10 CPD Points in One Day in Cairns
Don’t have time to earn your CPD points in dribs and drabs over the course of a year? This program is designed to give you the need-to-know updates for your practice and all of your CPD points, including the compulsory units, in one go. All at one place, all in one day. Attend the full program or just book the session you want. It’s as simple as that.
Description
Attend the full day and earn 10 CPD points including:
7 units in Substantive Law
1 unit in Practical Legal Ethics
1 unit in Practice Management and Business Skills
1 unit in Professional Skills
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
Session 1
Wills & Estates and Family Law
Chair: Vince Bailey, Principal, Vince Bailey Lawyers
7.30am to 8.30am: Succession Law Allsorts: A Wills and Estates Update
- Informal will applications
- Enduring Powers of Attorney
- Family Provision applications
- Executors commissions
- Court authorised will applications
Presented by Jeneve Frizzo, Principal, Queensland Law Society Accredited Specialist (Succession Law) and Sally-Ann Hayward, Senior Associate, The Will & All
8.30am to 9.30am: Family Law Case Update
Catch up on all the latest cases, analyse the key facts of each and why they’re important, and gain insights into the critical takeaways of each and how to apply them in your practice.
Presented by Amanda Millyard, Director, Millyard Family Lawyers and Josh Trevino, Barrister, Trinity Chambers
9.30am to 9.45am: Morning Tea
Session 2
Personal Injury, Crime and Workplace Law Roundup
Chair: Michael Dalton, Barrister, Endeavour Chambers
9.45am to 10.45am: Current Issues in Personal Injury Law
- Latest developments and trends in personal injuries damages cases
- Workers compensation update
Presented by Chris Ryall, Barrister, Maritime Chambers
10.45am to 11.45am: Employment Law: The Urgent Concerns
- Managing leave and salary liabilities: What can an employer request of employees?
- Negotiating, documenting and implementing flexible work arrangements
- Restructures and redundancies: understanding an employer’s obligations when restructuring a workforce
- Criteria required for redundancy selection
- The rising risk of employer liability – avoiding pitfalls in a restructuring process
- Unfair dismissals and adverse action claims
- Discrimination and workplace rights
Presented by Mark Peters, Principal, and Madonna Galeano, Associate, Peters Bosel Lawyers
11.45am to 12.45pm: Recent Developments in Criminal Law
Delve into the latest trends, developments and cases in criminal law. Whether you’re a criminal law specialist or only need to know the most important developments, you will explore the most important cases, why they’re of significance, and what you need to know about each case.
Presented by Stephanie Williams, Barrister, Endeavour Chambers
12.45pm to 1.15pm: Networking Lunch
Session 3
CPD Mandatory Core Areas
Chair: Michael Jonsson QC, Trinity Chambers
Professional Skills
1.15pm to 2.15pm: Developing Business Succession Planning Skills to Assist your Clients
Ascertain how to realise a business succession plan to be able to give suitable advice to your clients. Providing business clients, including family businesses, with estate and succession planning advice is an area where you as a trusted adviser can play a key role to assist your clients to ensure that they have appropriate arrangements in place in case the worst happens. Once the plan and the desired arrangements are in place, you will be well positioned to unlock further work based on the knowledge gained not only in relation to the business, but also the personal circumstances of the business owners and their families.
Presented by Maree Clark, Associate, Brien Leibinger Lawyers
Practice Management and Business Skills
2.15pm to 3.15pm: Managing Client Expectations
- Identify the nature of your client’s expectations: ‘fuzzy’, ‘implicit’, ‘unrealistic’, or ‘realistic’
- What to do when your instructions are vague and/or your retainer is imprecise
- Managing the scope and content of your duty to your client
- When to exercise the penumbral duty of care when dealing with your clients
Presented by Christopher Taylor, Barrister, Trinity Chambers Cairns & Level 18 Chambers Brisbane
Practical Legal Ethics
3.15pm to 4.15pm: Your Duties to Your Client, the Court and the Profession
- Ethical issues for the experienced advocate
- What to do when your client is being dishonest, whether in transactional matters or litigation
- Ethics hypotheticals for consideration together with the cases or scenarios from which they are drawn
Presented by John Eylander, Barrister, Commercial Court Chambers
4.15pm to 4.30pm: Afternoon Tea
Session 4
Property, Commercial and Contract Law Roundup
Chair: Joanne Parisi, Director, MacDonnells Law
4.30pm to 5.10pm: Commercial Tenancy Update and the Consequences of COVID-19
- An overview of the National Cabinet Mandatory Code of Conduct and the Retail Shop Leases and Other Commercial Leases (COVID-19 Emergency Response) Regulation 2020
- Lease negotiations and formalisation of arrangement
Presented by James Harding, Senior Associate, Holding Redlich
5.10pm to 5.50pm: Contract Law Roundup
A review and analysis of significant contract decisions during the last 12 months that will affect your legal practice.
Presented by John Seccull, Principal, John Seccull Law
5.50pm to 6.30pm: Conveyancing Refresher (by live webcast)
- Conveyancing case law update
- Stamp duty traps for residential property
- When you can vary a contract by correspondence and when you need a deed of variation
- Sunset clauses
- Non-completion of off-the-plan conveyancing
Presented by Roland Taylor, Owner, Statewide Conveyancing Shop
Venue
Shangri-La Hotel Cairns
Pierpoint Road
THE MARINA
Cairns 4870
QLD
Australia