Robert Angyal SC

Leading Mediators of NSW 2025

6 St James Hall Senior Counsel, Robert Angyal SC has been recognised in the recent publication of Doyle’s Guide of Leading Mediators – New South Wales, 2025.  Robert has been listed as a leading NSW mediator every year since Doyles started its listing in 2018.

Robert was one of the first NSW barristers to embrace mediation.  Since 1992, he has mediated hundreds if not thousands of commercial, contractual and real property disputes.  In 1987, he was instrumental in the formation of the Law Society of NSW’s Dispute Resolution Committee and a foundation member of that committee.  In 1992 and 1993, Robert helped set up the first two NSW Settlement Weeks.  He also was a foundation member and former Chair of the NSW Bar Association’s Mediation Committee. Robert is an accredited mediator and an approved arbitrator for the NSW Bar Association.

Robert also is a thoughtful commentator on the law and practice of mediation.  Unusually for a practising mediator, Robert has published scholarly articles on aspects of mediation in The Australian Law Journal, the Australian Bar Review, the Australasian Dispute Resolution Law Journal and US and Australian law journals. Copies are available on request.  He has spoken many times at Law Society, Bar Association and CPD seminars on mediation.

Enquiries about Robert’s availability and rates can be made to Robert’s Clerk and Practice Manager, Nora Faulua.

DOYLES GUIDE - LEADING MEDIATORS nsw 2020

Doyle’s Guide has listed Robert Angyal SC as one of New South Wales’ leading mediators. 

Robert Angyal has been mediating since 1991. He has a vast experience in mediating commercial disputes of all types, including partnership disputes, Insurance claims, lessor-lessee disputes, intellectual property claims, banking disputes, trade practices claims and professional negligence actions.

2020 CPD Regional Conference Series

Robert Angyal SC has been invited by the NSW Bar Association to present at the 2020 CPD Regional Conference Series. Robert will be presenting at Ballina on 29 February 2020 and Sydney on 21 March 2020, both presentations will be on mediation Advocacy. Robert has been listed in Who’s Who Legal 2019 Australia as one of 23 exceptional mediators and ranked in Doyles Guide as one of NSW’s 2019 leading mediators.

Please click here for further information about the 2020 CPD Regional Conferences Series.

Doyle's Guide - Leading Mediators NSW 2019

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Doyle’s Guide has listed Robert Angyal SC as one of New South Wales’ leading mediators.

Robert Angyal has been mediating since 1991. He has a vast experience in mediating commercial disputes of all types, including partnership disputes, Insurance claims, lessor-lessee disputes, intellectual property claims, banking disputes, trade practices claims and professional negligence actions.

2018 Legal Language Breakthrough: The Quadruple Negative

2018 has seen a Legal Language Breakthrough: The Quadruple Negative (as used against Luna Park by a certifier addressing whether construction of a new ride required development consent):

“The works cannot be demonstrated as not inconsistent with the development consents as it was unclear whether the development consents authorise the installation of new rides.”

Wow! That's ... nearly incomprehensible.

We lawyers used to think that double negatives were not uncommon, especially in legal prose. And it was not unusual for layers not to stop there, but to wheel out the big gun of the triple negative. Whammo! Take that, whether you understand it or not.

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Robert Angyal SC: "Alternative Dispute Resolution is Dead. Long Live Alternative Dispute Resolution."

On 17 February 2017, Robert Angyal SC gave a presentation to the South Australian Law Society’s annual Forum, entitled Alternative Dispute Resolution is Dead. Long Live Alternative Dispute Resolution. The presentation discussed the profound implications of the fact that mediation has become the dominant means of resolution of civil disputes and suggested that, perhaps, going to Court should now be called “alternative dispute resolution”.

Mr Angyal is preparing a paper based on the presentation for publication.