Practice Areas

Education

  • LLB - University of Otago
  • FAMINZ (Med)

Bio

Warren Sowerby is a barrister specialising in Commercial Mediation.

He has by virtue of his extensive mediation practice established himself as a pre-eminent New Zealand legal/commercial mediator.

Consistently selected to facilitate the resolution of significant commercial and other disputes, Warren has completed more than 3,000 mediations, assisting more than 8,000 participants from New Zealand and at times from Australia, United Kingdom, United States, Japan, South Korea, China, Singapore, Europe and Russia.

Warren trained with C.D.R. in Boulder Colorado, is a certified SIMI mediator by endorsement of the Singapore International Mediation Centre, a fellow of Resolution Institute, and in 2016 was admitted as a fellow of the Arbitrators and Mediators Institute of New Zealand by waiver in recognition of his depth of experience in dispute resolution.


Case Highlights

What Others Say

  • "Warren has made an extraordinary and unique contribution to the voluntary dispute resolution field of law. He is, and has been for many years, the standard against whom all other mediators are measured."

Auckland QC.

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Memberships

  • Admitted in 2016 as a Fellow of the Arbitrators and Mediators Institute of New Zealand by waiver in recognition of his depth of experience in dispute resolution.
    Appointed as a SIMI certified mediator by endorsement by the Singapore International Mediation Centre.