10 Points in One Day

213S01: Featuring 12 practical sessions & 15 leading experts this is the only program you need. Gain all your CPD points in one go while gaining the latest updates, strategies & skills across a wide range of areas that you come across in your daily files.

Description

Attend and earn 10 CPD units including:
6.5 units in Substantive Law
1 unit in Practical Legal Ethics
1 unit in Practice Management or Business Skills
1.5 units in Professional Skills

This program is based on SA legislation

Session 1

Property and Commercial Law Roundup

Chair: Stephen Lendrum, Partner, Dentons; Leading Property & Real Estate Lawyer, Doyle’s Guide 2020

7.30am to 8.15am Contractual and Statutory Indemnities in the Insolvency Context: A Case Study

Explore the recent Federal Court decision in Adelaide Brighton Cement Ltd v Concrete Supply Pty Ltd (Subject to Deed of Company Arrangement) (No. 6) [2020] FCA 928 and the essential takeaways, including:

  • Overview of the indemnities that are typically available under statute and, where applicable, contract
  • Circumstances in which recourse to statutory and contractual indemnities may be denied
  • Key issues when advising clients in relation to indemnities

Presented by Sally Heidenreich, Barrister, Murray Chambers

8.15am to 9.00am Land Tax: Practical Implications for Lawyers

Recent amendments to SA Land Tax legislation place added burdens on every lawyer advising on transactions, structures, trusts or estates involving land assets. Government responses to the current economy create additional complexity as have some interpretations of the legislation chosen by the Commissioner of State Taxation.

Join this practical session on how the new rules operate in the real world including:

  • A review of the new legislation and its operation in relation to different entities
  • Implications for structuring land holdings and land developments
  • Implications for estate planning 
  • Accessing the principle place of residence land tax exemption
  • New reporting obligations on land acquisition
  • The concessions available and how to access them

Presented by Julie Van der Velde, Principal, VdV Legal; Recommended Tax Lawyer, Doyle’s Guide 2019; 2017 Taxation Institute Chartered SME Tax Adviser of the Year

9.00am to 9.45am Property Law Update: Legislative Changes, Critical Cases & Recent Trends

Examine recent cases, legislative developments and the key trends impacting property law, your practice and your clients.
Presented by Chris Kelly, Partner, Thomson Geer; Recommended Property & Real Estate Lawyer, Doyle’s Guide 2020

Professional Skills
9.45am to 10.30am Business Valuations in 2021 and Beyond

  • The 4 W's: Why, What, Who, When?
  • The valuation approach
  • Analytical forecasting
  • Deriving a valuation conclusion
  • Impact of COVID-19 on the Australian economy
  • Implications for business valuations
  • Is there any business goodwill?
  • Tricky issues: tips, traps and advice

Presented by Brendan Daw CA, Director, Daw Accounting and Advisory; Business Valuation Specialist CAANZ; Registered SMSF Auditor

10.30am to 10.45am Morning Tea 

Session 2

CPD Required Units for All Lawyers

Chair: Wendy Jones, Partner & Head of Office, Dentons; Leading Insolvency & Restructuring Lawyer and Commercial Litigation & Dispute Resolution Lawyer, Doyle’s Guide 2020

Practical Legal Ethics
10.45am to 11.45am Sexual Harassment and Bullying in the Profession Post #MeToo and Heydon

  • Examine the issues within the broader context of lack of equity and diversity and the experiences of women and safety within the society at large
  • What avenues do lawyers who are bullied and harassed have for complaint and investigation?
    • By other members of the profession including their own worksite (discussion on conduct rules and discrimination legislation)
    • By the judiciary
  • What can employers in the legal profession do to make the worksite safer for workers?
  • What do the member organisations need to do? Law societies and bar associations
  • What should we be teaching our students of law about the issue?
  • Where to from here?

Presented by Claire O’Connor SC, Villeneuve Smith Chambers; Recommended Family & Divorce Senior Counsel, Doyle’s Guide 2020

Practice Management or Business Skill
11.45am to 12.45pm The New Flexibility for the Employee

  • Working from home: navigating the changing landscape
  • The increasing impact of technology on working arrangements
  • The risks associated with alternative working arrangements and reduced personal interactions in the workplace
  • How employment lawyers can prepare for workplaces of the future

Presented by Simon Bourne, Solicitor, Bourne Lawyers; Preeminent Employment Lawyer, Doyle’s Guide 2020

Professional Skills
12.45pm to 1.45pm Affidavits & Taking Statements: Guidance for Litigators & Commercial Lawyers

  • Practical tips for eliciting statements from witnesses
  • How to draft an admissible, relevant, persuasive and effective affidavit
  • Perfecting your drafting style
  • Ethical and practical considerations
  • Avoiding common mistakes and pitfalls

