Family Law Conference

Gain insights and practical guidance to ensure you’re up to date on the latest cases and strategies on everything in relation to assessing contributions, distributions, addbacks, and hidden tax liabilities when dividing up the pool of assets in your property matters and financial settlements, from a stellar line-up of leading family law practitioners. Stay for the afternoon and gain all your CPD compulsory core units. 233Q14

Description

Attend and earn 7 CPD units including:
4 units in Legal Knowledge
1 unit in Practical Legal Ethics
1 unit in Practice Management & Business Skills
1 unit in Professional Skills 

This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories

Session 1

Assessing Contributions, Distributions, Addbacks, & Tax Liabilities

Chair: Kay Feeney, Director, Feeney Family Lawyers; Family Law Accredited Specialist, Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner & Nationally Accredited Mediator; Leading Family & Divorce Lawyer and Parenting & Children’s Matters Lawyer, Doyle’s Guide 2022

9.00am to 10.00am Premature Distributions, Waste and Add-backs

  • Dealing with pre-mature distributions
  • Prevention and protection strategies
  • Current position on waste
  • Different categories of addback
  • How to successfully argue an addback
  • Treatment of legal fees
  • Recent decisions

Presented by Genevieve Dee, Partner, Lander & Rogers; Preeminent Family & Divorce Lawyer; Leading Parenting & Children’s Matters Lawyer and Recommended Family Lawyer (High-Value & Complex Property Matters), Doyle’s Guide 2022

10.00am to 11.00am Assessing Weight of Contributions: What is the Current View on Specific Contributions

  • What do Jabor, Chancellor and McCoy and Horrigan mean in relation to the Court’s assessment of contributions?
  • Family loan versus contribution 
  • Dual contribution: What is it and what does it mean?
  • Brief overview of redundancy and personal injury, trauma, life and income protection insurance payments

Presented by Greg Shoebridge, Barrister, Inns of Court; Leading Family Law Junior Counsel, Doyle’s Guide 2022

11.00am to 11.15am Morning Tea

11.15am to 12.15pm Tax Liabilities: What to Watch out for When Considering the Financial Records and Structuring the Financial Settlement

  • What can you gleam from the financial statements regarding tax liabilities
  • When calculating the assets, what tax liabilities do you need to include
  • Tax liabilities that might arise from the financial settlements

Presented by Wendy Miller, Special Counsel, Damien Greer Lawyers

12.15pm to 1.15pm Analysis of Recent Family Law and Property Division Cases

Gain a valuable update of the most recent, significant cases from the Family Court of Australia and Federal Circuit Court on property and financial settlements.
Presented by Guy Waterman, Barrister, Brisbane Chambers

Session 2

Ethics, Professional Skills and Practice Management for Family Lawyers

Chair: Genevieve Dee, Partner, Lander & Rogers; Preeminent Family & Divorce Lawyer; Leading Parenting & Children’s Matters Lawyer and Recommended Family Lawyer (High-Value & Complex Property Matters), Doyle’s Guide 2022

Practice Management & Business Skills
2.00pm to 3.00pm Responding to Mental Health Concerns of your Clients

This session will discuss why creating a culture of care in your family law practice that responds to the mental health of your clients is key to the success of your practice.

  • Prevalence and impact of mental health issues on parents & children
  • Symptoms and how they may impact the family law process
  • The intersectionality between mental health and family conflict
  • Screening for Mental Health at Family Law Services
  • Information, referral, and advice for mental health
  • Client focused strategies for managing Mental Health
  • Practical guidance for legal practitioners working with separated parents who have mental health issues

Presented by Dr Megan Morris, Psychologist, Megan Morris Psychology and Dr Jemima Petch, PhD (Clinical Psychology), MAPS Head of Practice, Relationships Australia

Ethics & Professional Responsibility
3.00pm to 4.00pm Non-Disclosure and Professional Misconduct

  • Your Ethical responsibility and legal obligations when a client deliver suspicious documents or material
  • Documents obtained ‘innocently’ by your client from the family home
  • Documents to which the other spouse has an obligation to disclose
  • Documents obtained from the other spouse’s inbox and mobile phone
  • Complying with disclosure rules and the role of the lawyer in disclosure
  • What if your client gets it wrong?

