Kate Keddell - Fair Way

Kate Keddell

LLB, AMINZ

Resolution Practitioner
  • Building and construction,
    Community and neighbours,
    Education,
    Organisations and workplaces,
    Retirement
  • Nationwide | Aotearoa,
    Otago | Ōtākou

Kate Keddell  is an experienced facilitator, mediator and investigator, primarily working in the South Island. She practiced as a commercial lawyer for nearly two decades and remains an enrolled barrister and solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand.

Kate enjoys practicing collaborative and consensus-based dispute resolution. She is known for her outgoing nature and pragmatic approach to problem solving.  Kate is often engaged by businesses when relationship issues emerge within the workplace, boardroom or with wider stakeholders. She has a particular interest in helping people in business to prevent conflict from escalating beyond repair, ending in the courtroom. She also has expertise in the not for profit, education and seafood sectors.

Kate's professional memberships include the Arbitrators and Mediators Institute of New Zealand, Resolution Instituted, Association of Workplace Investigators, Dunedin Community Mediation, Institute of Directors, and Otago Women Lawyers Society.