10 Points In One Day
Make the most of your last chance to earn CPD this year by hearing from an expert panel as they divulge all the information and skills necessary to grow your knowledge and practice. Featuring 10 timely topics hand-picked to cover some of the most crucial areas in law in 2023. Attend the full day and complete your CPD for the year in one go or just register for the sessions that interest you. Attend in person or online & claim all your points. 233W30
Description
Attend and earn 10 CPD Points Including:
7 points in Competency Area 4: Substantive Law
1 point in Competency Area 1: Practice Management
1 point in Competency Area 2: Professional Skills
1 point in Competency Area 3: Ethics & Professional Responsibility
This program is based on WA legislation
Session 1
Commercial and Employment Law Update for All Lawyers
Chair: Laurence Iffla, Partner, Iffla Wade
7.30am to 8.30am Trusts Deeds: Drafting, Varying and Getting it Right
Presented by Ken Robson, Barrister, Paper Prepared by Michael Bennett CTA, Barrister, Thirteen Wentworth Chambers
8.30am to 9.30am Insolvency Update
Explore the latest developments, trends and cases impacting insolvency, your clients and your practice.
Presented by James Scovell, Barrister, Francis Burt Chambers
9.30am to 10.30am Employment Law Roundup
- Psycho-social hazards at work; through a safety framework
- Respect@Work legislative reforms
- Reforms to enterprise bargaining
- Underpayments: the approach of FWO
Presented by Nick Ellery, Barrister, Francis Burt Chambers
Session 2
Ethics, Professional Skills & Practice Management for All Lawyers
Chair: Nicholas Murfett, Director, Murfett Group
Competency Area 1: Practice Management
10.45am to 11.45am Managing Health & Safety Risks in the Evolving Workplace
This session will cover an insightful overview of:
- The WHS legal framework and recent case law
- Focus areas, trends and developments including:
- A spotlight on certain industries and sectors (including professional services)
- The focus on mental health and psychosocial risks, and
- The risks associated with flexible and hybrid ways of working
- Best practice tips for ensuring compliance and key take-away messages
Presented by Ian Bennett, Partner, Sparke Helmore Lawyers
Competency Area 2: Professional Skills
11.45am to 12.45pm How to Use Technologies to Best Increase Efficiency and Gain Valuable Time Savings
- The use of dictation, including by using voice recognition software for a laptop, desktop or phone
- Using templates and autotext on Outlook
- How best to make use of time travelling to and from court and clients
- Using offshore transcription effectively for meetings and telephone calls with clients
Presented by Richard Graham, Principal, Vogt Graham Lawyers
Competency Area 3: Ethics & Professional Responsibility
12.45pm to 1.45pm Ethical Issues Related to Costs
- Consider the importance of valid costs agreements and good disclosure in maintaining your ethical obligations
- What you need to do to ensure your practice is compliant across:
- Costs disclosure
- Costs agreements
- Billing
- Assessing solicitor and client costs
- Update on other recent ethical considerations and complaints against lawyers
Presented by Amy Pascoe, Legal Practitioner Director, Pascoe Legal
Session 3
Property, Wills, Contracts and Family Roundup for All Lawyers
Chair: Rein Squires, Barrister, Francis Burt Chambers
2.15pm to 3.15pm Contract Law Recent Case Update
Consider recent High Court and Court of Appeal cases including:
- Construction of contracts by a court to determine the objective meaning: principles and front end drafting implications
- Approach by a court to gap filling by implying terms
- When is a contract taken to be abandoned?
- When is a contract taken to be frustrated?
Presented by Mark Holler, Barrister, Francis Burt Chambers
3.15 pm to 4.15pm Property Law Update
A survey of the notable appellate decisions concerning real property law over the past 12 months including:
- Frustration and abandonment of agreement for lease
- Restitution of mistaken payments of outgoings
- Damages for costs of mitigating loss
- Removal of caveats
Presented by Bryden Dalitz, Barrister, Francis Burt Chambers
4.14pm to 4.30pm Afternoon Tea
4.30pm to 5.30pm Recent Developments in Succession Law
Gain insights into some of the key decisions and latest cases in Succession Law over the last 12-months. Walk away with critical learnings to put into practice.
Presented by Dr David Cox, Barrister and Notary Public, Francis Burt Chambers
5.30pm to 6.30pm Family Law Roundup
- Cross-vesting and accrued jurisdiction- filing in the right court
- Third parties (the powers of the Family Court)
- S106B: the power to set aside transactions
- Subpoenas
Presented by Kim Morrison, Consultant, O’Sullivan Davies Lawyers; Accredited Specialist in Family Law and Nicola Jansen, Consultant, O’Sullivan Davies Lawyers, Accredited Specialist in Family Law
Presenters
Laurence Iffla
Laurence (Larry) Iffla is a partner of Iffla Wade and was formerly a partner of Mallesons Stephen Jaques (now King & Wood Mallesons) where he was head of the Perth property practice. Larry has over 35 years' experience in commercial property and development matters, stamp & transfer duty and other property related tax advice, as well as personal estate planning for select clients. He also works in corporate and commercial law, particularly involving the structuring of business and property acquisitions. Larry was identified as a preeminent lawyer in Doyle's Guide to the Legal Profession - Leading Property & Real Estate Lawyers WA in 2011.
