Live Blogging from the AMINZ Conference

Today in Wellington at Te Papa, our national museum, we are enjoying the most stimulating gathering of mediators at the New Zealand Arbitrators' and Mediators' Institute Conference '09. Program here.

North Carolina mediator, attorney and author Andy Little is here as guest speaker and workshop presenter. For anyone interested in negotiating or mediating money claims, Andy is a must see and a must read is his Making Money Talk. Andy spoke on The Language of Numbers: Mediating and Negotiating Claims for Money

We have heard from NZ's great and good; His Excellency the Governor-General of New Zealand, The Hon Sir Anand Satyanand and Attorney General, Hon Christopher Finlayson and Michael Kirby, until recently, one of the seven Justices of Australia's highest constitutional and appellate court, the High Court of Australia.

More later.