10 Points in One Day Parramatta 2021
212P01: In its 8th year, the Parramatta 10 Points in One Day Program offers you insights from the industry’s front-line practitioners. You don’t have to travel to the CBD to gain updates in all the current topics and achieve your compulsory CPD units. Attend the full program or choose only the sessions most relevant to your practice.
Description
Attend for the full day and earn 10 CPD units including:
7 units in Substantive Law
1 unit in Ethics & Professional Responsibility
1 unit in Practice Management & Business Skills
1 unit in Professional Skills
This program is based on NSW legislation
Session 1
Stream A: Property Law Update and Will Drafting
Chair: Joseph Grassi, Director, Joseph Grassi and Associates
7.30am to 8.30am Recent Strata Title Law Update
Recent strata title law decisions of the Tribunal, Appeal Panel and Supreme Court.
Presented by Jane Crittenden, Lawyer, Jane Crittenden Lawyers
8.30am to 9.30am Tenancy and Leasing Update in the Aftermath of COVID-19
- Retail and other Commercial Leases National Cabinet Mandatory Code of Conduct
- (COVID-19) Regulation 2020 (NSW)
- Case law on the COVID-19 regulation including: Sneakerboy Retail Pty Ltd trading as Sneakerboy v Georges Properties Pty Ltd [2020] NSWSC 996 and Sneakerboy Retail Pty Ltd trading as Sneakerboy v Georges Properties Pty Ltd (No 2) [2020] NSWSC 1141
Presented by Dr Stephen Pallavicini, Partner, Eakin McCaffery Cox
9.30am to 10.30am Will Drafting Fundamentals for All Lawyers
- Tricks and traps in estate planning
- Taking effective instructions
- Identifying estate and non-estate assets
- Professional obligations in estate planning
Presented by Katelin Whitley, Principal, Bestic Law
Attend the above session and earn 3 CPD units in Substantive Law
Stream B: Family Law and Family Provision Claims Roundup
Chair: Shanna Mahony, Barrister, Lachlan Macquarie Chambers
7.30am to 8.30am Dispute Resolution in Family Law
- Family law mediation
- Conciliation conferences
- Family law arbitration
- Family law settlement service
Presented by Lisa Hamilton, Barrister, Lachlan Macquarie Chambers
8.30am to 9.30am Family Law Update
- The impact of COVID-19 on family law
- The stats regarding domestic violence
- Applications: impact of lockdown
- The video/audio link future for family law
- Will it save costs?
- Does it speed up lists? Help victims feel safer?
- Using the links to your best advantage in family law
- Cases on testing the Law under COVID-19 restrictions
Presented by Shanna Mahony, Barrister, Lachlan Macquarie Chambers
Prepared by Robyn Druitt, Barrister, Lachlan Macquarie Chambers
9.30am to 10.30am A Guide to Family Provision Claims
- The statutory framework for family provision claims
- Persons eligible to apply for a family provision order
- Broad principles arising from significant cases
- Considerations relevant to specific categories of eligible persons
- Discussion of recent cases
- Explaining family provision law to applicants and beneficiaries
Presented by John Clifton, Barrister, Edmund Barton Chambers
Attend the above session and earn 3 CPD units in Substantive Law
Session 2
CPD Compulsory Units for All Lawyers
Chair: Elizabeth Picker, Barrister, Edmund Barton Chambers
Practice Management and Business Skills
10.45am to 11.45am Communicating with Clients and Staff in Difficult Times: An Interactive Session
- Understanding the legal risks inherent to stressed/burnt out staff
- Best practice approaches to managing vulnerable staff
- Strategies to prevent burnout
- How to have a conversation with someone experiencing extreme stress/burnout
- Practical case study
Presented by Cilla Robinson, Partner, Clayton Utz and Kim Ambor, Psychologist
Ethics & Professional Responsibility
11.45am to 12.45pm Morality and the Law: What is Ethics in the Legal Profession?
Inside one generation there have been two extraordinary developments, the birth of the online age and the exponential growth of regulatory law.
- How have our longstanding ethical codes adapted to the online world?
- Where are we headed?
- How have our longstanding ethical codes adapted to a regulatory environment?
- What are the standards regulators now expect?
Presented by David Ash, Barrister, Frederick Jordan Chambers
Professional Skills
12.45pm to 1.45pm A Guide to Effective Alternative Dispute Resolution for All Lawyers
Work through tips and strategies towards achieving a successful outcome for your client through mediation, arbitration, negotiation, early neutral evaluation and collaborative law.
