CPD Compulsory Units: How to Deal with an Oversight or Inadvertent Mistake in Your Practice
At some point in every practice an oversight or an inadvertent mistake will arise. When that happens it’s critical that you’re prepared to act immediately to evaluate the mistake, make the proper disclosures, minimise as much damage as possible, and put yourself in a position to rectify the mistake. Work through each of these issues with step by step guides and insights into what you need to consider and do when a mistake arises. WEB219N07A
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD unit in Practice Management & Business Skills
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
Practice Management & Business Skills
How to Deal with an Oversight or Inadvertent Mistake in Your Practice
- Understanding the nature of oversights & mistakes
- Steps to take immediately upon discovering a mistake
- Evaluating the mistake, who and how to confer with or notify
- Disclosure: getting the manner & timing of the disclosure right
- How to avoid compounding the mistake
- Maximising your chance of the mistake being rectified
- What about another practitioner’s error?
Presented by Ashley Macknay, Director, MDS Legal
Presenters
Ashley Macknay, Director, MDS Legal
Ashley is a director of MDS Legal and practises principally in the areas of professional indemnity and professional discipline. Ashley has been a member of the panels of solicitors for both Law Mutual (WA) (the Law Society of Western Australia’s professional indemnity arm) and the Legal Practice Board of Western Australia (the regulator of the legal profession in Western Australia) for many years. Ashley has also been the Law Society of Western Australia’s delegate to the Professional Ethics Committee of the Law Council of Australia since the inception of that Committee in 2009. As a member of that Committee, Ashley has participated in the drafting of the Australian Solicitors’ Conduct Rules and Commentary.