Presented by Mark Douglas, Barrister, Murray Chambers; Recommended Wills & Estates Litigation Junior Counsel, Doyle’s Guide 2020

1.45pm to 2.15pm Lunch

Session 3

Family, Wills & Estates, Trusts & Workplace Law

Chair: Maurine Pyke QC, John Bray Chambers; Recommended Family & Divorce Senior Counsel, Doyle’s Guide 2020

2.15pm to 2.20pm Opening Comments from the Chair

2.20pm to 3.05pm Family Law: Cases and Developments

  • Case update of key parenting and property decisions
  • Overview of recent Court initiatives
  • Developments on the horizon

Presented by Jane Miller, Barrister, Elizabeth Evatt Chambers; Accredited Specialist in Family Law; Co-Chair, Law Society of South Australia Family Law Committee; Leading Family & Divorce Junior Counsel, Doyle’s Guide 2020

3.05pm to 3.50pm Family Provision Practice and Procedure: How to Commence a Family Provision Claim 

  • Procedural issues with commencing family provision claims in South Australia
    • Rules, time limits, giving notice of intention to claim, parties, pleadings or affidavits and their content, extensions of time, issues of distribution of the deceased’s estate
  • Categories of claimants, eligibility to make a claim, role of executor in the proceedings
  • Hearing and mediation of claims; methods of settling claims

Presented by Graham Edmonds-Wilson QC, Howard Zelling Chambers; Preeminent Wills & Estates Litigation Senior Counsel, Doyle’s Guide 2020

3.50pm to 4.05pm Afternoon Tea

4.05pm to 4.50pm Wills and Estates Case Update: Lessons from Recent Cases

Analyse recent cases, the key issues in dispute, the relevant outcomes, and the practical takeaways from each case.
Presented by Katarina Grenfell, Barrister, Murray Chambers

4.50pm to 5.35pm Modern Trustees Dealing with Actual or Perceived Conflicts of Interest and/or Duty

At general law it is said that there are only two proscriptive duties of a trustee: not to obtain any unauthorised benefit from the relationship and not to be in a position of conflict. A breach of either of these obligations requires the trustee to account for any profits and make good any losses. Recently the courts have had to consider the so-called ‘no conflicts rule’ and its application to executors and administrators of deceased estates where the estate is a potential beneficiary of a superannuation death benefit. This presentation will examine:

  • Recent ‘no conflict’ cases
  • The plight of the executor/administrator of the deceased estate
  • Vital takeaways to apply to your practice

Presented by Suzanne Mackenzie, Barrister, Bar Chambers

5.35pm to 6.20pm Workplace Law Update: Impact of New Laws & IR Reforms

  • Overview of proposed changes in the areas of:
    • Casuals and fixed term employees: Is there greater clarity and certainty about casual employment arrangements?
    • The effectiveness of the workplace relations compliance framework in areas including wage underpayments
    • Award simplification and enterprise agreements: What's changed?
  • What do the new laws look like and how will they work in practice?
  • Update on legislative changes and reforms impacting on the workplace
  • Case law update: cases of significance in employment law and WHS

Presented by Karl Luke, Partner, Thomson Geer; 2020 Adelaide Lawyer of the Year, Occupational Health & Safety Law, Best Lawyers; Leading Employment Lawyer and Recommended Workplace Health & Safety Lawyer, Doyle’s Guide 2020

6.20pm to 6.30pm Final Q&A and Closing Comments from the Chair

Venue

Hilton Adelaide
Level 1, 233 Victoria Square
Adelaide 5000
SA
Australia

Map of Hilton Adelaide

Parking

Due to COVID restrictions, Hilton Adelaide no longer offers valet parking service for the time being and there is no on-site parking available, however there are plenty of public carparks in the surrounding area for attendees to use.

Some of the closest and most popular carparks are the following:

  • Mill Street Auto Park (multi storey carpark)
  • Mill Street Wilson Parking (street parking)
  • Central Market UPark (multi storey carpark)

Directions

Hilton Adelaide is centrally located in Victoria Square on the corner of King William Street and Grote Street.

Getting around the city is easy with the free City Tram, taking you between South Terrace and The Entertainment Centre. Delegates can catch the city tram at Hilton Adelaide’s doorstep.

 

Presenters

Stephen Lendrum, Partner, Dentons
Stephen Lendrum is a partner in Dentons Real Estate Group. He is one of South Australia's most experienced commercial property practitioners with over 30 years' experience handling complex property and development work on landmark South Australian projects. Stephen acts for a number of local and national developers. He also acts for major national landlords in relation to the management and leasing of their shopping centres as well as for national tenants in relation to site leases and acquisitions. Stephen is a past Vice-President of the South Australian Division of the Property Council of Australia. He has lectured in a number of areas of commercial law at South Australian Universities.

