10 Points on a Saturday

213N23: Sure it’s a Saturday, but once you are done, you really are well and truly done. This day will be time well spent and won’t cut into your work week. Take the plunge, wear what you like, come and hear the latest issues you need to catch up on, and get it all done in one fell swoop.

Description

Attend the full day and earn 10 CPD units including:
6.5 units in Substantive Law
1 unit in Ethics & Professional Responsibility
1 unit in Practice Management & Business Skills
1.5 units in Professional Skills

This program is based on NSW legislation

Session 1

Family Law and Wills and Estates Update

Chair: Geoffry Underwood, Barrister, Sixth Floor Selbourne Wentworth Chambers

Professional Skills
7.30am to 8.15am Family Provision Practice and Procedure: How to Commence a Family Provision Claim

  • Institution of proceedings
  • Plaintiff’s affidavit
  • Defendant’s affidavit
  • Settlement and orders

Presented by John Armfield, Barrister, Second Floor Wentworth Chambers; Preeminent Wills & Estates Litigation Junior Counsel, Doyle’s Guide 2020

8.15am to 9.00am Estate Practice: Recent Cases and the Takeaways

Examine recent published judgments of particular significance for practitioners involved in all types of wills and estates matters and examine what are the important takeaways for your practice from these decisions.
Presented by Michelle Painter SC, Nine Selborne Chambers; Recommended Wills & Estates Litigation Senior Counsel, Doyle’s Guide 2021

9.00am to 9.45am Analysis of Recent Family Law and Property Division Cases

Gain a valuable update of the most recent, significant cases and trends from the Family Court of Australia and Federal Circuit Court on property and financial settlements and relevant legislative amendments.
Presented by Neil Jackson, Barrister, Frederick Jordan Chambers

9.45am to 10.00am Morning Tea

Session 2

CPD Compulsory Units for All Lawyers

Chair: Lara Wentworth, former Partner, Madison Marcus and Wellness and Performance Coach

Professional Skills
10.00am to 11.00am Mediation Advocacy: Achieving Success

  • When to mediate?
  • Preparing and strategies for mediation
  • Negotiation: key insights on how to be an effective negotiator   
  • Dealing with difficult clients or opposing lawyer  
  • Choice of mediator   
  • When to consider briefing counsel
  • Documenting the settlement

Presented by Anthony Lo Surdo SC, FCIArb, Barrister, Independent Arbitrator, Advanced Mediator, 12 Wentworth Selborne Chambers, Sydney; Lonsdale Chambers, Melbourne; Outer Temple Chambers, London; Abu Dhabi, Dubai

Ethics & Professional Responsibility
11.00am to 12.00pm Claims of Unethical Legal Practice Management

An employed solicitor working remotely from home fails to record a hearing date & leaves the firm. Months later, while in isolation awaiting the results of your COVID-19 test, you get a telephone call from a Judge’s Associate asking why nobody is in court.

  • How will you avoid a personal costs order for any adjournment?
  • How will you respond to a formal disciplinary complaint about your failure to ensure representation?
  • How will you manage the client engagement?

Consider case law and materials covering advanced aspects of legal ethics and professional responsibility. You will leave this seminar understanding the regulations and standards, along with practical advice about systems and record keeping enabling you to support your ethical and professional responsibility obligations and, should the need arise, marshal as evidence in your defence or in mitigation of any penalty.
Presented by Philippe Doyle Gray, Barrister, 8 Wentworth Chambers

Practice Management & Business Skills
12.00pm to 1.00pm Ensuring Your Wellbeing and Mental Health of your Staff in Challenging Times

  • Mental health in the legal industry: statistics and prevalence
  • Understanding the difference between stress and a mental health condition
  • Burnout: early warning signs and impact on productivity
  • Exposure to distressing content: risks and protective factors
  • How to nurture and maintain effective communication skills
  • Mental health strategy: What does this look like?

