Thursday, 5 March 2026
Confusion Regarding Forums and Construction Disputes: Choosing the Best Forum
- Gain a comparison of dispute resolution options in Victoria:
- Statutory and Tribunal Avenues - VCAT, Domestic Building Dispute Resolution Victoria (DBDRV - now part of the BPC)
- State courts: Magistrates, County, Supreme
- Private avenues: adjudication under the Security of Payment Act (Vic), arbitration, Mediation/Conciliation
- Analyse the jurisdictional overlaps and limitations, such as monetary thresholds and subject-matter restrictions
- Examine recent cases illustrating the consequences of forum choice in construction disputes
- Practical criteria for selecting the most effective forum, including enforceability of decisions, appeal rights and procedural timelines
Presented by Sam Angelatos, Partner, Warlows Legal
Chair
Albert Monichino KC, Arbitrator & Mediator, List A Barristers
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD unit in Substantive Law
This program is based on VIC legislation
* This interactive online recording includes questions and quizzes requiring critical thinking about the topics, so you have no annual limits to the number of points/hours you can claim with this format of learning. Please verify with your CPD rules
Presenters
Albert Monichino KC, Arbitrator & Mediator, List A Barristers
Albert Monichino KC practices as a barrister, arbitrator and mediator. Appointed senior counsel in 2010 he has over 30 years of experience in commercial dispute resolution. He is a past President of the Australian branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (‘CIArb’), a Chartered Arbitrator, and is accredited as an advanced mediator. He has consistently been listed by Doyle’s Guide between 2017 and 2023 as one of Australia’s leading arbitration barristers. Albert has acted as arbitrator or as counsel under various arbitration rules in wide-ranging commercial disputes throughout the Asia-Pacific region, including construction, engineering and infrastructure disputes. He has lectured and/or tutored in the CIArb Diploma Course in International Commercial Arbitration since its inception in 2016. In 2006 he was the Co-Course Director of the inaugural CIArb Asia-Pacific Diploma Course held in Singapore. Albert is the lead lecturer of the subject “Arbitration of International Commercial Disputes” offered by Monash University in June 2023 in its postgraduate law program. Albert also has a broad commercial litigation practice in the superior courts in Australia, including in the area of building and construction. He recently appeared for Amcor in a 45 day Supreme Court trial involving the remediation for asbestos contamination of the former Amcor paper mill site in Alphington, which Amcor sold to the developer, Glenville (judgment in favour of Amcor: [2023] VSC 637).
Sam Angelatos, Partner, Warlows Legal
Sam Angelatos is a highly accomplished solicitor and commercial adviser with over 30 years of distinguished experience spanning commercial litigation, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, property development, family law, immigration and complex dispute resolution. Admitted to practice in both the Supreme Court of Victoria and the High Court of Australia, Sam holds a Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Economics from Monash University, as well as an MBA from the University of Melbourne’s Business School. Throughout his career, Sam has held prominent positions including Managing Partner, Principal, Special Counsel, Group General Counsel, and Business Consultant, as well as senior leadership and Director roles, in both private practice and in-house roles. He currently manages high-value commercial and property matters and regularly appears in the Supreme Court, County Court and Federal jurisdictions.
