Film and Television Law Conference: Recovery and Beyond

In this timely and practical conference you will delve into how to navigate the many legal risks and challenges that the industry is facing right now. Gain a global perspective on the industry from a major film distribution company in New York. Examine strategies and protocols to successfully reignite production while avoiding the related legal risks. Explore how to navigate the latest legal issues in insurance, immigration, structuring, contracting and more.

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Attend and earn 7 CPD units in Substantive Law
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories

Co-Chairs: Mark Bamford, Director, Simpsons Solicitors and Sonia Borella, Consultant, Simpsons Solicitors

9.00am to 9.05am: Welcome from the Chairs

COVID-19 PRODUCTION IMPACT: LEGAL RISKS & RECOVERY STRATEGIES

9.05am to 9.30am: Keynote Address Live from New York: The Global Perspective

Examine and analyse the legal challenges and the impact of COVID-19 on traditional film release and distribution and look beyond to what the future may bring for the industry from a global perspective.
Presented by David Morrison, Head of Business Affairs, Magnolia Pictures

9.30am to 10.35am: Update on COVID-19’s Production Impact: The Opportunities, Legal Pitfalls and Lessons Learned

  • IR and WHS risks: contracting and working safely
  • Practicalities of managing production: cast and crew and on location
  • The cost impact of complying with COVID-19 safe production methods: What is the real cost?
  • Financing productions during COVID-19: investors, financiers, broadcasters and distributors
  • Screen Australia on managing the Government’s $50M underwriting of COVID-19 risks
  • Review of current production: challenges and opportunities


Panellists:
Georgina Waite, Facilitator, Head of Content Business, Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Max Dalton, Head of Business and Legal Affairs, Fulcrum Media Finance
Tim Phillips, Head of Business Affairs and Offset, Screen Australia
Zoe Angus, 
Director, Industry and Commercial, Screen Producers Associations, Australia
Kate Hynes, Head of Legal and Business Affairs, Hoodlum
Lyn Norfor, Acting Head of Producing and Production, Australian Film Television and Radio School
Sally Caplan, Head of Content, Screen Australia

10.35am to 11.10am: COVID-19 Safe Guidelines for the Film and Television Industry: Navigating the Legal Issues

Presented by Michael Tooma, Managing Partner, Clyde & Co

11.10am to 11.25am: Break

11.25am to 12.10pm: Managing Insurance Risks around Recovery and Beyond

Presented by David McEwan, Founding Director, Galvaniize Insurance 

12.10pm to 12.55pm: Immigration Law: Border Restrictions and Critical Skills Update

  • Border and quarantine: what is happening
  • Visa processing: who is getting visas
  • Where to next

Presented by Ron Kessels, Partner and Navpreet Kanwar, Solicitor and Team Manager, Ajuria Lawyers

12.55pm to 1.00pm: Q&A and Closing Comments from the Chairs

1.00pm to 1.45pm: Lunch Break

FINANCE AND COMPANY STRUCTURING

1.45pm to 2.35pm: Supporting Australian Stories on our Screens: The Government Options Paper

  • The rise of digital platforms, and the challenge for the traditional broadcaster regulatory framework
  • Developments in screen finance across different types of programming
  • Proposals on the table, with models from no change to complete deregulation
  • The position of the various players, and the future of the film and TV industry in Australia

Presented by Michael Brealey, COO, Screen Australia and Daniel Pearce, Partner, Holding Redlich

2.35pm to 3.25pm: Production Company Structuring

  • New solutions to traditional corporate and financing structures
  • Issues affecting foreign-owned production companies
  • Trends in cashflow and gap financing, including corporate guarantees and personal undertakings
  • Impacts of revised production deadlines on financing documents

Presented by Nick Mark, Associate, Blueprint Law and Tony Nagle, Principal, Nagle Accounting

3.25pm to 3.40pm: Break

CONTENT AND CONTRACTING IN TODAY'S ENVIRONMENT

3.40pm to 4.10pm: Australian Content Quota: Are we Maintaining a Cultural Identity?