Presented by Alison Ross, Partner; Accredited Specialist in Family Law; Leading Family Lawyer (High-Value & Complex Property Matters) and Leading Family Lawyer (High-Value & Complex Property Matters), Doyle’s Guide 2022 and Stacey Percival, Senior Associate, HopgoodGanim Lawyers

4.00pm to 4.15pm Afternoon Tea

Professional Skills
4.15pm to 5.15pm How to Deal with a Family Law and Equitable Claim in the Family Court

In this session you will explore how the Family Court has dealt with the intersection of trusts in a family law context and will provide a practical ‘how to’ approach to dealing with an equitable claim in the Family Court

  • What happens when you have an equitable claim in the family court
  • How to run a constructive trust argument
  • Seeking equitable relief
  • Evidence required to support the existence of a particular trust

Presented by Jane FitzGerald, Barrister, French Quarter Chambers

Presenters

Kay Feeney
Kay has been an expert in family law for more than 35 years. She was admitted as a solicitor in 1985 and has been the director of Feeney Family Law since 2011. Kay is an accredited Family Law Specialist. She combines her Family Law expertise with an understanding of her clients’ issues and expectations to promote a safe, calm, and respectful rapport. She possesses a high level of legal technical competency and holds a clear tenacity of purpose. She ensures that her clients feel supported and are not vulnerable to any imbalances of power. Kay boasts extensive litigation experience with particular interest in mediation, collaboration, and arbitration. She is a Nationally Accredited Mediator and Arbitrator for family law matters and a qualified Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner. Her wisdom and experience as a mediator are highly requested. She has experience in property matters involving high value and working in complex corporate structures. She is also an expert across a range of other family matters, including parenting disputes complicated by parental deficits and special needs children. She also has vast experience as an Independent Children’s Lawyer. Kay comes recommended in the Doyle’s Guide of Leading Family & Divorce Lawyers in Brisbane for 2022. She has presented “How to limit conflict in Family Law matters” at two US conferences and presented at two European conferences “Family Lawyers & Legal Professional Privilege” and “Property Settlements & Spouse Maintenance for the Elderly”.

Genevieve Dee
Accredited Family Law Specialist Genevieve Dee is a partner at Lander and Rogers and has worked exclusively in family law and has fifteen years’ experience. Genevieve specialises in all aspects of family law, including parenting and property matters, financial agreements, spousal maintenance and child support issues. Doyle’s Guide 2022 has recognised Genevieve as a Pre-eminent Family & Divorce Lawyer, Leading Parenting & Children’s Matters Lawyer and Recommended Complex and High-Value Property Matters Lawyer in Brisbane. In addition, Genevieve has been named as recommended Family & Divorce Lawyer in the Doyle’s Guide 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022 national listings.

Greg Shoebridge
Greg Shoebridge has been at the private bar in Queensland since December 2008. He practises in family and succession law. Prior to 2008, he was partner of the firm Simonidis Shoebridge Lawyers. As a solicitor, Greg practised in family law exclusively for over 14 years, and was an Accredited Family Law Specialist. Greg has been the editor in chief of the journal, Current Family Law and the family law editor of the journal "Queensland Lawyer". He holds National accreditation as a mediator, and is a Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner for family law matters. Greg has been a member of the executive of the Family Law Practitioners Association of Queensland, and of both the Family Law Committee and the Alternative Dispute Resolution Committees of the Queensland Law Society. Greg has Bachelor degrees in accountancy and law, and a masters degree in law. He has presented numerous papers at various seminars over past years and has been published in a number of journals including the Australian Family Law Journal.

Wendy Miller
Wendy Miller has been an accredited specialist in family law since 2001. She has practised solely in family law since 1996. Wendy has had experience across the whole spectrum of family law but her main practice now is in financial matters. One of her goals is to develop a practice in family law that specializes in tax and estate and business succession planning issues. Specialties include: taxation issues arising in family law situations.

Guy Waterman
Guy Waterman was admitted as a Solicitor and practised extensively in the area of De Facto and Family Law and as a Mediator prior to being called to the Bar in 1993. Guy has continued to practice in the Family Law/De Facto areas as a Barrister and Mediator and during this time and has presented at seminars dealing with Family Law & Practice including: Disclosure, compliance with Orders, Making the most of financial experts in financial matters in conjunction with Joe Box, forensic accountant and Greg Jorgenson, registered valuer at BAQ, Cost - Orders, Offer and Risks, How to Deal with a Client Raising That The Solicitor For The Other Party Has A Conflict Of Interest And Should Be Restrained From Acting and Family Law Legislative Reform and Case Update.

