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Issues covered include: procurement contracts, cancelled programs or schemes, information requests, sexual harassment, statutory interpretation, data breach, model litigant
It’s an interesting time for public sector lawyers. With new developments in public procurement, the continuing impact of still-evolving privacy and data security legislation, ripples from recent Royal Commissions still being felt in the sector and important trends in employment law, the model litigant principle and more, there’s a lot to take in. Whether these developments throw your practice into chaos or prove to be exciting challenges to face head on will depend on how prepared you are to deal with them.
Attend and earn 7 CPD units including:
4 units in Substantive Law
1 unit in Ethics & Professional Responsibility
1 unit in Practice Management & Business Skills
1 unit in Professional Skills
This conference was recorded in NSW on 13 March 2019
Public Law Essentials
Chair: Pamela Soon, Executive Director and former General Counsel, IPART
9.00am to 10.00am: Public Procurement Contracts
Presented by José de Ponte, Special Counsel, DLA Piper
10.00am to 11.00: The Impact of Pulling the Plug: Liability Issues that Arise when Government Cancels Programs or Schemes
Presented by Dr Ashley Tsacalos, Partner, Clayton Utz
11.00am to 11.15am Morning Tea
11.15am to 12.15pm: To Produce or Not to Produce: What are Your Obligations?
Presented by Sarah A McCarthy, Barrister, 5 Wentworth Chambers
12.15pm to 1.15pm: The Weinstein Effect: Sexual Harassment in Government Departments
Presented by Ian Latham, Barrister, Denman Chambers
CPD Compulsory Units for Government Lawyers
Chair: Kate Madgwick, Barrister, Ground Floor Wentworth Chambers
Professional Skills
2.00pm to 3.00pm: Interpreting Statutes and Understanding Regulations
Gain an understanding of recent High Court decisions concerning the principles of statutory construction and apply those principles using hypothetical scenarios.
Presented by Douglas McDonald-Norman, Barrister, Eight Selborne Chambers
Practice Management
3.00pm to 4.00pm: Data Breach: What NSW Government Departments and Agencies Must Do
Presented by Peter Mulligan, Partner and Michael Sullivan, Partner, Norton Rose Fulbright
4.00pm to 4.15pm Afternoon Tea
Ethics & Professional Responsibility
4.15pm to 5.15pm: The Model of a Modern Government Litigant
Recommendations out of the recent Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse have drawn renewed attention to the justification and scope of model litigant principles and the consequences of their breach. Examine these issues in light of the challenges facing government litigants in striving to be the ‘model’, especially when human rights are at stake.
Presented by Dan Fuller, Barrister, 5 Wentworth Chambers