A Guide to ACAT
What better way to master your practice and procedure in the ACAT than to hear firsthand from a Senior Member? Pick up essential tips and tricks as Senior Member Jann Lennard shares her experience and provides practical guidance on the key issues faced when litigating in ACAT. Learn what not to do and better understand the role of negotiation and conciliation. This is essential viewing for any lawyer who appears in ACAT.
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD unit in Professional Skills
This program is based on ACT legislation
Chair: Alisa Taylor, Partner, Meyer Vandenberg Lawyers; Recommended Property and Real Estate Lawyer, Doyle’s Guide 2020
A Guide to ACT Civil & Administrative Tribunal
- What members look for from lawyers
- What not to do
- What to do when the other side does not have a lawyer: the challenges (at each stage of the proceedings) in dealing with self-represented parties
- What happens in a hearing
- Role of negotiation and conciliation
- The new ACAT Rules: what to know and look out for
Presented by Jann Lennard, Senior Member, ACT Civil & Administrative Tribunal; Australian Lawyer; Nationally Accredited Mediator; General Member, NSW Civil & Administrative Tribunal
Presenters
Jann Lennard
Jann taught law at University of Canberra from 1988 to 2006, publishing several textbooks during that time. Her special subjects were contract, property, equity, trade practices and consumer law. Jann served as a Member of the Residential Tenancy Tribunal in ACT and the Consumer, Trader and Tenancy Tribunal in NSW before being appointed as a Senior Member in ACAT in 2009 and a General Member of NCAT in 2011.
Alisa Taylor
Alisa is the Partner leading Meyer Vandenberg’s litigation and dispute resolution team. Her personal passion is resolving property and construction disputes, as well as assisting her clients to avoid disputes through effective project management and contract administration. Alisa lectures in Building and Construction Law at both the University of Canberra and the Canberra Institute of Technology, and she sits on a number of committees and boards which have provided input into the ACT Government’s ongoing reform of building regulation