Presented by Emma Howard, Psychologist and National Mental Health Manager, Clayton Utz

1.00pm to 1.30pm Lunch

Session 3

Property and Employment Law Roundup

Chair: Diane Skapinker, Partner, Ashurst; Accredited Specialist in Property Law; Recommended, Property & Real Estate Lawyers, Doyle’s Guide 2020

1.30pm to 2.20pm Property Law Review: Developments Over the Last 12 Months

  • Strata law update
  • Leasing update
  • Conveyancing update

Presented by Greg Sirtes SC, 12 Wentworth Selborne Chambers

2.20pm to 3.10pm Employment Law: Advising Employers and Employees

  • Dealing with workplace disputes
  • Advising best practice for employers
  • Case studies addressing the issues in unfair dismissal, adverse action, redundancy, workplace conflict, industrial disputes

Presented by Ben Motro, Partner, Piper Alderman

3.10pm to 3.25pm Afternoon Tea

Session 4

Commercial Update – Insolvency, Consumer Law and Contracts

Chair: Andy Munro, Barrister, Wardell Chambers

3.25pm to 4.10pm Bankruptcy and Insolvency Roundup for All Practitioners

Dive into some of the most significant issues arising in bankruptcy and insolvency matters and understand how to apply their lessons to your matters.
Presented by Colin Brown, Partner, O’Neill Partners

4.10pm to 5.00pm Consumer and Competition Law Update

  • ACCC compliance and enforcement priorities for 2021 including:
    • Misleading or deceptive conduct: websites, social media, digital advertising (including testimonials)
    • Statutory consumer guarantees, unfair contract terms and relationship with misleading or deceptive conduct
  • Review of significant cases and legislative developments in competition and consumer law in the past year (together with a refresher on the related provisions of the Competition and Consumer provisions)

Presented by Ayman Guirguis, Partner, K&L Gates; Best Lawyers 2021, Competition Law

5.00pm to 5.45pm IP Roadmap for Your Client’s Business

  • Protecting IP assets: primer and refresher
  • Brands and trade marks, slogans and tag lines, names: what is registrable and how to maximise value in a trade mark portfolio
  • Bringing it all together: other forms of IP, and common IP FAQs
  • Developing an IP strategy and IP watch outs when selling a business

Presented by Alison Jones, Special Counsel, Corrs Chambers Westgarth

5.45pm to 6.30pm Latest Issues on Contracts in Current Times

  • Force majeure clauses
  • Frustration
  • Termination for cause and convenience
  • Dispute resolution clauses
  • Damages and the latest from the High Court

Presented by David Jury, Partner, HWL Ebsworth

6.30pm Close

Presenters

Geoffry Underwood
Geoffry Underwood is a barrister practising from Sixth Floor, Selborne Wentworth Chambers, 174 Phillip Street Sydney. He practises principally in the area of Equity, Estate and Family Provision advising and litigation. He has been involved in Estate Litigation on a regular basis for over 20 years. He has many interests outside the law including family, travel, golf and classical music.

Neil Jackson
As a family law specialist, Neil has particular expertise in property and child-related disputes. The depth of his practice also extends to expert knowledge in the law relating to de facto relationships. Neil maintains a strong advisory practice and regularly appears in the Family Court of Australia, Family Circuit Court and in appellate courts for a broad range of clients, including the Independent Children’s Lawyer. The breadth of his practice has also seen him appear in Family Law Court Registries outside Sydney, including Townsville, Brisbane, Parramatta, Newcastle, Canberra and interstate, such as Melbourne and Perth. He has been appointed Mediator of the Supreme Court of New South Wales and has participated in hundreds of mediations and conciliation conferences throughout his legal career.

Michelle Painter SC
Michelle Painter SC practices primarily in commercial law, including all manner of commercial disputes, equity and trusts, family provision and probate. She has been listed in Doyle’s Guide as a Recommended or Leading Senior Counsel in Wills and Estate Litigation in every year since 2015. She regularly appears in proceedings concerning large estates, usually but not exclusively, for the executors. Michelle commenced practice as a barrister in 1998 and took silk in 2013.

John Armfield
John specialises in estate litigation. He has been listed in Doyle’s Guide as a pre-eminent junior counsel in Wills and Estates Litigation in 2019, 2018, 2017, and 2015. He regularly acts as a mediator with respect to family provision claims. Regularly advising and appearing for plaintiffs and estates in relation to matters in the Equity Division of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, John has extensive experience also representing clients at mediations and informal settlement conferences. His practice has a strong emphasis on probate, family provision applications and will construction. He has also appeared in applications seeking a review of orders allowing commission to executors.