Dr Megan Morris
Dr Megan Morris is a registered psychologist (MAPS), originally from Brisbane and has spent more than 10 years residing overseas in Thailand and Vanuatu where she worked in voluntary and non- voluntary roles in psychological support and education. On her return to Australia in 2006, Megan became an accredited Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner, and worked with separated families providing family mediation for resolving separated parents disputes in parenting and financial matters. She also worked for the federal government funded Family Relationship Centers, Relationships Australia Queensland (RAQ) and the National Telephone Dispute Resolution Service providing mediation. From 2010, Megan was the coordinator/manager of the Australian research project, “Outcomes for Separated Families” a collaborative project conducted by The University of Queensland (School of Psychology) in collaboration with RAQ and funded by the Australian Research Council. In 2016 Megan completed her PhD from the University of Queensland with her research focused on understanding separated families in conflict and measuring their mediation outcomes. In 2010, she began writing family reports and providing social assessments for families involved in family court, children’s court and federal circuit court matters. She is an Honorary Lecturer at the University of Queensland, a full member of the Australian Psychological Society, the Queensland Child Protection Practitioners Association, and the Family Law Practitioners Association and is interested in improving the lifestyle of members of high conflict families and in particular the children of high conflict parenting disputes. Megan is a private consultant based in Brisbane who provides psychological support to individuals and families, mediation for family issues, and family reports and assessments for family law matters.

Alison Ross
Alison Ross specialises in complex property matters and other financial matters arising from relationship breakdowns. She has worked exclusively in family law since 1996 and has extensive experience in both matrimonial and de facto relationship law. Alison's expertise includes advising on international family law matters, both financial matters and those relating to children, including relocation and child abduction. An Accredited Family Law Specialist, Alison is the immediate past Chair of the Queensland Law Society's Family Law Committee. She is a member of the Queensland Law Society Continuing Professional Development Committee. She is also a member of the Family Law Practitioners' Association, the Law Council of Australia's Family Law Section, the Child Protection Practitioners' Association of Queensland and Queensland Collaborative Law. Alison has been ranked a leading lawyer in Doyles Guide to Leading Family and Divorce Lawyers - Brisbane since 2012.

Stacey Percival
Stacey is a Senior Associate in the HopgoodGanim Family and Relationship Law practice and acts for families and private individuals in the preparation of financial agreements, negotiation of parenting, spousal maintenance, property settlements and litigation. Stacey has a particular interest in the treatment of complex entity structures on property settlement. Having previously worked in HopgoodGanim’s Private Enterprise practice, Stacey draws on her unique understanding of her clients’ complex businesses and structures in their family law matters.

Jane FitzGerald
Jane FitzGerald has been a barrister at the private Bar in Queensland since 2009. Prior to coming to the Bar, she was admitted as a solicitor for 10 years specialising in litigation. She has a commercial practice at the Bar which encompasses contract, corporate, property, medical negligence, personal injury, judicial review, insurance and building and construction disputes. In addition to her practice as a barrister, Jane also teaches and provides communication consulting services both in Australia and overseas. She consults to Queensland Bar Practice Course, the College of Law, the National Institute of Trial Advocacy (USA) and other firms, groups and individuals offering communications advice and workshops. She completed teacher training with NITA in 2009 and achieved her Advocate and Master Advocate Designation from NITA in 2011. In essence, Jane provides consulting services to lawyers on how to deliver an argument, bringing her experience as a barrister but also as a former professional actor when working with her clients.

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190 Elizabeth St
Brisbane City
Brisbane 4000
QLD
Australia

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Issues covered include: case update, legislation update, criminal injuries, impairment assessment, appeals to District Court

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Issues covered include: pre-accident risk assessment, workplace incidents, WHS litigation, pleas, defended hearings

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Issues covered include: incident management, reportable conduct scheme, complaint, workplace investigation, ill and injured staff, medical certificates

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Issues covered include: warranties, indemnities, insurance, M&A transactions

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Issues covered include: strata, short stay, body corporate, foreign investors, duty, CGT, interim planning decisions, administrative law rulings

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Issues covered include: privilege, waiver, the Harman Obligation, advocacy

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Issues covered include: blended families, second spouses, superannuation, case update

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Issues covered include: law making process, new laws, amendments, legislative drafting process, parliamentary bills, delegated legislation, tabling of documents, public interest immunity, PII, royal commissions, judicial inquiries, parliamentary inquiries, parliamentary privilege, executive privilege, parliamentary procedure, powers of parliament, inquiry powers, public sector

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Issues covered include: inherent risks of treatment, breach of duty and causation, delay, misdiagnosis, failure to diagnose, euthanasia, medical products, product liability, class actions, regulatory matters

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Issues covered include: Guardianship division, VCAT, moral duty, financial elder abuse, ethics, ethical considerations

