Mark is active in a number of community organisations.
He is a current board member of Connect Child & Family Services in the Blue Mountains, and a former board member of both Gunedoo Child Protection Service and Blue Mountains Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Service.
He is a regular solicitor volunteer at Macquarie Legal Centre in Parramatta, and provides pro bono family law advice and mentoring to lawyers and advocates working in a number of other Community Legal Centres and tenancy services across NSW.
Mark also presents seminars in family law and elder law to a variety of community groups and organisations via Elizabeth Evatt Community Legal Centre as well as through a number of other community agencies.
If you would like Mark to address your community agency or group, contact us here with your details and requirements.
About Mark
Mark MacDiarmid is accredited as a specialist in family law by the Law Society of NSW, having become a lawyer in 1986 after graduating with degrees in Arts and Law from the University of Sydney. He holds a Postgraduate Diploma of Psychology from Charles Sturt University, a Graduate Diploma in Family Dispute Resolution from the Australian Institute of Social Relations, and is a member of the NSW Legal Aid Commission’s Independent Children’s Lawyer and Mental Health Advocacy Panels. He is a member of the Law Society of NSW, the Family Law Section of the Law Council of Australia, a practitioner member of LEADR and a member of the Australian Institute of Family Law Arbitrators and Mediators (AIFLAM). Mark is accredited by the Federal Attorney General’s Department to provide compulsory Family Dispute Resolution and to issue s60I Certificates under the Family Law Act for disputes involving children. He is also an Accredited Mediator under the National Mediator Accreditation System, a member of the Law Society of NSW's Mediator Panel and the NSW District Court panel of Mediators.
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