- Understanding your ADR options and identifying the best one for your client
- Communicating with your client, managing their expectations, and preparing them for ADR
- Assess your own negotiating style
- Prepare your client for ADR by helping them to identify potential sources of conflict
- Promote healthy communication channels with your client
- Set realistic expectations for your client
Presented by Elizabeth Picker, Barrister, Edmund Barton Chambers
Attend and earn 3 CPD units including:
1 unit in Ethics & Professional Responsibility
1 unit in Practice Management & Business Skills
1 unit in Professional Skills
Session 3
Stream A: Commercial Law Roundup
Chair: Suzie Boulous, Partner, Brown Wright Stein Lawyers
2.15pm to 3.15pm Asset Protection Strategies in a COVID-19 World: Keep Your Hands off my Assets!
- Impact of insolvency & bankruptcy on assets
- Asset protection strategies intended to defeat the rights of creditors
- How a liquidator or trustee can claw back assets
- The mostly safe haven that is superannuation
- The courts’ responses to attacks on potentially insolvent structures
Presented by Colin Brown, Partner, O’Neill Partners
Prepared by Michael Bennett, Barrister, Thirteen Wentworth Selborne Chambers
3.15pm to 4.15pm An Introduction to Intellectual Property for your Practice
- The importance and value of IP
- How to identify and protect IP
- Key requirements for commercialising IP
- International and online considerations
Presented by Wen Wu, Barrister, Tenth Floor St James Hall Chambers
4.15pm to 4.30pm Afternoon Tea
4.30pm to 5.30pm Tax Considerations in Business Sales and Acquisitions
- Tax implications of business structures
- Changes to rules on tax for small businesses
- GST and transfer duties
- Selling as ‘Going Concern’: Is a GST exemption applicable?
Presented by Adrian Bailey, Principal, Cleary Hoare Solicitors
5.30pm to 6.30pm Data Breaches: Advising Your Clients
- Key features of the mandatory data breach notification framework
- How to identify key issues, stakeholders and potential pitfalls
- Practical tips for assessing whether or not there has been a serious breach
Managing stakeholder communication: being prepared and matters to consider
Presented by Patrick Fair, Partner, Patrick Fair and Associates
Attend the above session and earn 4 CPD units in Substantive Law
Stream B: Litigation Update
Chair: Phillip Brophy, Senior Commercial Lawyer, Matthews Folbigg Lawyers
2.15pm to 3.15pm Employment Law: The Urgent Concerns
- Employment law litigation, emerging trends
- Urgent interlocutory applications, how to proceed with speed in order to protect confidential information
- Casuals, worth the risk?
Presented by Sebastian McIntosh, Barrister, 13 Wentworth Chambers
3.15pm to 4.15pm Contract Termination Disputes
- Express contractual right vs common law termination
- Grounds for termination at common law
- Affirmation, election and delay
- Termination vs rescission
- Damages and other remedies after termination or rescission
- What if the termination is not justified?
- Some practical tips for effective exercise of termination rights
Presented by Elizabeth Rusiti, Barrister, Frederick Jordan Chambers
4.15pm to 4.30pm Afternoon Tea
4.30pm to 5.30pm Litigation Practice and Skills Update
- Fundamentals of drafting pleadings
- Dealing with defective pleadings: Assist the other side or seek a strike out?
- Preparing affidavits and basic principles of admissibility
Presented by Andrew Bailey, Barrister, Frederick Jordan Chambers
5.30pm to 6.30pm Latest Developments & Trends in Personal Injury and Medical Negligence Cases
Presented by Simon Grey, Barrister, Maurice Byers Chambers
Attend the above session and earn 4 CPD units in Substantive Law
Presenters
Joseph Grassi
Joseph Grassi was admitted to practice as a solicitor in 1977 and is an Accredited Specialist in Property Law, a Notary Public and holds a Master of Laws degree. He provides legal advice to private and corporate clients in relation to residential, commercial and industrial sub-divisions and strata developments. He also provides advice on environment, planning and assessment, joint ventures and financial structures of developments, asset protection strategies including Estate Planning and Administration. He is a board member of the Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District and the chair of its Finance and Performance Committee.
Dr Stephen Pallavicini
Dr. Stephen Pallavicini, a partner in Eakin McCaffery Cox property team, has extensive experience in property law. Previous experience roles include positions as Senior Legal Counsel, Commercial Property at Stockland and Senior Property Lawyer, Woolworths Group Limited. Stephen is an Accredited Property Specialist. He has been a member of the Law Society’s Property Law Committee since 2006, the Law Society’s Specialist Accreditation Property Law Committee since 2009 and is a member of the Law Society’s Ethics Committee and former member of the In-house Corporate Lawyer’s Committee.