  • Setting out the existing Australian content quota system
  • The context of how they work, why they are outdated/why or where there is a policy failure in terms of their operation
  • The current government review, what they are looking at & options for the future

Presented by Sarah Waladan, Head of Legal and Regulatory Affairs, Free TV Australia

4.10pm to 4.50pm: Contracting Cast and Crew in the Film and Television Industry

  • Industrial framework for contracting cast and crew
  • Contracting for offshore productions
  • Common contracting and employment issues

Presented by Zachary Parker, Lawyer and Angela Scurrah, Consultant, Simpsons Solicitors

4.50pm to 5.00pm: Final Q&A and Closing Comments from the Chairs

Presenters

David Morrison
David Morrison is Head of Business Affairs at Magnolia Pictures and 2929 Entertainment, where he oversees all business and legal affairs relating to the companies’ film, television, entertainment, and corporate matters. Previously, David has been a partner at Thompson Bukher in New York, where he led the firm’s media and entertainment practice, and a faculty member at the Cardozo School of law, where he co-founded and directed The Indie Film Clinic – the first non-profit clinical program in New York dedicated to providing production and clearance representation to scripted and documentary film productions.

Mark Bamford
Mark is a director at specialist entertainment and media law firm, Simpsons Solicitors, with over 25 years' experience in film and television. His clients are involved in all facets of financing, creating and commercialising content. He acts for producers, production houses and studios, and has advised on hundreds of TV and film productions ranging from large-budget studio features to award-winning, locally-produced TV animations. His clients also include directors, composers and marquee actors.  Mark has particular expertise in media finance and represents a number of banks, financiers, government funders and private equity interests

Georgina Waite
Georgina Waite is Head of Content Business at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, where she has recently been appointed to oversee strategic business planning to source content, manage expenditure and secure the rights to support the ABC’s content output and connection to audience.  She manages the teams responsible for negotiating deals terms, budgets and contracts for commissioned and acquired content and oversees reporting on those activities.  Georgina has worked at the ABC for many years as Head of Business Affairs and as a Senior Lawyer in the ABC legal team.

Max Dalton
Max joined Fulcrum in February 2018 as Business & Legal Affairs Manager and was given the new title of Head of Business & Legal Affairs in January 2020. Prior to joining Fulcrum, Max was a Lawyer at Holding Redlich, a national Australian commercial law firm. Max’s legal experience includes working in a wide range of areas of commercial law, including intellectual property, banking and finance, bankruptcy and insolvency, corporate compliance, competition and consumer law, privacy and commercial disputes. Max’s experience in the media and entertainment industries includes a clerkship in the entertainment practice group at Melbourne based law firm Marshalls + Dent.

Tim Phillips
Tim has worked as a Senior Investment Manager at Screen Australia across feature film, television, online, children’s content and game production. In his current role as Head of Business Affairs and Offset, he leads the Legal, Contracts Management and Producer Offset and Co-production teams. Tim has previously worked as Legal and Business Affairs Manager at the Australian Children’s Television Foundation and as an intellectual property lawyer at Minter Ellison.

Zoe Angus
Zoe Angus is the Director of Industry and Commercial at Screen Producers Australia and is responsible for SPA's industrial negotiations as well as providing advice to SPA members on commercial and industrial matters. Zoe previously held the role of National Director of Equity at the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance for six years and has more than two decades experience in employment law and industrial relations. She holds Juris Doctor and Master of Commerce (Honours) degrees from Melbourne University and a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree from Queensland University.

