10 Points in One Day Your Last Chance
This is it! This is your last chance! Attend on this last day and get it all done in one go. If you have left your CPD points until the last minute, don’t despair. We have you covered with this jam-packed day with all the core elements you need. Dynamic speakers covering all the necessary areas with dedicated sessions to ensure that you receive real learning outcomes and all your CPD units in one day. 233V26
Description
Attend and earn 10 CPD units including:
7 units in Substantive Law
1 unit in Ethics & Professional Responsibility
1 unit in Practice Management & Business Skills
1 unit in Professional Skills
This program is based on VIC legislation
Session 1
CPD Compulsory Units for All Lawyers
Chair: Ric Birkett, Principal Lawyer, Aitken Partners; Leading Health & Aged Care Lawyer, Doyle’s Guide 2021
Professional Skills
7:30am to 8.30am Valuations of Early Stage Companies
- What is an early stage company?
- What methods do you use to value and early stage company?
- Discounted cashflow method
- Intangible assets
- Preparing a valuation
- Concluding comments
Presented by Wynand Mullins, Senior Managing Director and Michael Kanan, Senior Director, FTI Consulting
Ethics & Professional Responsibility
8.30am to 9.30am An Ethical Review: VCAT Decisions From 2022 and the Lessons to be Learned
This session will review the VCAT decisions dealing with ethical complaints against lawyers and the outcomes.
Presented by Dr Theo Alexander, Barrister; Associate Professor, Deakin Law School
Practice Management & Business Skills
9.30am to 10.30am Managing Workplace Complaints in a Hybrid World: What's Changed, What's Stayed the Same and What to do About it!
- Role of employee engagement in workplace complaints
- Particular Risks for workplace complaints in the hybrid environment
- Using working from home strategically in a workplace complaint setting
- Tips and tricks for investigating and managing complaints in a hybrid environment
Presented by Jodie Fox, Director, Worklogic Consulting
10.30am to 10.45am Morning Tea Break
Session 2
Succession, Estate Planning and Property
Chair: Ric Birkett, Principal Lawyer, Aitken Partners; Leading Health & Aged Care Lawyer, Doyle’s Guide 2021
10.45am to 11.45am Wills, Estates and Trusts: Year in Review
Join us for a very special session as Daniela reviews key developments and significant cases in succession law and trusts from the last 12 months and shares knowledge that will set you up for the year ahead.
Presented by Daniela Pavlovic, Principal, Harwood Andrews
11.45am to 12.45pm Estate Planning and Superannuation Death Benefits
- The High Court decision in Hill v Zuda
- The legal position with binding death benefit nominations (‘BDBN’) and Superannuation Industry (Supervision) legislation
- Transfer balance cap
- BDBN vs reversionary pension vs pension
- Importance of incorporating superannuation into the estate plan
Presented by Nathan Papson, Principal, Papson Legal
12.45pm to 1.45pm Commercial Leasing and Property Law Update
Whilst the pandemic declaration has ended, the pandemic’s effects on commercial leases and other property law elements are far from over. The impacts of the various regulations will continue to be relevant for years to come, and cases about these matters still make their way into VCAT and the courts. Gain essential knowledge and key takeaways of these leasing and other frequent land law disputes and issues. Otherwise, keep up to date with developments in the cases and legislation that you need to be across for your practice and your clients.
Presented by Antony Berger, Barrister
Session 3
Commercial Law Roundup
Chair: Christopher Dale OAM
2.15pm to 3.15pm Critical IP Issues for Your Commercial Clients
- Identifying IP assets and their significance
- IP protection strategies
- IP ownership
- Significant infringement issues
Presented by Warwick Rothnie, Barrister, List G Barristers
3.15pm to 4.15pm Contracts and Unfair Contracts Terms Roundup
- Proposed changes to the unfair contract terms regime
- Review of recent unfair contract terms decisions and resulting drafting considerations
- Explore unresolved issues arising from the recent Code changes
Presented by Hugo de Kock, Barrister
4.15pm to 4.30pm Afternoon Tea
4.30pm to 5.30pm Employment and Industrial Law Roundup
Employment and industrial law round-up. This session is designed to bring you up to date with recent legislative and regulatory developments (implemented and proposed) and the most important and interesting decisions from courts and tribunals around the country. This will be a quick survey to help you get on top of what you need to know in this fast-moving area.