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Issues covered include: discretionary trusts, trust and company law, tax implications for property settlements, financial documents

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Issues covered include: estate planning and succession, taxation, superannuation, Division 7A issues, testamentary trusts, blended families, foreign clients and assets, small businesses, aged care issues, executor risks

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Issues covered include: trusts, CGT concession, ATO rulings, discretionary trusts, vesting, winding up a trust

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Issues covered include: employment termination, contractors, single touch payroll, superannuation guarantee, payroll tax, FBT, expatriate tax overview, underpayment of wages, accessorial liability under the Fair Work Act

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Issues covered include: ALRC, discovery, financial proceedings, disclosure, companies, trusts, partnerships, deceased estate, alternative, restorative justice, mediation, mediator, successful family law practice, costs, billing, growth and development, domestic violence, family violence, trauma, protection orders, parenting orders, evidentiary rules, affidavits, parental alienation, ethics, ethical dilemmas

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Issues covered include: consumer data right, consumer law, ACCC, penalties, Royal Commission into the Financial Sector, employment law, mental health, whistleblowing, regulatory compliance

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Issues covered include: Consumer law, ACCC, consumer data right, ICT, IT contracts, privacy, employment, mental health, workplace investigation, unconscious bias

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Issues covered include: Consumer data right, big data, privacy, mandatory data breach reporting, GDPR, Banking Royal Commission, ACCC, consumer law, ACL, corporate social responsibility, modern slavery, ethics, mental health, practice management, workplace investigation

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Issues covered include: admissibility, advanced rulings, expert evidence, contracts, deeds, Royal Commissions, compulsory examinations, privilege, waiver, advocacy, interlocutory & urgent applications

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Issues covered include: Retail shop lease dispute, tenant, landlord, Retail Leases Act, QCAT, retail tenancy disputes, retail leasing, mediation, leasing disputes, combustible cladding, asbestos, tax, fitouts, depreciation, lease incentives, GST, commercial tenancies, market overview.

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In its 6th year, the Geelong 10 points in One day program offers insights from the industry front line practitioners. You don't have to travel to the CBD to gain updates of current topics and gain your compulsory CPD units. Attend the full program or choose the sessions most relevant to your practice.

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Issues covered include: Win and Retain more Clients, Stress Management, Privileged Evidence and Avoiding Inadvertent Waiver, Contract Disputes and Settlement of Litigation, Exclusion, Indemnity and Insurance Clauses, Insolvency Law Reform, Post-employment restraints, Property, Retail and Commercial Leasing.

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The vast majority of businesses in Australia are small businesses, so you better be prepared to provide up to date and expert advice when a small business client comes to you for help. That means being across the game changing developments stemming from the budget, the election and the Banking Royal Commission. Eleven experts working on small business advisory will give you the latest updates and cutting edge strategies on all of the key issues your small business clients will expect you to know.

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Issues covered include: immigration for business and investors, foreign investment, non-residents doing business, non-residents doing family business, owning a property, anti-money laundering, tax considerations and non-residents, estate planning, administration and sucession for migrations and foreign investors

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Issues covered include: exceeding expectations, plain English techniques, business acumen, resilience and wellbeing

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Issues covered include: Narcotic Drugs Act 1967, Medico Legal aspects, in-house counsel perspective, Courts, prescribing in the clinical setting

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Issues covered include: workplace discrimination, religious organisations, estate planning, crime, parenting, child support, parental rights

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Issues covered include: Technology, Blockchain, WayBack Evidence and Domain names, Directors liability, Quality and financial control, Ethics, manner of manufacture, Infringement, latests cases and developments.

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Issues covered include: Family court proceedings, Subpoena, Separation, Divorce, Family violence, Litigation, Evidence, New Redress Scheme, Child Safety Obligations, Royal Commission, Civil Claims for Institutional Abuse, Criminal Liability and Sexual Abuse, Child Safe Standards.

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Issues covered include: Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority (FASEA) Update, TBAR, Royal Commission, Pension options, SMSF Deed, Superannuation contributions, non-concessional contributions, Transfer Balance Account, Super Death Benefits, Binding death benefit nominations, blended families, incapacity.

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Issues covered include: Enterprise value, Tax strategies, Pre-Sale Restructuring, Selling Business with Property, CGT exemptions, Concessions, Property structure, Business valuation methodologies, Preparing a Business for Sale, Equity transfer to family, Third party sale, tangible and intangible assets, Intellectual Property, Privacy and Data Protection, M & A Merger and Acquisition.