Kate Hynes
Kate leads the legal and business affairs function for production house Hoodlum, as well as acting as Group company secretary. In this role she has overseen the financing, production, broadcast and distribution of more than 40 hours of broadcast television in Australia for ABC and Network 10 and internationally for Netflix, Disney and NBCU/Sky Studios. In March 2020 Kate had the dubious honour of being the first production lawyer to stand down more than 400 Australian cast and crew in response to the COVID19 crisis. Since March, Hoodlum has stood up its cast and crews and managed to complete covidsafe production on television series HARROW and FIVE BEDROOMS

Lyn Norfor
Lyn Norfor is Head (Acting) of Producing and Production at the Australian Film Television and Radio School where she is responsible for all production for both the BA and MA courses (approx.  200 projects per year) as well as the MA in Producing. Lyn is also a founding partner of Emerald Productions with Sheila Jayadev and Prue Williams and has produced numerous award-winning short and feature films including UNDERTOW (W/D Miranda Nation; selected for screening at Edinburgh and Austin Film Festivals), HOT MESS (W/D Lucy Coleman, Netflix) and currently in production HERE OUT WEST, an anthology feature film in association with CoCurious with directors Ana Kokkinos, Leah Purcell, Lucy Gaffy, Julie Kalceff and Fadia Abboud. Lyn worked with the National Screen Sector Taskforce on the COVIDSafe Screen Sector Guidelines.

Michael Tooma
Michael Tooma is the Managing Partner of Clyde & Co Australia as well as the Global Head of Clyde & Co's Occupational Health and Safety practice. He is recognised as one of leading health and safety lawyers. While Michael resides in Australia, his work is truly global. He has acted in matters around the world and is often called upon to review the safety management systems of clients in a wide variety of industries globally. Michael holds a Bachelor of Commerce, a Bachelor of Laws with Honours and Masters of Laws. He is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Health and Safety and a recipient of its Lifetime Achievement Award. He has lectured at Sydney University, the University of NSW, Australian National University and University of Auckland. Michael has written and lectured extensively on OHS law and is the author or co-author of over 20 books. His latest book is on Mental Health at Work and is published by CCH.

David McEwan
David McEwan is the Founding Director of Galvaniize Insurance. He has over 20 + years’ experience. Having worked within small, medium and large international insurance firms, then establishing his own firm his knowledge of the insurance industry is vast, considerable and provides a wealth of expertise and experience to his clientele. David McEwan Galvaniize Insurance has established themselves as one of the leading Film & TV insurance brokers in Australia focussing on helping the industry as a whole from small to large productions.

Daniel Pearce
Dan Pearce works extensively in the entertainment industry, providing legal advice to producers or film, television, advertisements and on-line content, as well as other participants in the sector (including writers, performers, broadcasters, distributors, investors and funding agencies). In this capacity, Dan assists on projects from the earliest stages of development, through negotiation of the financing transaction documents, to production issues and arrangements for the exploitation of the program. Legal issues addressed include copyright creation, ownership and licensing, defamation and misleading conduct, privacy and confidentiality, and access to the various sources of funding in the sector (including the Producer Offset and other government screen incentives).

Nick Mark
Nick holds a Bachelor of Law and Arts from University of Sydney and has been practising in general commercial law, banking and finance since 2015. Since joining Blueprint Law, Nick has provided legal services to financiers, production companies, completion guarantors and screen agencies on a range of Australian and international feature film, television and documentary projects.

Tony Nagle
Tony Nagle is the founding partner at Nagle Accounting Pty Ltd – a leading film industry tax specialist. He has worked on over 500 film and television projects over the last 25 years. Tony has extensive experience in navigating the myriad of legal and accounting issues facing producers filming in Australia. Nagle Accounting has over 3000 active clients spread throughout Australia and overseas. Tony works with all major producer offset lenders, completion guarantors and film lawyers. He is currently  working extensively with international producers as more offshore productions continue to look at Australia as an attractive place to film.

