Hear from our legal experts about your professional obligations, while earning three CPD units.

Getting your practice ready for AML/CTF reforms and an introduction to AML/CTF risk assessments – Carol Prasad, Professional Support Solicitor, Legal Regulation, Law Society of NSW

This session will address matters a captured law practice will need to start thinking about in order to comply with AML/CTF obligations. It will cover:

• The Australian AML/CTF regulatory framework.
• The potential harm money laundering and terrorism financing can cause.
• Why law practices are captured by the reforms.
• The key obligations under the AML/CTF legislation.
• What a risk assessment is, and where to start.

Professional responsibility for serving the administration of justice – Linden Barnes, Senior Ethics Solicitor, Law Society of NSW

This session will examine how our professional obligations give us a framework for our client relationship. Areas covered will include:

• Duties to the court.
• Confidentiality obligations.
• Client instructions.

Disclosure and applying the Harman undertaking – Roxana Carrion, Special Counsel, Clayton Utz

The Harman undertaking serves as a vital safeguard in litigation, with breaches—whether intentional or inadvertent—potentially leading to contempt of court and serious ethical consequences for solicitors. This presentation will guide you in understanding:

• your obligations around disclosure in proceedings;
• breaches and exceptions to the Harman undertaking; and
• applications for relief.

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. 

If you self-assess that this particular educational activity extends your knowledge and skills, this program may allow you to claim three (3) of the mandatory areas: (a) ethics and professional responsibility; (b) practice management and business skills; and (c) professional skills.