Winning Advocacy Techniques
Advocacy skills are key to any winning formula to ensure success for as a litigator. This stellar panel of speakers will share their wealth of knowledge on some important advocacy skills so that you can shine when needed. Don’t miss the opportunity to spend the afternoon with these seasoned advocates as they reveal their tips with persuasive strategies to improve your results inside the courtroom. 223W15
Description
Attend and earn 3 CPD points in Competency Area 2: Professional Skills
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
Chair: Anthony Willinge, Barrister, Francis Burt Chambers; Recommended Commercial Litigation & Dispute Resolution Junior Counsel, Doyle’s Guide 2021
Competency Area 2: Professional Skills
2.00pm to 3.00pm How to Prepare and Present an Effective Cross-Examination
- The objects of cross-examination
- Who may be cross-examined
- How cross-examination may proceed
- When to cross-examine
- Preparation and conduct of cross-examination
- The process of cross-examination
- Effective cross-examination
- Tactics for cross-examination
- What not to do
- What should be done
- Cross-examination on documents
- Cross-examination of own witness
- Cross-examination of experts
- Summary pf principal points
Presented by Stephen Owen-Conway KC, Svenson Barristers; Sir Lawrence Jackson Chambers; Adjunct Professor, College of Arts Business Law & Social Sciences, in the discipline of Law and Criminology, Murdoch University
Competency Area 2: Professional Skills
3.00pm to 4.00pm Advocacy in Mediations
- Why mediation requires a different mindset to litigation
- Essential mediation preparation for lawyers and clients
- What are the essential advocacy skills for lawyers in a mediation
- Matching mediation advocacy with realistic expectations and outcomes: for both lawyers and clients
- Best ways to remove roadblocks to resolution
Presented by Heinrich Moser, Barrister, Stephen Thackray Chambers; Accredited Family Law Arbitrator and Nationally Accredited Mediator; Preeminent Family Law Mediator, Doyle’s Guide 2021
4.00pm to 4.15pm Afternoon Tea
Competency Area 2: Professional Skills
4.15pm to 5.15pm Written Submissions: A Tool to be Reckoned With
- Drafting written submissions for applications and trials
- Relationship between the written submissions and oral argument
- How to persuade, making the most of your opportunity
Presented by Christopher Shanahan SC, Murray Chambers
Presenters
Anthony Willinge
Anthony obtained his law degree from the University of Western Australia, graduating with honours and the Frank Edward Parsons Memorial Prize in Law. He also has a Masters of Law with distinction from the University of London, where he studied Wigmorean analysis and evidence and proof. Anthony joined the independent Bar in 2009. Anthony is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of Western Australia where he has been teaching Advanced Evidence and Proof for around 20 years.
Stephen Owen-Conway KC
Stephen Owen-Conway KC specialises in commercial litigation and practices in the fields of competition Law, taxation, intellectual property; corporations law; maritime law and sports law. He appears in the Federal Court of Australia and other Commonwealth Courts and Tribunals. He also appears in the Supreme Court of Western Australia and in the Court of Appeal. Stephen was first called to the English Bar in 1973, then joining the Queensland Bar in 1975 and the Western Australian Bar in 1977 and was appointed a King's Counsel in the states of Queensland and Western Australia in 1992. Stephen currently holds the position of adjunct professor of law at Murdoch University in Perth.
Heinrich Moser
Heinrich (Henry) Moser LLM is a Barrister, Accredited Family Law Arbitrator and Nationally Accredited Mediator. He attended Law Schools at the University of Zurich and the University of Western Australia and was admitted to the Supreme Court of Western Australia and the High Court of Australia in 1995. He was a solicitor and partner at Paterson & Dowding between 1995 and 1999 and has practiced as a Barrister since 1999. Heinrich obtained Masters of Laws (UWA) and was accredited as Family Law Arbitrator in 2001 and as Mediator in 2012. He has completed the Advanced Mediation Training at Harvard Law School and has a Certificate in Design Thinking from RMIT., He practices in family and de facto law, estates and probate, family provision, equity and trusts, appeals and other general civil litigation in all Courts. Henry's publications include articles on Family Law, De Facto Law, Estates, Bankruptcy, Superannuation and Personal Injury. He has presented numerous papers and seminars on a variety of subjects. He is the author of the Chapters on Family Law and ADR, WA Law Handbook Online, Sussex Street. He has also co-authored the Section on Children in Halsbury's Laws of Australia. Outside the law, Henry is a qualified intercultural trainer and was a Member and Chair of the Board of AFS Intercultural Programs Australia.
Christopher Shanahan SC
Christopher Shanahan SC is an independent barrister and was appointed silk on 1 December 2004. He is a member of the WA Bar Association, of which he was Vice-President from 2005 until 2007. Chris's practice focuses on civil, administrative and commercial matters, with an emphasis on appeals. Chris has a substantial body of work in native title, mining, and compulsory acquisition, and the structure and operation of trusts. He often provides advice around the exercise of coercive statutory powers and regulation generally. Chris also regularly acts for a range of federal government agencies. Chris is the head of Murray Chambers established in February 2017. Murray Chambers has an affiliation with barristers’ chambers in Adelaide and Darwin. Chris served in a part time role as Acting Commissioner of the Corruption and Crime Commission of Western Australia for over 7 years; he has also served as an Acting Information Commissioner. Chris is a fellow of the Australian Academy of Law. He has an extensive background in legal education and is an experienced advocacy trainer. Chris was a member of the Australian Bar Association's Advocacy Training Council (2008-2017) and was Course Director of the ABA's first Appellate Advocacy Course in 2012. He has also taught in the ABA Advanced Advocacy courses. Chris taught in the South-Eastern Circuit's Advanced Advocacy Course at Keble College in Oxford in 2005 and 2010. He has lectured in law at Macquarie and Murdoch Universities, and teaches occasionally at Curtin University where he is an Adjunct Clinical Professor.
Venue
Parmelia Hilton
Level 1, Meeting Room, 14 Mill Street
Perth 6000
WA
Australia
Directions
Nearby Public Transport:
Train Stations - The Esplanade Station
Bus Interchange - St Georges Terrace Cloisters Green
Parking information
Parmilia Hilton - Valet Parking only - Click here to view rates.
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