Katelin Whitley
Katelin Whitley is the principal of Bestic Law located in Sydney and the Hunter Valley and practices primarily in succession and trust matters. She was admitted to practice in 2001 and was recognised by the NSW Law Society as an Accredited Wills and Estates Specialist in 2011. She has considerable experience advising and acting on contested estate litigation including lack of testamentary capacity and undue influence cases, family provision claims, construction of will litigation, and application of the Forfeiture Act. Katelin has represented estates, applicants, and beneficiaries. She works on both simple and high level estate planning and acts on estate administrations including for large and complex estates.
Shanna Mahony
Shanna Mahony is a member of the NSW Bar practicing at Lachlan Macquarie Chambers specialising in family law and care and protection matters. Prior to coming to the Bar she was the Director of Mahony Family Lawyers, a local Parramatta firm specialising in Family Law, Care and Protection and Wills and Estates. Shanna is an Accredited Specialist in Family Law and has extensive experience in both litigation practice and non litigious matters.
John Clifton
John Clifton came to the Bar in 2004. Prior to that he worked in litigation at small and medium firms since his admission as a solicitor in 1994, including 2 years in the United Kingdom. John has worked on a wide variety of matters in his career, but in recent years his practice has consisted mainly of commercial litigation arising from contractual disputes. He also practises in Wills and Estates litigation including Family Provision claims and has a particular interest in that area.
Lisa Hamilton
Lisa Hamilton is a Barrister practising at Lachlan Macquarie Chambers in Parramatta, primarily in Family Law. She is currently undertaking a Masters of Applied Laws with a double major in Family Law and Family Dispute Resolution, and has completed a graduate diploma in Family Dispute Resolution. Before coming to the bar in 2009, Lisa practised as a solicitor in a city insurance firm, and then as the principal solicitor at a Community Legal Centre which focused on conducting litigation for young people and small business people. She studied law at the University of Technology, Sydney, as well as international studies, which took her to Germany for a year studying law and languages there.
Cilla Robinson
Cilla Robinson has over 18 years' experience as an employment lawyer, specialising in discrimination and industrial relations, but works with her clients on all aspects of the employee life cycle. She has deep expertise in workforce transformation and industrial strategy, frequently helping clients during volatile and unpredictable times to best leverage growth and opportunities for enacting people and business objectives. Cilla often helps clients navigate the complexity of dealing with ill and injured employees, and in particular the challenges inherent within organisations with low levels of psychosocial safety or high incidents of staff with mental illness or mental health problems is a focus of her practice.
Kim Ambor
Kim Ambor is a highly experienced and registered Organisational Psychologist and Mental Health Counsellor with more than 20 years’ experience consulting to and working within large public and private organisations. Kim’s expertise lies in Facilitation, Counselling, Executive Coaching, Talent Management and Outplacement. Kim has worked in in-house roles which included Talent Management, Capability, HR and Training, as well as spending a decade in management consulting. Kim is an experienced and dynamic facilitator and has designed and delivered hundreds of training programs for a multitude of clients and across various countries.
David Ash
David Ash is a mediator, arbitrator and barrister practising from Frederick Jordan Chambers in Sydney. Admitted as a barrister in NSW in 1998, David has maintained a broad civil practice. He has regularly advised and appeared in state and federal Courts and statutory tribunals including courts of appeal and the High Court of Australia. He is a part-time general member of the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal. David is approved by BarADR as an arbitrator and as a mediator.
Elizabeth Picker
Among her qualifications, Elizabeth holds a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) and a mediation diploma from Bond University. She is also an Accredited Mediator - Mediation and Dispute Resolution Specialist and an Arbitrator. In previous roles, she has worked as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of Queensland (1994-1999), Solicitor of the High Court of Australia (1996-, 2007), Solicitor of the Supreme Court of NSW (2000-2007) and Barrister of the Supreme Court of NSW 2007 (to date). Her area of practice at the Bar is principally in the Family Law jurisdiction in both financial (property and maintenance) and parenting (child) matters.
Paul Sansom SC
Paul has had a wealth of experience both within the Family Law Jurisdiction where he now practices exclusively (at trial and appellate level) and previously where he practiced widely in other areas such as crime, common law, equity, commercial, workers’ compensation and conveyancing, as a Solicitor from 1983 in both Sole Practice and as a Family Law Partner in a large suburban firm. Paul was called to the Bar in 1993. Paul has for many years been a regular presenter of papers at various seminars and a co-author of the College of Law’ Advocacy syllabus within the Masters of Law course.
