKMAAL, Mr John Budge, SBS, MBE, JP at the HKMAAL 1st Anniversary Celebration

11 October 2013


The Secretary for Justice, The Hon Mr Rimsky Yuen SC, The Hon Mr Justice Johnson Lam VP, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, thank you for coming to this evening’s event, celebrating the 1st Anniversary of HKMAAL.

As you are all aware, HKMAAL has been set up to create the premier accreditation body for mediators in Hong Kong discharging both accreditation and disciplinary functions. Our long term goal is to eventually form a single accreditation system in Hong Kong.  I am delighted to share with you the good progress we have made to date. 

On membership, we now have 8 corporate members, with the Hong Kong Institute of Arbitrators, CEDR Asia Pacific, the Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors and the Hong Kong Institute of Architects joining us in the past few months. I would like to take this opportunity to welcome them all. On this positive note, we welcome other accreditation bodies in Hong Kong to apply to join HKMAAL as corporate members. I am grateful to Mr Thomas So who chairs the Working Party on Membership to assist us in considering membership applications.

I am also pleased to inform you that HKMAAL is now one of the largest accreditation bodies in Hong Kong. We now have 1108 mediators on our Panels of Mediators, including 989 General Mediators, 92 Family Mediators and 27 Family Mediation Supervisors.

In order to standardize the accreditation procedure, the Working Group on Accreditation Standards chaired by Mrs Robyn Hooworth has endeavoured to come up with common standards of accreditation. We have conducted 2 Forums to seek stakeholders’ view on the accreditation standards for family mediators and general mediators. The forums were well attended by over 70 stakeholders and we have incorporated their comments to form the common standards. Robyn and her Working Group have completed this arduous task in a matter of a few months and starting from July, we have run 3 Stage 2 Assessments based on the new standards. I wish to take this opportunity to thank Robyn and her hardworking group for their good work.

I am particularly grateful to my fellow Council Members, Mr Francis Law from the Hong Kong Mediation Centre, Mrs Cecilia Wong from the Law Society of Hong Kong, Mr Kumar Ramanathan SC from the Hong Kong Bar Association, The Hon Mr Justice Barnabas Fung and Ms Gilly Wong from the Consumer Council.  I am also grateful to the members of the HKMAAL Mediation Accreditation Committee for their guidance.  I would also like to thank the Department of Justice, in particular Mr. Rimsky Yuen, Simon Lee and the Mediation Team. The Judiciary have also been very supportive and in particular Mr. Justice Johnson Lam and Ms. April Lam for their support. Finally I would like to thank the HKIAC Secretariat for their assistance during the last year.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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