This recorded webinar was originally presented as part of Rural Issues Day 2020

This session includes an overview of the role of the Natural Resources Access Regulator (NRAR) and what the NRAR do in both licensing and compliance areas. This session will examine recent compliance activities in enforcing Water Management Act, including recent monitoring, auditing activities, prosecutions, and court decisions.

This recorded webinar was originally presented as part of Rural Issues Day 2020

This session will cover recent Court of Appeal cases relating to the requirement of testamentary capacity and ‘knowledge and approval’ for valid wills, given the growing trend to dispute both aspects in recent times. The session will also include a discussion of the latest interesting informal will cases, and the requirements to validly revoke a will. 

In this session, Claire Booth, Senior Associate with Duffy Elliot Lawyers, explores how we can assist clients through this process. She also takes a closer look at leases, releasing equity to off-farm kids, and how clients can manage the slow corporatisation of the family farm.

This recorded webinar was originally captured during the Specialist Accreditation conference 2021 - Employment & Industrial Law stream. 

This session looks at the following significant recent cases:

• Bowker & Ors v DP World Melbourne
• Newton v Toll Transport Pty Ltd
• Amec Foster Wheeler v CEPU
• Seo v Bindaree Food Group Pty Ltd

These recordings were captured as part of the Specialist Accreditation conference 2021 - Business Law stream

The Law Society’s annual Specialist Accreditation Conference allows practitioners to keep up to date and ahead of the curve in their area of accreditation.

Topics include:

• Business and personal structuring
  
• Restraint of trade
  
• Due diligence for business sales and purchases
  
• Law reforms for incorporated small businesses and illegal phoenix activity
  

These recordings were captured as part of the Specialist Accreditation conference 2021 - Employment & Industrial Law stream

The Law Society’s annual Specialist Accreditation Conference allows practitioners to keep up to date and ahead of the curve in their area of accreditation.

Topics include:

• Work Health and Safety – refresher and recent developments
  
• Disability and employment
  
• Workplace investigations update
  
• Modern slavery compliance and resourcing practices
  

These recordings were captured as part of the Specialist Accreditation conference 2021 - Family Law stream

The Law Society’s annual Specialist Accreditation Conference allows practitioners to keep up to date and ahead of the curve in their area of accreditation.

Topics include:

• The court merger and the new Federal Circuit and Family Court
  
• Medical decision making, uncertainty and vaccination decisions
  
• What the Family Court doesn’t realise about tax liabilities
  
• How to get the best out of your barrister (by a barrister who was once a solicitor)
  

These recordings were captured as part of the Specialist Accreditation conference 2021 - Personal Injury stream

The Law Society’s annual Specialist Accreditation Conference allows practitioners to keep up to date and ahead of the curve in their area of accreditation.

Topics include:

• Update and insights into the Personal Injury Commission six months on
• Motor accidents compensation: claiming for lost income
• Public liability update
• A discussion of trending issues in Institutional Abuse

These recordings were captured as part of the Specialist Accreditation conference 2021 - Property Law stream

The Law Society’s annual Specialist Accreditation Conference allows practitioners to keep up to date and ahead of the curve in their area of accreditation.

Topics include:

• Put and call options – issues and update
• Cyber risk masterclass
• Power to the Land and Environment Court
• Recent professional negligence claims against property lawyers

These recordings were captured as part of the Specialist Accreditation conference 2021 - Wills & Estates stream

The Law Society’s annual Specialist Accreditation Conference allows practitioners to keep up to date and ahead of the curve in their area of accreditation.

Topics include:

• Challenges in the conduct of “succession” case across jurisdictional boundaries
  
• Judicial advice – the state of play – practical and forensic considerations
  
• Indigenous people and succession law: intestacy and drafting of culturally appropriate wills
  
• “Treating doctor” evidence is the new black of expert opinion in mental capacity cases: guidance for treating doctor reports
  

Strategic litigation goes beyond than stating your case before a judge. Your rate of success in court will be aided by careful preparation, planning and strategy. 

In this course, Kylie Nomchong SC, Barrister, Denman Chambers will distill her knowledge and experience in the courtroom when dealing with: 

• An application for a permanent stay – abuse of process
• Restraining a solicitor from acting – including on the grounds of conflict of interest
• Restraining a former solicitor from acting due to a breach of duty to protect confidential information

Surcharge purchaser duty and land tax

This session will present a structured framework for responding to the current compliance crisis: 

• Getting the due diligence right from the start 
• Key traps to watch out for 
• What to do if your clients received a foreign surcharge Notice of Investigation 

Practitioners should inform themselves of Rule 6.1 of the Legal Profession Uniform Continuing Professional Development (Solicitors) Rules 2015 which sets out the requirements for the four (4) mandatory CPD areas for NSW legal practitioners – (a) ethics and professional responsibility; (b) practice management and business skills; (c) professional skills; and (d) substantive law. It is the responsibility of each legal practitioner to self-assess as to whether a particular educational activity extends their knowledge and skills in areas that are relevant to their practice needs or professional development.