Sally Heidenreich, Barrister, Murray Chambers
Sally accepts briefs in most areas of commercial and civil law, in both private and public contexts, and appears in all major State and Federal courts and tribunals. She is also available to provide opinions and associated advisory work. Pro bono briefs are accepted exclusively via referral through JusticeNet or under Rule 4.12 of the Federal Court Rules 2011. Prior to her legal career, Sally served as an Intelligence Officer for many years. Sally deployed a number of times to Iraq and Afghanistan, where she gained first-hand experience applying the Laws of Armed Conflict in the course of direct conflict with insurgent and other non-state actors.

Julie Van der Velde,Principal, VdV Legal
Julie Van der Velde is the principal of a specialised commercial law firm, VdV Legal and has degrees in Business and Law and a Masters of Taxation Law. With over 20 years' experience advising South Australian businesses her practice focuses on taxation and trust law with an emphasis on estate planning, taxation, tax planning, business structuring, business succession and intergenerational transfers. Julie is a registered Trust and Estate Practitioner, a Chartered Tax Advisor and a Fellow of CPA Australia. She has facilitated on the Law Society of South Australia's GDLP program, is a Recommended Wills, Estates and Succession Planning Lawyer, Doyle's Guide 2017 - 2019 and is the Taxation Institute's SME Chartered Tax Advisor for 2017.

Chris Kelly, Partner, Thomson Geer
Chris practises in a diverse range of property law, with a strong focus on leasing and major commercial acquisitions as well as renewable energy and infrastructure projects. Chris regularly acts for vendors, purchasers, landlords, tenants and developers. He has expertise in the preparation of numerous property documents with varying levels of complexity including contracts for sale, leases, easements, encumbrances, land divisions and caveats. He also regularly undertakes property related due diligence. Chris has been recognised by his peers as one of the Best Lawyers in Australia in the area of Leasing law (2020 and 2021).

Brendan Daw CA, Director, Daw Accounting and Advisory
Brendan Daw operates a niche Chartered Accounting practice specialising in business valuation, advisory and, expert witness work and self-managed super, as an extension to the standard accounting, tax and business, advisory services. Brendan has over 28 years' experience across multiple disciplines which culminates in an, enhanced understanding of the key drivers for small to medium business and the value of such businesses.,

Wendy Jones, Partner & Head of Office, Dentons
With her pragmatic approach, exacting technical skills and leadership ability, organisations including financial institutions, manufacturers, wine makers and retirement villages, benefit from Wendy's proven commercial litigation expertise. For over 20 years, Wendy has worked successfully and tenaciously on large and complex litigation matters, including some of Australia's largest audit negligence claims, as well as contract and product liability disputes, and trade practices issues. Her special interest in insolvency law means Wendy's advice is regularly sought on voluntary administrations, deeds of company arrangement, liquidators' recovery and investigation powers, secured creditor rights, priority issues and proofs of debt.

Claire O’Connor SC, Villeneuve Smith Chambers
Claire O'Connor SC is a barrister practising in criminal, family and civil work, (predominantly personal injuries, inquiries and inquests). Aside from the usual practice of car accidents, murders, rapes and family disputes over children, assets and pets, and all conflicts those areas of law entail, she is also well known for her refugee and detention centre work. She has developed a keen interest in gender equity issues in the last few years in particular and is the Law Society of SA representative on the Law Council gender committee, a member of the SA Bar Women at the Bar committee and a member of the Law Society's own gender equity working group.

Simon Bourne, Solicitor, Bourne Lawyers
Simon completed a Bachelor's degree in Laws and Legal Practice at Flinders University in September 2009 and is admitted to the Supreme Court of South Australia and the High Court of Australia. In addition to his experience at Bourne Lawyers, Simon has worked for the Victorian Supreme Court and Court of Appeal and practised as a solicitor with a commercial insurance firm in Melbourne. Simon is nationally recognised for his expertise in employment and industrial law and is committed to providing practical advice to enable clients to achieve excellent results without undue cost and delay in all areas of his practice.

Mark Douglas, Barrister, Murray Chambers
Between 2004 and 2011 Mark Douglas was a Partner and in house counsel in the Commercial Litigation team at Minter Ellison and before that worked as commercial litigator at Bonnins and Phillips Fox (now DW Fox Tucker).  Mark now practices as a barrister from Murray Chambers.  Mark works in a broad range of litigious areas but his particular focus is in commercial and civil disputes, insolvency, administrative law and tax, trusts and estates matters.  From 2011, Mark has been recognised in the Best Lawyers International list for Litigation and in Doyle’s Guide since 2014.