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2019 is a significant year for the retirement village and aged care sectors. The Royal Commission is shaking up the industry, elder abuse and tax law are changing, and there are big shifts in integration and funding issues. Plus the many risks in estate planning, capacity, technology and more. With so much unrest in the sector it’s now more crucial than ever to stay up to date with the latest developments. Equip yourself with the strategies necessary to handle these issues for you client or organisation.

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Issues covered include: Tenancy, tenants, franchise lesing, office sharing, subleases, Dispustes, Variation, Surrender provisions and Termination of Leases, remedies, defaults and damages, co-tenancy, covenants, breaches, insolvency, financial issues and risk, Outgoings, Guarantees, Insurance, Indemnities, Case and Legislative Update.

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Issues covered include: Supreme Court of New South Wales, Service of Notices in Probate, Affidavit of Service, Grants of Probate and Administration, Letters of administration on intestacy, Special and limited grants, Taxation, executor and trustees, stamp duty, foregin estate, income tax, Probate case update decisions.

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Issues covered include: Sexual Harassment, Bullying and Work Safety Claims by Independent Contractors, Fair Work Act and Work Health and Safety Act, Uber and the Point to Point Transport Industry, Sham contracting, who is a contractor, who is an employee.

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Issues covered include: Finance and Property proceedings, Dispute Resolution, Pre-nuptial and nuptial agreements, Family Law Settlements, Transfer of tax debt, Bankruptcy, Spouse Maintenance orders variation, post-separation contributions, Accrued Jurisdiction of the Family Court, Contravention applications, Arbitration.

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Issues covered include: National Redress Scheme, Vicarious Liability in Civil Liability Amendment (Organisational Child Abuse Liability) Act, Expert evidence, Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, Medico-Legal.

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Issues covered include: Admissibility of expert evidence, High Court and Court of Criminal Appeal, Evidence Act, Admitted facts, Uncontested facts, Disclosure and Privilege, Tendency and Coincidence Evidence.

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Issues covered include: Statutory unconscionable conduct, Indemnities, Contract drafting, Incorporation of Contractual Terms, case law, Jeffrey Goldberger, Special Counsel, Norton Rose Fulbright.

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Issues covered include: Proposed Acquisition Notice, Powers of resumption, Assessments, Instructing Experts and Maximising Expert Evidence, Land valuation assessment and methods, partial acquistion, business valuation and compensation.

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Issues covered include: Phoenix business activities, tax case update, historical loans, unpaid present entitlements, small business restructuring, practical tax solutions for small business

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Issues covered include: wealth accumulation, property tax, insurance payment, cryptocurrency, client's marriage, separations, family and accounting, succession and estate plannning

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Issues covered include: intent, purpose, context and structure, practical problem solving, judicial review, repeal of statute

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Analyse decision making and reason writing and then work through an in depth, interactive workshop where the presenters will examine, dissect and reconstruct a decision in this unique, can’t-miss workshop.

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Issues covered include: 'Ultimate Consumer' test, heads of agreement, guarantees, assignment, special tenancy arragement, lease documents interpretation, breaches of lease, termination

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Facing family law issues in your school? We have a step by step guide to guide you. Dealing with child safety risks? We’re offering real world guidance from the legal, law enforcement and principal perspectives. Want all your questions answered? Our interactive panels are tailor made for you. And that’s just the start of what you’ll gain from this unique, can’t miss event.

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Issues covered include: capacity, unconscionable conduct, sexual issues, privacy, data security, convergence and seniors living

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Issues covered include: three way examination, inspections, defaults and penalties, case law

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Issues covered include: Trademarks, patents, parallel imports, protection of IP in China, policy register for IP Australia, patent remedies, patent drafting,

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Issues covered include: terrorism offences in Australia, prosecuting home grown terror plots, trends in terrorism, human exploitation

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Keep yourself updated on the psychology and the legal trends in psychological and psychiatric injury claims, including bystander PTSD claims. With claims on the rise, understanding both the medicine and the law is essential for all practitioners working in this area. Straddling the medical and legal worlds, this seminar offers a better understanding of how medical professions form their assessments and evaluate claims, and you will gain an update on the Work Accident and TAC claims.

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Issues covered include: third parties in family law disputes, problem solving, property settlements, family violence amendments, alternate dispute resolution

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Issues covered include: serving of notices in different types of probate proceedings, digital assets and the afterlife, probate litigation

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Issues covered include: Parents, legal disasters, Privacy law, mental and physical health of staff, misconduct, disability and discrimination obligations, race, sex and gender identity, children with physical and learning disabilities

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