Family Law Advanced Evidence
Hear from current and former judges. You’ll take an advance review of evidence in Family Law and understand your pre action and ongoing disclosure obligations. Learn how to deal with electronic disclosure and improperly obtained information in breach of criminal, telecommunications, and surveillance laws. Get a view from the bench on affidavit evidence and a new understanding of inadvertent waiver of privilege. 229N01
Description
Attend and earn 3.5 CPD units in Substantive Law
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
Chair: James Richardson, Special Counsel, Dimocks Family Lawyers
1.30pm to 2.30pm Inadvertent Waiver of Privilege
- Client legal privilege: Division 1, Part 3.10 Evidence Act 1995 (Cth)
- The loss of client legal privilege: section 122
- Determining the extent of the waiver
- Consideration of recent case law
- Practical tips
Presented by Ian Coleman SC, Acting Judge District Court of NSW and Principal Member of NCAT
2.30pm to 3.30pm Disclosure: Pre Action and Ongoing
Take a deep dive into your pre action and ongoing disclosure obligations and explore what documents must be disclosed under the new rules. Learn how to deal with electronic disclosure and how to deal with information improperly obtained in breach of criminal, telecommunications, and surveillance laws.
Presented by Dina Lioumis, Barrister, Waratah Chambers
3.30pm to 4.00pm War Stories: Tips and Common Traps
Presented by Dina Lioumis, Barrister, Waratah Chambers and James Richardson, Special Counsel, Dimocks Family Lawyers
4.00pm to 4.15pm Afternoon Tea
4.15pm to 5.15pm Affidavit Evidence: View from the Bench
Presented by Judge Gillian Eldershaw, Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (Division 2)
Presenters
James Richardson
James Richardson has been practising in the area of Family Law since 1986, firstly as a partner with Gilson, Patch and Richardson. In 1996 he became a sole practitioner. His practice continued to be focussed on Family Law, but at the same time James maintained his expertise in the areas of conveyancing, wills and estates. James joined the practice of Dimocks Family Lawyers in 2017, where he continues to practice in: the practical and legal aspects of relationship breakdown; advocacy in the Family Court and the Federal Circuit Court; binding Financial Agreements; children's issues; helping clients to navigate the negotiation of disputes arising from relationship breakdown, through mediation and other alternative dispute techniques; helping clients to achieve a cost-effective and equitable outcome. James became an Accredited Specialist in Family Law in 1998. James has appeared in complex matters such as the High Court decision in U & U [2002] HCA 36. He has previously worked as an acting Registrar of the Family Court and is able to share with his clients the benefit of a lengthy and varied practice in Family Law.
Dina Lioumis
Dina Lioumis was admitted to the Bar in 2018 and is a member of the NSW Bar Association. Prior to coming to the bar, Dina was admitted as a solicitor in 1990. As a solicitor Dina practiced in the area of family law, becoming an accredited specialist, and worked as a solicitor and solicitor advocate. Dina’s 28 years of experience in family law includes sitting as a Registrar in the Family Court, working as a solicitor in Legal Aid as well as private practice, serving as a member of the Law Society Professional Conduct Committee. She has also taught evidence and ethics at the University of Technology Sydney. Dina has acted in matters before the Full Court of the Family Court of Australia, the Family Court of Australia, the Federal Circuit Court of Australia, the NSW Supreme Court and the Children’s Court of NSW in various Registries. Dina has appeared in country sittings of the Family Court of Australia and the Federal Circuit Court of Australia throughout NSW. Dina was recently named by the Doyle’s Guide as one of the recommended Parenting and Children’s Barristers in Australia.
Ian Coleman SC
Acting Judge of the District Court of New South Wales. Judge Ian Coleman was admitted to practise as Solicitor Supreme Court of NSW 6 March 1974. Having gone to the NSW Bar in 1975 he practised as a barrister until 1991 when he was appointed to the trial division of the Family Court of Australia. In 1991 he was appointed to the Appeal Division Family Court of Australia and sat as a Western Plains Judge of the Family Court of Australia between 2009 and 2013 when he returned to practice at Culwulla Chambers. Ian practised at the Sydney Bar in the areas of agriculture, environment, mining, equity, commercial and complex family law property settlement and appeals. He is an arbitrator appointed pursuant to the Family Law Act, a nationally accredited mediator, an accredited mediator under the Farm Debt Mediation Act and on the panel of mediators for the Supreme and District Courts. Other positions he has held are Judge Advocate - Australian Defence Force 1992- 1997 and Commissioner, Australian Law Reform Commission January 1993- December 2003 and Adjunct Professor in the School of Law University of Western Sydney.
Judge Gillian Eldershaw
Her Honour Judge Eldershaw is a Judge of the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (Division 2) in the Sydney Registry. Her Honour was appointed to the Court in April 2022 after many years in practice, of which 14 years were at the NSW Bar specialising in family law and employment-related disciplinary matters, investigations and public inquiries. In 2004, Her Honour graduated from the University of Sydney with First Class Honours in Law and, for the next few years, was a solicitor at Allens Arthur Robinson (as it then was), where she worked as a commercial litigator. Prior to studying law, Her Honour was a Registered Nurse. The expertise she gained in acute psychiatry and paediatrics provides an invaluable set of skills and insight for which has since become practice in family law. In conjunction with her judicial duties, Her Honour is a Member of the NSW Independent Liquor and Gaming Authority which recently oversaw the licensing of Crown Casino after the 2021 Bergin Review and other Royal Commissions, and the ongoing Inquiry into the Star Casino. Outside of the law, Her Honour is a keen supporter of the Arts, especially through her involvement with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, of which she is a Patron and Council Member. Her Honour’s early years as a lawyer in commercial litigation, where the cases with which she was involved were in the Supreme and Federal Courts, explains her enduring interest in the craftsmanship of well-drawn affidavits. She hopes that the session at the forthcoming seminar will provide practical and useful insights into the drafting of good and useful affidavits. This is a skill that is remarkably simple, yet rarely executed. The session is intended to be informal and interactive. Participants are invited to treat the session as a safe space in which to ask questions and to ‘workshop’ ideas and approaches. Notes will be provided on the day.
Venue
Legalwise Seminars - Pitt Street
Level 11 70 Pitt Street
Sydney 2000 NSW
Australia
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