Litigation 101 Series: A Guide to Working with Experts
Gain in in-depth guide to assist you when working with experts. Learn how to select and brief experts as well as understanding what might be protected by privilege and principles of admissibility. WEB226N29B
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD unit in Professional Skills
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
Chair: Lisa Gooneratne, Special Counsel, HWL Ebsworth
1.00pm to 2.15pm A Guide to Working with Experts
- Selecting and briefing experts
- Preparing experts and their reports: strategies and ethical limits
- Expert reports and legal professional privilege: principles, strategies, and pitfalls
- Uniform Civil Procedure Guidelines
- Admissibility of reports: principles for compliance, and strategies for objection
- The ‘Hot Tub’: Should the experts be swimming in it?
Presented by Hugh Stowe, Barrister, 5 Wentworth Chambers
Presenters
Lisa Gooneratne
Lisa has extensive experience in personal injury insurance law, in a variety of areas. Lisa acts for both private insurers and Government agencies, in the areas of public liability, workers compensation, medical negligence, coronial inquests, medical disciplinary matters and motor vehicle accidents. Lisa also acts for a self-insurers, including a national airline and national banks, in relation to personal injury claims. Lisa is actively involved in the ACT legal community, being a former chair of the Young Lawyers Committee and currently a Commissioner and Board member of the ACT Legal Aid Commission.
Hugh Stowe
Hugh Stowe is a barrister and mediator, with chambers at 5 Wentworth. He has a broad commercial and equity practice, including trial and appellate and inquiry work, with particular specialisation corporations law, insolvency and directors’ duties, restraint of trade. Before coming to Bar, Mr Stowe obtained an LLM at Cambridge, practised as a solicitor in firms now known as King & Wood Mallesons, and Herbert Smith Freehills, and was Associate to the Chief Justice of the Federal Court. He has publications in the area of ethics, expert evidence, legal professional privilege, restitution, and has a current research interest in settlement theory and mediation practice.