Lara Wentworth
Lara Wentworth is a former Partner at Madison Marcus Law Firm and until recently led the firm's Family Law Division & Wills & Estate Planning Division. She has over 17 years' experience practicing law. Over more recent times Lara has embarked on and established a coaching and training practice where she mentors, coaches and trains members of the legal profession. She is a certified Master Practitioner in Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP). Lara is also currently completing international coaching certification with the International Coaching Federation (ICF) due to be completed 2020. Lara’s coaching and training is aimed at helping people in the legal profession to enhance their leadership skills and improve their mental health so they can be high performing and happy humans.

Anthony Lo Surdo SC
Anthony Lo Surdo SC, FCIArb, was called to the Bar in 1996, having previously practiced as a solicitor since his admission as a legal practitioner in 1987. He was appointed as Senior Counsel in 2011.  He practices from 12 Wentworth Selborne Chambers, Sydney, Lonsdale Chambers, Melbourne and Outer Temple Chambers, England and UAE. Anthony specialises in banking, contract, commercial, corporations, equity, professional indemnity, insurance, insolvency, property and sports law.  He is described in Doyles Guide to the Australian Legal Profession in 2015-2020 as one of the country’s leading insolvency and reconstruction Silks. He is accredited as a mediator under the National Mediation Accreditation System and as an Advanced Mediator by Resolution Institute. He is also certified by the International Mediation Institute and the Singapore International Mediation Institute. He has been rated by Doyles Guide in 2017-2020 as a leading mediator in NSW. Anthony is also accredited as a Grade 1 Arbitrator and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, of Resolution Institute and of the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration. Doyles Guide described him in 2019 and 2020 as one of the country’s leading arbitration Senior Counsel.

Philippe Doyle Gray
I am a barrister with over 20 years' legal experience who loves working in litigation and dispute resolution. I pride myself on being a lawyer's lawyer. Throughout my career, I have been entrusted by my colleagues to guide, advise, and represent them and their families.
From billionaires to ordinary mums and dads, my clients have been business people, insurance companies, publishers, banks, property developers, doctors, building and construction professionals, multinational corporations, government bodies and public institutions. Pro bono work is a hallmark of a professional and at any one moment in time, amongst my current crop of cases, I am usually representing somebody referred by the Courts for free legal assistance.

Emma Howard
Emma Howard is the National Mental Health Manager at Clayton Utz. Emma provides clinical expertise and direction in the development of educational programs, policies and procedures relating to mental health and wellbeing at the firm. As a Senior Consultant Psychologist, Emma has provided psychological consultancy, including training on mental health, personal resilience, leadership and organisational change. Emma has extensive experience in providing counselling, coaching, and psychological rehabilitation services from graduates to executives.
Emma completed a BA (Psychology) followed by Post Graduate Diplomas in Psychology and Science (Honours). Emma completed her Post Graduate Diploma in Professional Psychological Practice and went on to complete a Masters in Human Resources and Industrial Relations at the University of Sydney in June 2016.

Diane Skapinker
Diane Skapinker is a partner in the Ashurst real estate group where she specialises in property developments, strata and community titling, acquisitions, disposals, leasing and the property aspects of telecommunications and infrastructure projects. Diane was formerly an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Sydney lecturing in Real Property, Conveyancing and Equity and is a member of the NSW Law Society’s Property Law Committee and its subcommittee responsible for drafting the NSW standard form contract for the sale and purchase of land. Diane is recognised as a real estate lawyer by Chambers Asia-Pacific, Doyle's Guide and Best Lawyers Australia.

Greg Sirtes SC
Gregory Sirtes practices on the 12th Floor of Wentworth & Selborne Chambers. He was called to the Bar in 1992 having practiced before then as a solicitor for 2 years. His main areas of practice are real property, construction, commercial/equity, insurance, wills & probate and professional negligence. He has been listed in Doyle’s Guide as a Leading Construction Counsel (2018, 2019, 2020) and Leading Commercial Litigation Counsel (2017). He has been a member of the Navy Reserve since 2009 and was appointed in 2018 as a Judge Advocate/Defence Force Magistrate of the Australian Defence Force.

