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 Ron Vagg - Mediator - Counsellor - Family Lawyer
As a practising lawyer specialising in Family Law since 1970 Ron saw family disputes turn into separations and divorces, over decades. With children of those separating families hurt and damaged along with their parents.
That hurt and damage badly affected other members of the family as well, with grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins and close family friends all suffering loss as part of their wider family disintegrated.
Believing that many of these family endings arose from misunderstandings, unresolved areas of conflict, poor communication, stresses that had their endings only in separations and divorce, often avoidably, Ron entered into areas of mediation and family therapy work, largely replacing his earlier work as a family lawyer and litigator.
As the original creator of Australian Families, Ron has worked to bring together our growing number of skilled people covering a wide area of professional skills and resources, and now focuses his own time on mediation and therapy work with families in distress.
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Professional Qualifications
1967 – Bachelor of Arts, Sydney University – English, Modern History, Philosophy and Economics
1970 – Bachelor of Laws, Sydney University
1970 – Admitted to Role of Solicitors, Attorneys of Supreme Court of New South Wales.
1971 – Admitted to Role of Solicitors, Attorneys of High Court of Australia
2001 – Mediation Certificate, Bond University.
2011 – Modules 1 and 2 Outpatient Therapy training at South Pacific Private Hospital, Sydney
Professional Associations and Related
Throughout his long career in the area of Family Law, Ron has participated at various times in the following areas of his profession:
Member of Family Law Committee of NSW Law Society
Member of Australian Family Law Association
Board member of Sydney Family Law Practitioners Association
Co-editor of Butterworths Family Law Practice
Lecturer on Family Law Act property law at Sydney College of Law
Key-note Speaker on Family Mediation to court counsellors, social workers and family lawyers, Coogee, Sydney.
Speaker on Law Practice management – Australian Law Conference, Sydney
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Professional Experience
As the department head of one of Australia’s largest family law practices Ron developed a team of family lawyers working under him that first pioneered family law practice focussed on conciliation style of family law practice. Ron developed both mediation and negotiation strategies and practices designed to limit or contain the use of the Family Court for resolution of family disputes and endings. This new style of practice brought to him clients from all walks of life, and from most States of Australia.
Throughout his career, long before mediation became a Court preferred option for family dispute resolution, Ron’s non-litigious approach to family dispute resolution brought mediation referrals of clients with family problems from members of the legal profession, and the public generally, increasing his resolve and desire to further this work both himself, and by his team of family lawyers.
Today, Ron has completed early training in family therapy areas with a Sydney clinic associated with an internationally renowned American clinic focussing on relationship issues and their resolution, and now utilises that additional training in all areas of his family related practice – in his selected family law cases, his mediation practice and now his developing family mediation/therapy areas of work.
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Other Areas of Legal/Commercial Experience
While always conducting his family law practice Ron was for some 16 years also managing partner of one of Sydney’s large law firms, responsible for management and development of its wide range of legal services to the Sydney and Australian business community.
That area of his work had him gain experience in many commercial and industrial areas of law, working alongside his partners and other lawyers within his firm providing a wide range of law services.
Within this wider practice area Ron also conducted mediations of commercial disputes within various industry areas, including the tourism and fashion industries in particular. He has also mediated franchise disputes and other areas of commercial dispute.
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Leading Casework
 Ron was solicitor instructing senior counsel in a still leading case on domestic violence, Kennon v Kennon (1997) FLC 92-757, obtaining both general and punitive damages against the offending spouse.
This important case remains relevant to issues of family conduct within marriage and relationship, notwithstanding Australia’s no-fault divorce laws.
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Personal Interests
Ron’s personal interests include, travel, particularly in USA, reading, sailing, skiing, tennis, squash….and a little golf.
Future Life Ambition
To contribute, along with others in Australian Families, to providing a multi-skilled resource of people dedicated to assisting families in trouble, with the aim of saving those relationships that can be, and helping those that can’t, avoid the trauma, emotional and economic cost of Family Court litigation.
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