You cannot reserve a date utilising the Availability Calendar. It is not linked to the Outlook calendar program.

To book a mediation please follow the steps below.

BOOKING

Mr Douglas is available for a day or half a day (10.00 am – 2.00  pm or 2.00 pm – 6.00 pm).  Early or late hour – or weekend – mediations are available on direct inquiry only. 

After ascertaining availability through this calendar and once confirmed with the other parties involved, please contact his personal assistant, Pauline O’Neill on (07) 3218 0605 to secure a date.  Details of the legal representatives and parties attending the mediation, and the agreed share for payment of mediation fees, should be provided via email to pauline@callinanchambers.com.  Alternatively, contact Mr Douglas  direct on 0417 788713 and via email to douglas@callinanchambers.com. 

Once confirmed you will receive from Mr Douglas  a costs disclosure letter and mediation agreement for signing and return. Such agreement is made with the solicitors for the parties, who are responsible for fee payment.  The fees below apply from 1 July 2025.

TENTATIVE DATES

If you need to make a tentative booking, please email as above.  A tentative date will only be held for one week.  By that time – unless the parties have requested and Mr Douglas agrees to an extension – the tentative date will be removed from the availability calendar and made available to others.  Only one tentative date can be held at any time.

MEDIATION FEES

Mr Douglas’s fee rates for mediations are as follows:

• • • Full day booking – $11,000 (being $10,000 plus 10% GST).
    • Half day booking – $7,040 (being $6,400 plus 10% GST).

Such fees extend to all prior reading (confined to two single sided page volumes, or electronic equivalent), provision of a mediation venue (see below) and post-mediation certification. Excess material provision and mediation time extension – in excess of 30 minutes – will attract an additional charge at a rate of $1,100 an hour (inclusive of GST).

Responsibility for payment of fees – by the respective solicitors for the parties – is several, not joint and several, and is required within 21 days of the date of the mediation.

EXPERT CONCLAVE FACILITATOR FEES

Conclave facilitation fees will be based on Mr Douglas’s above mediation fee rates, but struck by negotiation and agreement, due to the additional fees inexorably incurred by dint of extensive prior reading and subsequent conclave report drafting and finalisation. 

Responsibility for payment of fees – by the solicitors for the parties – is several, not joint and several, and is required within 21 days of the date of report finalisation.   

ADVICE OR PLEADING DRAFTING FEES

Advice or pleading fees – not requiring court appearance – are as follows: 

• • • Per day – $11,550 ($10,500 plus 10% GST). 
    • Per hour – $1,265 ($1,150 plus 10% GST).

The fees in any particular case need be struck by negotiation and agreement as for any like brief, depending on the volume of material briefed and likely time required to complete the task. 

MEDIATION VENUE

The venue for mediations or conclaves (if not conducted by video-link) will be Hemmant’s List Centre, Level 6, Santos Place, Turbot Street, Brisbane or alternatively Callinan Chambers, Level 31, Santos Place.  Both venues have video and telephone conference facilities if required.  There will be no cost to the parties for provision of either venue.   

The parties, however, are at liberty to appoint an alternative venue, but at their own cost. 

PARKING

Public carparks are available nearby the above venues at the following sites:

• • • Secure Parking, 40 Tank Street, Brisbane.
    • King George Square Car Park, 87 Roma Street, Brisbane.