Ben Motro
Ben Motro is a Partner in our Sydney office. He is a member of the firm's Employment Relations team. Ben's primary area of expertise is in employment law and industrial relations. Ben provides advice to clients in all areas of employment law, industrial relations and workplace health and safety, and in a variety of industries, including the IT, retail, manufacturing, food & beverage, and pharmaceutical industries. Ben has had significant experience with advising on and preparing employment contracts, enterprise agreements, deeds of release and employer policies. He also assists clients in litigious matters, and has appeared before the Fair Work Commission in unfair dismissal and general protections matters, industrial action disputes, as well as applications for enterprise agreement approvals and transfers of business matters.

Andy Munro
With a broad range of experience in civil, commercial and consumer litigation, Andrew was called to the Bar following many years of practising as a solicitor in Sydney and Coffs Harbour.  Possessing extensive experience in superior and inferior Courts, including appellate Courts, as well as all levels of Tribunals, Andrew accepts briefs to appear in all Australian Courts and Tribunals, including regional and remote locations across New South Wales and interstate. His client base typically consists of both individuals and corporations. The broad suite of matters in which he is briefed includes commercial and general litigation, corporations, trade practices and consumer law, trusts, estate litigation, probate and wills disputes, franchising, equity, professional negligence, rural and farming litigation, building disputes, nuisance, small claims and debt recovery.

Colin Brown
Colin specialises in the areas of insolvency and reconstruction and commercial litigation. A member of the Australian Restructuring Insolvency and Turnaround Association (ARITA), Colin acts for secured and unsecured creditors, commercial entities, administrators, liquidators, bankruptcy trustees and other insolvency practitioners across a range of industry sectors, as well as advising individuals, boards and company directors on all aspects of insolvency law. Colin also acts for private and corporate clients involved in a broad range of commercial disputes, particularly in respect of contractual and commercial transaction, resolving a number of large and complex commercial disputes for the firm’s clients. 

Ayman Guirguis
Ayman Guirguis advises clients on all aspects of antitrust/competition law as well as consumer law. Ayman has a wealth of experience advising clients on merger clearance, joint ventures and on supply chain arrangements between suppliers and customers. Ayman regularly advises on, and responds to, regulatory investigations by the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) alleging cartel conduct (price fixing, market sharing or bid rigging), including making immunity and leniency applications, competitor interactions at Industry Associations, as well as on other anti-competitive allegations such as misuse of market power, exclusivities, including defending litigation commenced by the ACCC.

Alison Jones
Alison Jones is a Special Counsel in the intellectual property practice of Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Australia’s leading independent law firm. Alison specialises in intellectual property and consumer protection law, and advises clients across all business sectors on a range of IP, regulatory and related areas including IP strategy, advising on commercial arrangements of various kinds and contract drafting, advertising and marketing, competition and consumer law issues, IP enforcement, and commercial regulatory (including food law, cosmetics, life sciences and therapeutic goods regulation, product liability risk and recall, privacy and data protection).  Alison's experience in this area also includes secondments at leading companies in IP-driven sectors, including fast moving consumer goods and life sciences.

David Jury
David has practised in building and construction industry for 25years and has particular expertise in adjoining land owner issues including proceedings under section 88K of the Conveyancing Act. David’s clients include, Contractors, Developers and specialist subcontractors. David provides advice on tendering, project delivery, contract administration and dispute resolution including processes under the Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act.

Venue

The Grace Hotel
77 York St
Sydney 2000
NSW
Australia

Map of The Grace Hotel

Plaza Parking is located beneath the hotel with its entrance on Clarence Street. There are limited car spaces and they are available on a first-in basis. Plaza Parking attendants can provide directions to alternative parking facilities nearby. Day rate  (Single Entry) for conference guests only and to be paid at Plaza Parking: $45.00 per car, per day. (Conference guest tickets must be validated at conference concierge on level 2). Other nearby parking is located on Kent Street and York Street.
 
Wynyard Station - Take the York Street exit. Head south on York St toward Erskine St. Turn right and continue onto York Street for 300 metres. At that point you will arrive at The Grace Sydney.

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Issues covered include: Mining Titles Validation Bill, Forrest v Wilson, ealth and safety obligations, administrative decisions in the resources sector, compensation under Native Title Act

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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: 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: 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: 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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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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