Presented by Sean Selleck, Partner, Baker McKenzie
5.30pm to 6.30pm Insolvency and Bankruptcy Fundamentals for the Commercial Lawyer
- Update on proposed policy and practical changes in bankruptcy in 2023
- Interaction between insolvency and debt recovery in bankruptcy and in liquidations and the variable approaches taken by the courts
- The likely effects on debt recovery procedures
Presented by John Dunne, Principal, John Dunne and Associates
Presenters
Wynand Mullins
Wynand Mullins is a forensic accounting expert specialising in dispute advisory, financial investigations and contentious valuations. Wynand has appeared as an expert witness in a number of courts. He has also prepared expert reports relevant to loss and damage, financial investigations and valuation matters in legal proceedings in the Federal Court of Australia, the Supreme Court of Victoria, the Supreme Court of New South Wales, Family Court of Australia, New South Wales Land and Environment Court, Grand Cayman Court and the High Court of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. In 2018, Wynand was engaged by Macquarie University and approved by CA ANZ to lead the successful design and delivery of the Forensic Accounting Specialisation accreditation course, launched in Australia and New Zealand. Wynand is a Chartered Accountant based in Sydney. He previously led the New South Wales forensic accounting practice of an international chartered accounting firm and has worked in forensic accounting, corporate recovery and business advisory practices in Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.
Michael Kanan
Michael is a highly regarded forensic expert with more than 15 years’ experience in transaction services and dispute advisory with a particular emphasis on business valuations and financial modelling. Michael has valued businesses and investments in Australia, New Zealand, North America and United Kingdom at all stages of the commercial life cycle. Michael has extensive experience in expert witness and consulting expert roles and provides advice to clients, their legal advisers and the courts on contentious business, finance and accounting matters to help resolve disputes. Michael’s independent expert, consulting expert, and expert determination assignments often require the application of business valuation or economic loss quantification methods, including financial modelling and cost of capital analysis.
Theo Alexander
Theo Alexander graduated from the University of Melbourne in 2002 with a Bachelor of Laws. He obtained a Masters Degree from Deakin University in 2012. Theo practices principally in two areas: commercial law and criminal law. He appears regularly in the trial divisions of the Supreme Courts of Victoria, Western Australia, South Australia and Queensland in both areas. His commercial practice encompasses litigation in contractual, equitable and property law related disputes. Theo has particular expertise in company law matters arising under the Corporations Act 2001: company insolvency and administration, corporate governance, minority shareholder actions, civil penalties and director disqualifications. Theo has also appeared in hearings before the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, Australian Taxation Office and in private arbitrations. His criminal law practice involves mainly complex fraud/financial and other white-collar crimes, especially market manipulation, insider trading and ASIC and ATO prosecutions. He has an extensive appeal practice and has appeared in many important criminal appeals in Victoria and interstate. Since 2005, Theo has lectured in the Undergraduate and Postgraduate programs at Deakin University. He teaches in corporations law, international commercial law, sentencing law, legal ethics and privilege, and the law of evidence. He is the co-author of two books (on evidence and human rights law) and many law journal articles relating to sentencing law.
Jodie Fox
Jodie brings 20 years’ experience as an employment lawyer and consultant to her Worklogic directorship. Working previously at a top-tier law firm, in-house within the Federal Government and in ASX 200 firms, Jodie has a deep understanding of employment law across business sectors. Jodie is a Director at Worklogic - a boutique consultancy firm of investigators, mediators, and trainers that assists employers to mitigate the risk of poor Workplace Behaviour. Jodie appreciates the policy and regulatory aspects of workplace behaviour and thinks and writes on issues of workplace culture, workplace bullying, and sexual harassment. She is often called on to conduct particularly sensitive workplace investigations into allegations against senior employees. Jodie is an Honorary Senior Fellow at the University of Melbourne Law School where she teaches Workplace Investigations as a master’s unit.
