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Alternative dispute resolution options for family law – on-demand recording

1 CPD Unit   On-demand recording
Substantive lawconferencerecord21
Online

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

In this session, experts who practice in one or more of each of the above ADR processes will give practical advice on the following issues:

  • What ADR processes exist (excluding arbitration) and what they each entail
  • Lawyer negotiation, mediation, lawyer assisted mediation, collaborative practice
  • Which processes you should use for which cases, and how to prepare yourself and your client
Recorded on 05 August 2021
Sue Abrams*, Solicitor and Director, ATW Family Law
Bernie Bolger, Principal, The Mediation Collective
Simeon Levin, Lead Advisor, Fitzpatricks Private Wealth

1 CPD units

Non-Member $150.00
Member $105.00

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Disability and employment - videocast

1 CPD Unit    Videocast  
Substantive lawconferencerecord21
Online

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

Around 2.1 million people with disability in Australia are of working age.  This session looks at the following topics around disability and employment:

  • What do the numbers tell us?
  • Segregated employment
  • Disability discrimination issues – areas of unlawful conduct; reasonable adjustments; inherent requirements
  • Intersection of WHS laws and disability discrimination

Recorded on 15 July 2021
Kate Eastman AM SC, Barrister, New Chambers

1 CPD units

Non-Member $150.00
Member $105.00

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Due diligence for business sales and purchases - recorded webinar

1 CPD Unit   Recorded webinar
Substantive lawconferencerecord21
Online

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

This session considers the following issues:

  • Why do due diligence?
  • Caveat Emptor
  • What precisely is due diligence?
  • Checking against what?
  • Statements and Assumptions
  • What can be disclosed by vendor
  • Limiting the scope of the due diligence exercise
  • Preliminary comments on identifying material risks
  • Understanding the Business
  • Who participates in, or co-ordinates, due diligence exercises?
  • Contractual due diligence periods
  • Controlling and managing the flow of information
  • Dealing with an online data room
  • What information should the data room contain
  • The contractual significance of due diligence disclosure material
  • The disclosure letter
  • Specific issues
  • Due diligence and OHS
  • The due diligence report
Recorded on 05 August 2021
Selwyn Black*, Partner, Carroll & O' Dea

1 CPD units

Non-Member $150.00
Member $105.00

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How to get the best out of your barrister (by a barrister who was once a solicitor) - recorded webinar

1 CPD Unit   Recorded webinar 
Substantive lawconferencerecord21
Online

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

Briefing counsel is almost an inevitability for solicitors practising in the area of family law. 

In this session, Melissa provides 10 tips for ensuring you and your client get optimum value from counsel.

Recorded on 05 August 2021
Melissa Gillies SC, Barrister, Culwulla Chambers

1 CPD units

Non-Member $150.00
Member $105.00

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Indigenous people and succession law: Intestacy and drafting of culturally appropriate wills – On-demand recording

1 CPD Unit   On-demand recording
Substantive lawconferencerecord21
Online

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
Recorded on 05 August 2021
Professor Prue Vines, Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales

1 CPD units

Non-Member $150.00
Member $105.00

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Materiality as a criterion of jurisdictional error – On-demand recording

1 CPD Unit   On-demand recording 
Substantive lawconferencerecord21
Online

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

In this session Dr Juliet Lucy looks at materiality as a criterion of jurisdictional error, as discussed by the High Court in Hossain v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection (2018) 264 CLR 123 and Minister for Immigration and Border Protection v SZMTA (2019) 264 CLR 421.

Recorded on 07 September 2021
Dr Juliet Lucy, Barrister, St James Hall Chambers

1 CPD units

Non-Member $150.00
Member $105.00

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Robust decision-making - recorded webinar

 0.5 CPD Unit   Recorded webinar 
Practice management and business skillsconferencerecord21
Online

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

In this session, Greg Wrobel provides a framework for decision-making and the considerations that decision-makers (and their legal advisers) should take into account at each stage of the process to seek to minimise the prospects that their decision will be successfully challenged.  Greg focusses on administrative decision-making within the NSW State Government context, although the principles apply to each level of government. The session includes a discussion of the following issues:

  • Some provisions in NSW legislation and codes of conduct which are relevant to the decision-making process;
  • Some recent case example from NSW courts and courts in other jurisdictions which address specific aspects of decision-making; and
  • Practical suggestions to approach the decision-making process.
Recorded on 07 September 2021
Greg Wrobel, Partner, Holding Redlich

0.5 CPD units

Non-Member $105.00
Member $75.00

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The negotiating of parenting matters - recorded webinar

1 CPD Unit   Recorded webinar  
Substantive lawconferencerecord21
Online

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

In this session Carly looks at the following parenting issues:

  • How to advise and guide your client to the best resources in parenting matters
  • Useful tools to navigate co-parenting issues
  • Parenting arrangements
Recorded on 05 August 2021
Carly Middleton*, Partner, Barkus Doolan Family Lawyers

1 CPD units

Non-Member $150.00
Member $105.00

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When government is your client - recorded webinar

1 CPD Unit    Recorded webinar
conferencerecord21
Online

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

In this session, Bret Walker AO SC discusses some complex issues for government solicitors relating to defining your client and your responsibilities as a legal practitioner in a government role.  With a focus on ethics, Bret addresses:

  • Who is your client and to whom is your duty, including discussion on government as a client with no private interest, and clarification of the difference between the state and the people
  • Professional independence
  • The business of government
  • Confidentiality
  • The public interest
  • Secrecy
  • Legal professional privilege
Recorded on 07 September 2021
Bret Walker AO SC, Barrister, 5th Floor St James Hall

1 CPD units

Non-Member $150.00
Member $105.00

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