Maurine Pyke QC, John Bray Chambers
Maurine Pyke QC was appointed Queen's Counsel on 2nd December 2004, having joined the Bar in 1986. She practises primarily in Family Law and De Facto Relationship Law. Maurine was a former member from 1995 to 2010 of the Executive of the Bar Association of South Australia including member of the Ethics Committee and Chair of the Family Law Committee. She is also a Past Member and past Chair for 6 years of the Family Law Section of the Law Society of South Australia. She is currently Presiding Member of the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal has been President of the Central Domestic Violence Service for approximately 30 years.

Jane Miller, Barrister, Elizabeth Evatt Chambers
Jane Miller was admitted to practice in 2001 and spent most of her career at Tindall Gask Bentley working in Family Law & Wills and Estates, before moving to the independent Bar in June 2019. As a member of Elizabeth Evatt Chambers in Adelaide, Jane practices in all areas of family law. Gaining Specialist Accreditation in Family Law in 2005, Jane has a strong commitment to helping clients work through the legal aspects of relationship breakdown. She is the co-chair of the Law Society's Family Law Committee.

Graham Edmonds-Wilson QC, Howard Zelling Chambers
Graham Edmonds-Wilson is a barrister at Howard Zelling Chambers. He joined the South Australian bar in 2007 from Minter Ellison. He was with that firm and its predecessors from 1987, and was a partner of MinterEllison from 1998 to 2007. Graham has practised widely in the area of commercial disputes during the whole of his career. For over 12 years he has also practised extensively in the field of deceased estates and trusts, and has advised and appeared in cases involving wills and trusts interpretation issues, family provision claims and other disputed estates matters.

Katarina Grenfell, Barrister, Murray Chambers
Katarina was admitted as a barrister and solicitor in South Australia and the High Court in 1995, and was called to the bar in 2018. Katarina has a broad practice in civil, commercial and public law matters, which includes advising on and appearing in matters involving environment and planning law, employment law and estate law. Prior to commencing practice at the Bar, Katarina had an extensive career as an international lawyer, working within the UN Office of the Legal Counsel in New York, where she advised on a broad range of complex and politically sensitive legal issues regarding UN operations worldwide.

Suzanne Mackenzie, Barrister, Bar Chambers
Suzanne Mackenzie joined the independent bar in South Australia in2018, following almost 30 years of practice as a solicitor. She has particular expertise in the fields of financial services, superannuation (for both large fund and self-managed superannuation funds), taxation and trusts. She has also advised boards and individual directors of 'for-profit' and 'not-for-profit' companies and other bodies. Suzanne has had significant exposure as instructing solicitor (and more recently, also as counsel) in various significant civil litigation matters, including several iconic superannuation and trust cases in the Supreme Courts of South Australia and Victoria and also in the Federal Court.

Karl Luke, Partner, Thomson Geer
Karl has over 25 years' experience practising as both a barrister and a solicitor advising on a broad range of workplace legal issues. His practice specifically focuses on industrial relations, employment law, Work Health and Safety law, and workers' compensation. Karl has advised the Commonwealth Government statutory agency, Safe Work Australia, on a range of issues involving Work Health and Safety laws and has an interest in the governance of safety (due diligence), regulatory compliance, and safety system design. Karl advises and acts for large corporations in workplace law disputes. He also advises industry stakeholders and employers on all aspects of the Return to Work scheme.

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Issues covered include: Social Media, Evidence, disclosure, discovery, Property Valuation: Expert Evidence, Drafting Affidavits and Practical Advocacy.

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Issues covered include: binding financial agreements, shams and scams, tax risks, financial statements

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Issues covered include: diversity, wellness, discrimination, true story content, location, social media, streaming, social impact programming, unfair contracts, fair dealing, visas and immigration law

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Issues covered include: Insurance Contracts Act, non-disclosure, superannuation disability claims, Centrelink, tax and superannuation implications

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Issues covered include: copyright, trademarks, patent law, IP, intellectual property, IP infringements, intangible assets, IP licensing, ethical duties, IP risk, machine learning technology

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Issues covered include: Jurisdictional error, administrative law, reasonableness, limitations to administrative, discretionary power, procedural fairness

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Issues covered include: costs recovery, out of pocket legal costs, costs assessors, costs determinations

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Issues covered include: Health Practitioners and Hospitals in Investigations and Inquests, Misdiagnosis and Failure to Diagnose, Disciplinary Matters: AHPRA and VCAT, NDIS, Breach of Duty and Causation.

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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: jurisdiction, appeals, strata disputes, Home Building Act, costs

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Issues covered include: scope of employment, permanent impairment, PIRS criteria, workplace injury damages, Motor Accident Injuries Act, Motor Accident Compensation Act, CARS and MAS determinations, psychiatric examinations

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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: 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: 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: 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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