Sonia Borella
Sonia Borella has worked in the film and television industry for over 20 years as a Media, Entertainment and Corporate Lawyer, and since 2016 also as a Producer and Executive Producer.  She advises the industry as a Consultant at Simpsons Solicitors and through her company, Borella Buchanan.  She has been the lead production lawyer on numerous major feature films, for studios and independent production companies, has advised many local and international television production companies, as well as financiers, investors, broadcasters, screen agencies and talent.  She has a particular expertise in international co-productions.  Sonia is a former Partner of Holding Redlich, where she chaired the firm's national media, entertainment and technology group.  She is also a former member of the advisory committees of each of Ausfilm and Screen Producers Australia, and lecturer at the Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS).  Sonia holds Bachelor of Laws (Hons) and Bachelor of Commerce degrees from the Australian National University (ANU) and a Master of Laws (Media, Communications and Information Technology Law) from the University of New South Wales (UNSW).

Ron Kessels
Ron Kessels has been practising law since 1990 and is admitted as a solicitor in the Supreme Court of New South Wales and the High Court of Australia. Ron is regarded as one of Australia's best immigration lawyers and has numerous times been voted as such in the Australian Financial Review annual Best Lawyers list. Ron's experience in the field of Immigration is extensive -from providing strategic advice to companies concerning their immigration and global mobility requirements through assisting in managing clients' visa and compliance programs to advocating for the industry to government and parliamentary inquiries and committees on proposed amendments migration to legislation and policy.

Navpreet Kanwar
Navpreet has been practising Immigration Law since 2010 and is admitted as a Solicitor in the Supreme Court of New South Wales.
Prior to joining Ajuria Lawyers in 2018, Navpreet worked with a global immigration firm providing strategic advice and assistance to corporate clients in a wide range of industry sectors. Navpreet has extensive experience in private client matters having assisted individuals and their families with family sponsored and skilled migration applications. She has a particular interest in the Arts and leads the firm’s Entertainment visa practice.

Sarah Waladan
Sarah is the Head of Legal and Regulatory Affairs and Joint Company Secretary at Free TV Australia. Sarah advises Free TV Australia’s members on all aspects of communications law, regulatory and policy issues.  Her focus areas include broadcasting and content regulation, copyright licensing and advertising law.  She is also a member of Australia’s Right to Know Coalition.  Prior to joining Free TV in 2013, Sarah has held various legal and policy roles across government and the private sector with a focus on media and intellectual property issues.

Zachary Parker
Zach joined Simpsons in 2017 and advises clients on a variety of film and TV matters. He has experience in development, financing and production, industrial relations and the representation of talent. Zach previously worked for a national commercial law firm and completed part of his legal training at a national broadcaster. He has worked as a public speaking coach and has experience operating a local record label and events company.

Angela Scurrah
Angela joined Simpsons at the beginning of 2019 after 8 years working at a leading media and entertainment law firm in London. She advises on all aspects of audio-visual production and has acted for clients from all areas of the industry including financiers (both private investors and state agencies), independent production companies, distributors and sales agents. Angela provides advice on how to protect or acquire audio visual rights, structure financing transactions and how to exploit and monetise rights. Angela has advised on international co-productions and on the availability of, and qualification criteria for, local funding subsidies and tax rebates.

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Issues covered include: perfecting security interests, applications for extensions of time, priority risks, disputes, applications and compliance

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Issues covered include: Parliamentary procedure, law making process, information, privilege

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Issues covered include: Privacy, data breach, privacy supply chain risks, privacy complaints, Privacy Act, data, GDPR

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Issues covered include: case update, strata law, planning, ipso facto

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Issues covered include: estate disputes, probate applications, family law, discovery, disclosure, mediation, ethics, mental health, dispute resolution, property law, employment law, consumer law, competition law, ipso facto regime, contracts

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Issues covered include: corporate misconduct, shareholder recovery, drafting shareholder agreements

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Issues covered include: contributions, property, investments, death benefits, insurance

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Issues covered include: precedents, discretionary trusts, value, asset protection and utility, inter vivos trusts, family trusts, superannuation, life insurance, family succession

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Issues covered include: trust structures, distribution strategies, asset protection

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Issues covered include: ATO, Taxation of trusts, Trust splitting, Fixed trust, distribution of capital gains, trust strutures, asset protection, sham trust, discretionary trust drafting, trust vesting and winding up, UPEs, Division 7A, loans, transfer duty on specie distributions, Trust Variations and Resolutions, Corporate Trustees, testamentary trusts.