Ken Robson
Ken Robson has been In House Counsel at various listed and unlisted companies and is a member of the WA Bar Association. He was at Francis Burt Chambers for 20 years. Prior to coming to the Bar he was the Associate to Sir Francis Burt (former Chief Justice of WA) and a solicitor at Freehills, Clayton Utz, and Jackson McDonald and the Commonwealth DPP. He has been an Executive Chairman, MD and Non Executive Director of various listed mining and pharmaceutical companies. He was a director of Central Rand Gold (listed in South Africa and London) and White Rivers Exploration (South Africa, unlisted). Ken is involved in several unlisted companies. He is the author of Robson's Annotated Corporations Act. He has lectured or tutored in law at various Universities.
James Scovell
James Scovell's proven expertise and litigation skills are used in conjunction with a pragmatic commercial approach to achieve his instructor's and client's desired outcomes and business needs. James has acted for a broad range of clients, including large ASX listed entities, insolvency practitioners and national lending institutions, in relation to litigation matters in all jurisdictions. In the often challenging role of recovering funds for creditors (including lenders), James' litigation skills are exemplary, while his highly proficient negotiation skills readily come to play when seeking to resolve matters commercially and without the need for litigation. With his widespread insolvency and reconstruction experience, clients and instructors call on James for all aspects of corporate and personal external administration.
Nick Ellery
With over 25 years of experience, Nicholas is trusted by senior executives and boards of leading businesses to get to the heart of any workforce issue and to deliver a clear solution. He works with clients on all aspects labour relations strategy, litigation concerning; employment, policy and compliance, discrimination, industrial disputes, and health and safety issues. Nicholas works with leading industries in WA with large and complex workforces; maritime, oil and gas, construction and mining. At the forefront of legal employment issues Nicholas regularly provides training, workshops and news commentary. Nicholas is a member of the Board of Corrs Chambers Westgarth, and a national committee member at the Australian Labour Law Association.
Nicholas Murfett
During the past 25 years of legal practice, Nick Murfett has acquired experience in several areas. In 1990 he left practice in a large firm to establish the sole practice 'Murfett & Co' in West Perth. The firm's main practice areas were insolvency, commercial litigation and general commercial. Nick ran the firm and its successor Murfett Legal until December 2008 when he left full time legal practice. Nick has a keen interest in business and commerce and has been involved in the management of several businesses in the areas of farming, aviation, property development, debt collection, hospitality and charities. Despite varied experience in litigation, Nick has a strong interest in mediation and alternative dispute resolution for clients who seek to resolve disputes without litigation. He is a mediator accredited with LEADR, a Professional and Executive Coach - accredited by Open Up Communication Pty Ltd (Sydney) and is accredited in several psycho-therapy modalities. In 2008 Nick left full time legal practice to commence consulting in professional and executive coaching, workshop and seminar facilitation and corporate consulting. Nick has a keen interest in the welfare of professional and business people.
Ian Bennett
Ian Bennett is an experienced workplace lawyer specialising in employee relations, work health and safety (WHS) and coronial inquests. He provides practical and pragmatic advice to help employers effectively manage complex legal issues arising in the workplace with strategies that look at the bigger picture and mitigate potential flow-on effects (such as public relations, commercial arrangements, insurance and regulatory compliance). Because of his broad practice and successful completion of numerous in-house secondment roles, Ian has a diverse client base spanning government (local, state and Commonwealth), statutory corporations and authorities as well as across all industries in the private sector. Ian is a regular contributor to Sparke Helmore’s Workplace publications and pro-bono programs and is also a volunteer director of a metropolitan Community Legal Centre.
Richard Graham
Richard Graham is a partner at Vogt Graham Lawyers. He specialises in civil litigation, especially defamation, guardianship and administration in SAT, civil debt recovery and legal costs disputes. He also undertakes estates and probate matters. He is the author of Civil Procedure WA Magistrates Court, known as "The Magistrates Court Red Book". Richard is a member of 2 committees at the Law Society of WA. These are the Courts Committee and the Costs Committee.
Amy Pascoe
Amy Pascoe is one of Western Australia’s leading costs practitioners, having appeared in costs matters in most jurisdictions in WA both on a solicitor/client and party/party basis. Amy has also provided assistance and advice in complex domestic and International Arbitrations and has provided expert evidence in Federal Court costs matters. In 2021 Amy was elected to the Legal Practice Board, and since that time has served on the Professional Affairs Committee, the Admissions and Registrations Committee and the Legal Services and Complaints Committee. She has also been a member of the Law Society’s Costs Committee since 2016 and is at present, the Deputy Convenor of that Committee. Amy is the Legal Practitioner Director of Pascoe Legal, a firm practising within the exclusive area of the law of costs.
