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This session was recorded on 14 March 2023 as part of the Panel: Lawyers, children and the legal system – a guide to best practice - face-to-face seminar. How does the law impact children and how do children exercise their rights through the legal system? Join 2023 President of the Law Society, Cassandra Banks, who will moderate a diverse and expert panel on how the legal system affects children and how lawyers and the legal profession may best work with children. Children are subject to civil and criminal laws that have been developed to address their welfare needs, community protection and contractual relationships. Children can be held responsible for a crime from the age of ten yet they may not be asked to contribute to care plans or to provide informed consent when entering contracts. Their conduct, their parental orders and their disputes must be negotiated by lawyers through dispute resolution or in court. This session will look at how lawyers may work to better protect children and the positive actions they may take when working with children. The specific needs of indigenous children within our legal system will be discussed, including consequences of the crossover between care and criminalisation. More widely, the need for lawyers and legal systems to intervene earlier to prevent distress, injury and trauma and where NSW sits within an international approach to issues between children and the law. |
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Cassandra Banks, 2023 President, The Law Society of New South Wales Dr Gary K Banks, Principal clinical psychologist and Managing Director, Sydney Counselling Centre Her Honour Judge Nell Skinner, President, Children's Court of New South Wales Dr Paul Gray, Associate Professor, Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education and Research, University of Technology Sydney | |
Children's Law |
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Panel: Lawyers, children and the legal system – a guide to best practice – videocast
1.5 CPD Units Videocast |
1.5 CPD units
Panel: Managing your mental health in the legal profession and best practice for employers – videocast
1.5 CPD Units Videocast |
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This session was recorded on 22 February 2023 as part of the Panel: Managing your mental health in the legal profession and best practice for employers - face-to-face seminar. Wellness, including mental wellbeing, is a critical issue for the legal profession. Lawyers work long hours, and the work is often highly stressful. This Panel brings experts together to discuss learnings on best practice for workplace wellbeing, strategies for coping and tools to assist us all.
The Solicitor Outreach Service (SOS) is an independent and confidential counselling service for NSW solicitors. Call 1800 592 296 to access this service. If you're not a NSW solicitor and you need support, Lifeline provides all Australians access to 24-hour crisis support and suicide prevention services. Call 13 11 14 to access this service. For information about other nationally available mental health support services, click here |
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Cassandra Banks, 2023 President, The Law Society of New South Wales Renee Mill, Clinical Psychologist, Anxiety Solutions CBT Brett Feltham, Senior Consultant, King & Wood Mallesons Dr Greg de Moore, Psychiatrist and Minds Count board member, NSW Health |
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mental health, stress, burnout, burnt out, mental illness, workplace health and safety, workplace health &safety, workplace, health, safety law, anxiety, depression |
1.5 CPD units
The art of negotiation: Tools for success – in-person workshop
Thursday 6 June 2024 | |
6 CPD Units Face-to-face workshop |
9:30 AM 4:30 PM | |
The Law Society of New South Wales, 170 Phillip Street, Sydney NSW 2000 | |
We are all seasoned negotiators and as successful professionals we bring considerable experience to the process. Despite this, many of us still leave a negotiation wondering what we might have done differently and better and whether we maximised our negotiation opportunities.
In an interactive environment, this is also an opportunity to look at:
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Rosemary Howell, International Mediator & Facilitator, Strategic Action |
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Data breach, drafting affidavits, ethics |
6 CPD units
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