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Issues covered include: VCAT's jurisdiction, evidence, procedural fairness, natural justice, Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal, VCAT, ADR, mediation, compulsory conference

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Issues covered include: Capacity, capacity disputes, equitable remedies, estate litigation, undue influence, unconscionable conduct, estoppel, extension of time, mediation, superannuation, testamentary trusts, enduring powers of attorney, financial agreements

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Issues covered include: Informal wills, Succession, Beneficiaries, Testators, Recent cases, Superannuation, Succession Law and Family Law, contested Probate, Undue Influence, Claims for adult children.

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Issues covered include: family provisions rpactice updates, costs, mediation, ethics

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Issues covered include: TAC, TAC statutory, WorkCover, WorkCover statutory, psych injuries, psychiatric impairment, serious injury, Workplace Injury Rehabilitation and Compensation Act, Medical Panel, serious injury applications, damages awards, damages

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Issues covered include: case update, legislation update, criminal injuries, impairment assessment, appeals to District Court

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Issues covered include: pre-accident risk assessment, workplace incidents, WHS litigation, pleas, defended hearings

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Issues covered include: incident management, reportable conduct scheme, complaint, workplace investigation, ill and injured staff, medical certificates

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Issues covered include: warranties, indemnities, insurance, M&A transactions

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Issues covered include: strata, short stay, body corporate, foreign investors, duty, CGT, interim planning decisions, administrative law rulings

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Issues covered include: privilege, waiver, the Harman Obligation, advocacy

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Issues covered include: blended families, second spouses, superannuation, case update

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Issues covered include: law making process, new laws, amendments, legislative drafting process, parliamentary bills, delegated legislation, tabling of documents, public interest immunity, PII, royal commissions, judicial inquiries, parliamentary inquiries, parliamentary privilege, executive privilege, parliamentary procedure, powers of parliament, inquiry powers, public sector

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Issues covered include: inherent risks of treatment, breach of duty and causation, delay, misdiagnosis, failure to diagnose, euthanasia, medical products, product liability, class actions, regulatory matters

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Issues covered include: Guardianship division, VCAT, moral duty, financial elder abuse, ethics, ethical considerations

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Issues covered include: discretionary trusts, trust and company law, tax implications for property settlements, financial documents

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Issues covered include: estate planning and succession, taxation, superannuation, Division 7A issues, testamentary trusts, blended families, foreign clients and assets, small businesses, aged care issues, executor risks

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Issues covered include: trusts, CGT concession, ATO rulings, discretionary trusts, vesting, winding up a trust

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Issues covered include: employment termination, contractors, single touch payroll, superannuation guarantee, payroll tax, FBT, expatriate tax overview, underpayment of wages, accessorial liability under the Fair Work Act

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Issues covered include: ALRC, discovery, financial proceedings, disclosure, companies, trusts, partnerships, deceased estate, alternative, restorative justice, mediation, mediator, successful family law practice, costs, billing, growth and development, domestic violence, family violence, trauma, protection orders, parenting orders, evidentiary rules, affidavits, parental alienation, ethics, ethical dilemmas

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Issues covered include: consumer data right, consumer law, ACCC, penalties, Royal Commission into the Financial Sector, employment law, mental health, whistleblowing, regulatory compliance

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Issues covered include: Consumer law, ACCC, consumer data right, ICT, IT contracts, privacy, employment, mental health, workplace investigation, unconscious bias

