In 2021 the new Small Business Restructuring Process started as a restructuring procedure to rescue insolvent businesses. This new procedure now exists alongside the 1993 Voluntary Administration process and the two procedures are very different from the other. Ben Sewell discusses how to evaluate which insolvent SMEs should use the Small Business Restructuring Process or Voluntary Administration or just go straight into voluntary liquidation.

Talitha Fishburn and Angus Macinnis discuss important recent authorities that all civil litigators need to know, including Glencore International AG v Commissioner of Taxation [2019] HCA 26 and its implications for legal professional privilege.

This recorded webinar was originally captured during the Specialist Accreditation conference 2021 - Wills & Estates stream. 

This session covers the following issues:

• The problems created for Indigenous people (including the burgeoning Indigenous middle class) by the mainstream succession law
• New intestacy provisions for Indigenous people in NSW
• Drafting culturally appropriate wills - tips and traps

This recorded webinar was originally captured during the 2021 Government Solicitors Conference

In this session, Elizabeth Tydd looks at some significant changes in the Information and Privacy Commission (IPC):

• New legislation around the Digital Restart Fund and case studies
• Regulatory interventions and recommendations including local council audits and other audits
• Lessons learnt through 10 years of operation of the GIPA Act

In this webinar, experienced insolvency expert Ben Sewell will discuss how COVID-19 has affected corporate insolvency law and what legal practitioners can do right now for clients at risk of insolvency.

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

This session looks at the following issues:

• Defining different types of payments
• Basic property settlement principles in Family Law
• Context
• The starting point:  Aleksovski v Aleksovsi (1996) FLC 92-705
• Case law following Alekovski
• What to do if a client tells you they are getting a divorce

This session will address the emergence of sustainable finance in the recent years and will cover the developing key principles of green loans and sustainably linked loans in Australia. You will also be provided with some practical considerations for documenting green loans/sustainably linked loans into facility agreements.

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. If so, then the practitioner may claim one (1) "unit” for each hour of attendance, refreshment breaks not included. 

This recorded webinar was originally captured during the 2021 Specialist Accreditation conference 2021 - Business Law stream and 2021 Specialist Accreditation conference 2021 - Property Law stream

This session looks at the decision in BP7 Pty Ltd v Gavancorp Pty Ltd and changes from Revenue NSW in relation to purchaser’s declarations.

This recorded webinar was originally captured during the Specialist Accreditation conference 2021 - Wills & Estates stream. 

This session looks at the following issues:

• Procedural essentials, applicants other than personal representatives and trustees?
• Vexing and borderline decisions - the necessity for advice?
• Litigation advice - when should the approval of the Court be reconsidered?
• Does the existence of personal claims or allegations against the executor/trustee preclude advice?

This recorded webinar was originally captured during the 2021 Government Solicitors Conference

In this session, Dr Amanda Sapienza looks at:

• The use of “under no duty to consider” (non-compellable) powers in the Migration Act;
• Jurisdiction to conduct judicial review of the exercise of such functions;
• How such powers, and other functions that officials are not required to do, may (or may not) be amenable to judicial review; and
• Establishing grounds of review in respect of such functions.

This module examines the new developments applicable to running disputes under the Motor Accident Injuries Act 2017 (NSW):

• Key procedural changes
• Decisions concerning legal costs
• Publication, surveillance recordings and hearings during the COVID-19 pandemic
• Developments in minor injury
• Serious driving offence
• Other relevant developments.

This course is produced in NSW and features a NSW-based practitioner. This course is available to all NSW based practitioners.