Ric Birkett
Ric Birkett is a principal lawyer in the Commercial and Property Section of Aitken Partners and has been in practice for over 25 years. His practice covers a broad range of corporate, commercial and property work in the commercial and not for profit sectors, including particular involvement in the aged care and retirement living industry (with recognition in the Health and Aged Care list in Doyle’s Guide). His work includes advising a range of clients in respect of governance, compliance, structuring and a range of commercial and property transactions including mergers and the purchase and sale of businesses and business interests.
Daniela Pavlovic
Daniela has extensive experience in the area of succession planning. She assists clients in preparing wills and powers of attorney, including complex wills such as testamentary trusts. She is also experienced in all aspects of estate administration. Her key areas of practice include estate planning (preparation of wills including testamentary trust wills), superannuation planning, powers of attorney, special disability trusts, VCAT administration and guardianship applications, probate applications and estate administration, disputed probate applications, disputed estates and survivorship applications.
Antony Berger
Antony has a broad commercial practice and appears in all jurisdictions. He is regularly briefed to appear (whether led or unled), to draw pleadings, and to provide strategic and considered advice in all commercial matters. He is also regularly briefed to appear in and assist with the preparation of; applications for freezing orders, security for costs, injunctions, summary judgment and strike outs. His specific experience includes: Commercial law: Corporations Act matters (eg oppression proceedings), contract disputes, Australian Consumer Law matters, loans, fund misappropriation and accessorial liability issues, sales of businesses, and restraint of trade. Property: leasing, relief against forfeiture, sale of land, estate agents, planning and restrictive covenants, caveat removal, adverse possession, easements, owners corporations, recovery of land, and land rateability; Insolvency: set aside statutory demands, contested winding up applications, advice on voidable transactions, meetings proceedings, and personal bankruptcy; and Building and construction: Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act 2002, domestic building disputes, Building Act and BCA issues. He is undertaking a Master of Laws at the University of Melbourne. He also tutors in Obligations, Contracts and Property at Ormond College at the university. He read with Roslyn Kaye. His senior mentor is Philip Crutchfield QC. As a solicitor, he practiced in insurance law and commercial litigation across Victoria and NSW.
Hugo de Kock
Hugo is an experienced litigator and trial advocate. He has a broad commercial litigation practice, which includes areas such as contract law, trade practices, banking and finance, trusts, corporations (including breach of director's duties), bankruptcy and insolvency, tort, property and professional negligence. Before coming to the Bar he was a solicitor in Melbourne for more than 4 years practising in commercial litigation. Between 2002 and 2005 he was a barrister in Cape Town. He holds a LLM in International Trade Law from the University of Stellenbosch, where, while doing his masters, he taught Law of Things.
Sean Selleck
Sean has more than 30 years' experience advising small and large corporations multinational businesses and senior executives in relation to employment and industrial law. Sean has a special interest in non-standard labour practices (such as labour hire and the use of casual employees and independent contractors) and supply chain transparency, with a particular focus on labour law compliance and modern slavery in local and global supply chains.
John Dunne
John Dunne was admitted as a lawyer in Victoria in 1980. He initially worked as a tax and commercial lawyer following articles, gradually moving into litigation from 1980 to 1982 at John Wilder-Darren Moses. In 1983 John commenced practice as an employee then partner with Phillip Biber acting for a large mercantile agency in Victoria & NSW performing all types of civil litigation with an emphasis on insolvency work and with a significant appearance load as Counsel in the Magistrates Court, County Court, Supreme and Federal courts in Bankruptcy & Winding up matters. John has been a sole practitioner since 1986 up until 2006 with emphasis on high volume Debt Recovery and Insolvency almost exclusively for Creditors. John left Dibbs Abbott Stillman (now Thompson Greer) in December 2008 and resumed private practice as a sole practitioner under his own name with a continuing emphasis on Civil Litigation & Insolvency work.
Venue
RACV City Club
Level 2, 501 Bourke St
Melbourne 3000
VIC
Australia
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