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Issues covered include: Consumer data right, big data, privacy, mandatory data breach reporting, GDPR, Banking Royal Commission, ACCC, consumer law, ACL, corporate social responsibility, modern slavery, ethics, mental health, practice management, workplace investigation

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Issues covered include: admissibility, advanced rulings, expert evidence, contracts, deeds, Royal Commissions, compulsory examinations, privilege, waiver, advocacy, interlocutory & urgent applications

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Issues covered include: Retail shop lease dispute, tenant, landlord, Retail Leases Act, QCAT, retail tenancy disputes, retail leasing, mediation, leasing disputes, combustible cladding, asbestos, tax, fitouts, depreciation, lease incentives, GST, commercial tenancies, market overview.

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In its 6th year, the Geelong 10 points in One day program offers insights from the industry front line practitioners. You don't have to travel to the CBD to gain updates of current topics and gain your compulsory CPD units. Attend the full program or choose the sessions most relevant to your practice.

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Issues covered include: Win and Retain more Clients, Stress Management, Privileged Evidence and Avoiding Inadvertent Waiver, Contract Disputes and Settlement of Litigation, Exclusion, Indemnity and Insurance Clauses, Insolvency Law Reform, Post-employment restraints, Property, Retail and Commercial Leasing.

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The vast majority of businesses in Australia are small businesses, so you better be prepared to provide up to date and expert advice when a small business client comes to you for help. That means being across the game changing developments stemming from the budget, the election and the Banking Royal Commission. Eleven experts working on small business advisory will give you the latest updates and cutting edge strategies on all of the key issues your small business clients will expect you to know.

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Issues covered include: immigration for business and investors, foreign investment, non-residents doing business, non-residents doing family business, owning a property, anti-money laundering, tax considerations and non-residents, estate planning, administration and sucession for migrations and foreign investors

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Issues covered include: exceeding expectations, plain English techniques, business acumen, resilience and wellbeing

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Issues covered include: Narcotic Drugs Act 1967, Medico Legal aspects, in-house counsel perspective, Courts, prescribing in the clinical setting

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Issues covered include: workplace discrimination, religious organisations, estate planning, crime, parenting, child support, parental rights

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Issues covered include: Technology, Blockchain, WayBack Evidence and Domain names, Directors liability, Quality and financial control, Ethics, manner of manufacture, Infringement, latests cases and developments.

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Issues covered include: Family court proceedings, Subpoena, Separation, Divorce, Family violence, Litigation, Evidence, New Redress Scheme, Child Safety Obligations, Royal Commission, Civil Claims for Institutional Abuse, Criminal Liability and Sexual Abuse, Child Safe Standards.

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Issues covered include: Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority (FASEA) Update, TBAR, Royal Commission, Pension options, SMSF Deed, Superannuation contributions, non-concessional contributions, Transfer Balance Account, Super Death Benefits, Binding death benefit nominations, blended families, incapacity.

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Issues covered include: Enterprise value, Tax strategies, Pre-Sale Restructuring, Selling Business with Property, CGT exemptions, Concessions, Property structure, Business valuation methodologies, Preparing a Business for Sale, Equity transfer to family, Third party sale, tangible and intangible assets, Intellectual Property, Privacy and Data Protection, M & A Merger and Acquisition.

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2019 is a significant year for the retirement village and aged care sectors. The Royal Commission is shaking up the industry, elder abuse and tax law are changing, and there are big shifts in integration and funding issues. Plus the many risks in estate planning, capacity, technology and more. With so much unrest in the sector it’s now more crucial than ever to stay up to date with the latest developments. Equip yourself with the strategies necessary to handle these issues for you client or organisation.

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Issues covered include: Tenancy, tenants, franchise lesing, office sharing, subleases, Dispustes, Variation, Surrender provisions and Termination of Leases, remedies, defaults and damages, co-tenancy, covenants, breaches, insolvency, financial issues and risk, Outgoings, Guarantees, Insurance, Indemnities, Case and Legislative Update.