Phillip Brophy
Phillip’s expertise is in commercial law. He is a Law Society Accredited Specialist in Business Law and advises many longstanding corporate and individual clients on a wide variety of commercial and corporate governance matters across many industry sectors. He also advises clients on estate planning and business succession and strives to provide timely and pragmatic advice. Phillip is actively involved in the community and is a past President of the Rotary Club of Parramatta City and he is also a committee member of another smaller charity.
Sebastian McIntosh
Sebastian is a barrister at Thirteen Wentworth. He specialises in employment, industrial and work health and safety law.
Wen Wu
Wen practises in intellectual property (including copyright, patents and trademarks) and related areas. He also has a developing practice in defamation law. Before coming to the Bar, Wen practised as a solicitor for over 7 years in the IP groups of two leading national firms and a specialist IP firm. He has had substantial experience as a solicitor in patents and trade mark disputes, including in the Federal Court and IP Australia. Wen holds a Master of Intellectual Property Law from the University of Melbourne, where he received the Davies Collison Cave award for copyright law. He graduated with Honours in law from the University of New South Wales.
Patrick Fair
Patrick Fair is a partner in the Sydney office of Baker & McKenzie where he advises on information technology and telecommunications law. He is recognised for his extensive experience in privacy law, online content regulation, telecommunications regulation and broadcasting law.
Andrew Bailey
Andrew Bailey commenced practice at the Bar in August 2014 after 12 years in practice as a solicitor: initially in Queensland, but principally in New South Wales since 2003, with responsibility for the conduct of matters in Victoria. Andrew accepts briefs in most areas of practice: particularly administrative law, bankruptcy and insolvency, commercial, construction, and equity. In his time as a solicitor, he has had some familiarity with costs litigation on behalf of firms he has worked for. This has developed into a discrete area of Andrew's practice at the Bar. Having an undergraduate degree in psychology, Andrew maintains an academic interest in psychiatric injury as a discrete legal topic.
Elizabeth Rusiti
Elizabeth Rusiti was a solicitor for 20 years before coming to the Bar. During the first half of her career, she worked for a mid-tier Sydney firm in commercial litigation, specialising in admiralty, shipping and international trade disputes. Subsequently, Elizabeth gained considerable experience at boutique family law firms, developing a reputation as a senior practitioner in that field, representing clients in all aspects of family law disputes. Her focus in family law matters is on assisting clients to resolve their disputes, wherever possible. After a break from legal practice, Elizabeth came to the Bar and joined Frederick Jordan Chambers in 2020.
Adrian Bailey
Adrian Bailey joined Cleary Hoare in 2007 and became a Principal on 1 July 2011. Adrian's strong investigative background allows him to quickly identify the core issues and objectives for clients and efficiently provide solutions. His experience in dealing with people from all walks of life allows him to easily relate to all manner of clients. During his time at Cleary Hoare, Adrian has refined his knowledge and experience in taxation law, estate planning, succession planning, structuring and commercial law. Adrian has also completed his Masters of Taxation and is a Chartered Tax Adviser with the Tax Institute.
Simon Grey
Simon was called to the bar in May 2019 and has a keen interest and growing practice in tort cases, particularly medical negligence, public liability and institutional abuse claims, as well as intentional torts. At the bar he has acted for plaintiffs and defendants including individuals, the Commonwealth and Police. Simon started his legal career at Carroll & O’Dea Lawyers, primarily acting for plaintiffs in personal injury cases and then spent about 4 years acting at Crown panel firms for NSW Health and NSW Police in their torts teams. He also worked in a commercial litigation team at Clifford Chance in London, one of the world’s largest firms.
Venue
PARKROYAL Parramatta
Level 1, 30 Phillip Street
Parramatta 2150
NSW
Australia
DRIVING There is parking at the Hotel. Delegates can park at the basement of the hotel and the tickets will need to be validate at reception. It is $15 per day for conference delegates. Parking is not included in the registration fee and fee is subject to change.
TRAINS A 10-minute walk from our Parramatta hotel, explore the vast network of trains for an alternate mode of transport on your unqiue holiday. Please visit www.sydneytrains.info or www.131500.com.au for more information.
FERRIES Head to the nearby Rivercat Ferry terminal, where hotspots such as Parramatta Centre and Sydney's Central Business District are just a short ferry ride away.