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Issues covered include: Supreme Court of New South Wales, Service of Notices in Probate, Affidavit of Service, Grants of Probate and Administration, Letters of administration on intestacy, Special and limited grants, Taxation, executor and trustees, stamp duty, foregin estate, income tax, Probate case update decisions.

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Issues covered include: Sexual Harassment, Bullying and Work Safety Claims by Independent Contractors, Fair Work Act and Work Health and Safety Act, Uber and the Point to Point Transport Industry, Sham contracting, who is a contractor, who is an employee.

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Issues covered include: Finance and Property proceedings, Dispute Resolution, Pre-nuptial and nuptial agreements, Family Law Settlements, Transfer of tax debt, Bankruptcy, Spouse Maintenance orders variation, post-separation contributions, Accrued Jurisdiction of the Family Court, Contravention applications, Arbitration.

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Issues covered include: National Redress Scheme, Vicarious Liability in Civil Liability Amendment (Organisational Child Abuse Liability) Act, Expert evidence, Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, Medico-Legal.

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Issues covered include: Admissibility of expert evidence, High Court and Court of Criminal Appeal, Evidence Act, Admitted facts, Uncontested facts, Disclosure and Privilege, Tendency and Coincidence Evidence.

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Issues covered include: Statutory unconscionable conduct, Indemnities, Contract drafting, Incorporation of Contractual Terms, case law, Jeffrey Goldberger, Special Counsel, Norton Rose Fulbright.

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Issues covered include: Proposed Acquisition Notice, Powers of resumption, Assessments, Instructing Experts and Maximising Expert Evidence, Land valuation assessment and methods, partial acquistion, business valuation and compensation.

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Issues covered include: Phoenix business activities, tax case update, historical loans, unpaid present entitlements, small business restructuring, practical tax solutions for small business

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Issues covered include: wealth accumulation, property tax, insurance payment, cryptocurrency, client's marriage, separations, family and accounting, succession and estate plannning

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Issues covered include: intent, purpose, context and structure, practical problem solving, judicial review, repeal of statute

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Analyse decision making and reason writing and then work through an in depth, interactive workshop where the presenters will examine, dissect and reconstruct a decision in this unique, can’t-miss workshop.

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Issues covered include: 'Ultimate Consumer' test, heads of agreement, guarantees, assignment, special tenancy arragement, lease documents interpretation, breaches of lease, termination

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Facing family law issues in your school? We have a step by step guide to guide you. Dealing with child safety risks? We’re offering real world guidance from the legal, law enforcement and principal perspectives. Want all your questions answered? Our interactive panels are tailor made for you. And that’s just the start of what you’ll gain from this unique, can’t miss event.

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Issues covered include: capacity, unconscionable conduct, sexual issues, privacy, data security, convergence and seniors living

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Issues covered include: three way examination, inspections, defaults and penalties, case law

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Issues covered include: Trademarks, patents, parallel imports, protection of IP in China, policy register for IP Australia, patent remedies, patent drafting,

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Issues covered include: terrorism offences in Australia, prosecuting home grown terror plots, trends in terrorism, human exploitation

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Keep yourself updated on the psychology and the legal trends in psychological and psychiatric injury claims, including bystander PTSD claims. With claims on the rise, understanding both the medicine and the law is essential for all practitioners working in this area. Straddling the medical and legal worlds, this seminar offers a better understanding of how medical professions form their assessments and evaluate claims, and you will gain an update on the Work Accident and TAC claims.

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Issues covered include: third parties in family law disputes, problem solving, property settlements, family violence amendments, alternate dispute resolution

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Issues covered include: serving of notices in different types of probate proceedings, digital assets and the afterlife, probate litigation

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Issues covered include: Parents, legal disasters, Privacy law, mental and physical health of staff, misconduct, disability and discrimination obligations, race, sex and gender identity, children with physical and learning disabilities

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