Rein Squires
Rein is a commercial barrister with experience in the areas of contract law, property rights, guardianship and administration matters and the administration of trusts and deceased estates. Rein represents clients in private mediations and in legal proceedings, the latter most often conducted in the District and Supreme Courts of Western Australia and on occasion the State Administrative Tribunal, with a focus on identifying and pursuing the most efficient pathway towards a satisfactory resolution. Rein is known for being pragmatic and commercial in his approach and advice. Prior to joining the bar Rein was a principal of a law firm based in West Perth, practicing in the above areas to serve a broad range of private clients, small-to-medium size private businesses and private farming clients.
Mark Holler
Mark Holler is an effective trial and appellate advocate with more than 25 years litigation experience. Mark is at the independent bar working from Francis Burt Chambers. He practices mainly in the Supreme Court and the Federal Court. He has worked in Perth as a lawyer and in Sydney as a merchant banker and corporate adviser. Particular areas of interest are strategic advice and persuasive advocacy at trial and appellate level in corporate and commercial matters.
Bryden Dalitz
Bryden practises in commercial dispute resolution and public law. He has advised and appeared in matters before the Supreme Court, District Court, Magistrates Court, State Administrative Tribunal, and Mining Warden. These matters include: actions for breach of contract, misleading conduct, breach of fiduciary duties, and negligence; applications for judicial review in the Supreme Court; and objection, forfeiture, and restoration proceedings before the Mining Warden. Bryden has acted for clients in various industries, including mining, construction, property development, and transport. Bryden’s written work is concise, plain, and modern. His advocacy is considered and direct. Before joining the Bar, Bryden was a Senior Associate at the Perth and London offices of DLA Piper. Bryden is a member of the RSPCA’s pro bono legal panel. He has prosecuted animal cruelty offences for the RSPCA.
Dr David Cox
For the last 15 years as a solicitor, David Cox has specialised in advising clients on the protection, commercialisation and enforcement of the full spectrum of intangible rights, including confidentiality and other related rights such as privacy. Now at the Bar, David leverages this wealth of experience to develop innovative and often quite cost-effective strategies to protect, enhance and draw value from intangible asset portfolios. David is a former honorary fellow at the School of Law at the University of Western Australia, and between 2014 and 2020 he was Chairman of the Law Reform Commission of Western Australia.
Kim Morrison
For Kim Morrison, the greatest reward is knowing her work means that a child will have a safe and meaningful relationship with their parent. Kim has been an accredited family law specialist since 2017. Her strong technical knowledge of the law enables her to effectively help families plan and move forward with their lives after separation. She likes the interrelationship between family law and other types of law including property, trusts, commercial and criminal law. The mental challenge of maintaining such breadth of legal knowledge, and the need to understand and work within interpersonal relationships and family dynamics, motivates her to continue learning. It comes as second nature to Kim to find the fine balance between vigorous representation and maintaining personal relationships to allow parties to reach a negotiated settlement for the benefit of the family. Her strategic thinking enables her to plan cases with the big picture front of mind, always with the end goal in sight. Assisting clients to finalise their relationship with dignity and respect, and in a cost effect manner, generates enormous job satisfaction for Kim. Kim started her legal career in 2004 at the Housing Industry Association in the IR/Legal department. In 2006 while completing her studies, Kim worked as a family law / litigation paralegal and legal assistant in a mid-tier firm in Brisbane. In 2008, Kim graduated from the Queensland University of Technology with a double degree of Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Business (International Business), and was admitted to the Supreme Court of Queensland in 2009. Kim also holds a Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice, and Graduate Certificate in Applied Family Law, both from College of Law. She is a member of Law Society of Western Australia and sits on the Accreditation Committee, which administers the specialist accreditation program in Western Australia. Kim was elected as a committee member of the Family Law Practitioners Association of Western Australia in 2021. Outside of the office, Kim enjoys time at the beach, travelling, Thai boxing, scuba diving and being in the sunshine.
Nicola Jansen
Nicola was admitted as a lawyer in 2011 and has practised family law exclusively ever since. In 2017, Nicola completed Family Law Accreditation exams making her one of only approximately 50 practitioners in Western Australia recognised by the Law Societies of all States as having specialist knowledge in family law. Further, Nicola has armed herself with a breadth and depth of knowledge required to be a good family lawyer, including aspects of commercial law, banking and finance (both personal and commercial), accounting and some tax, as well as non-legal knowledge involving social science and psychology.
For Nicola, working to resolve disputes is a very satisfying problem-solving mission where the end result is helping someone who may not have been able to reach a resolution otherwise. According to her clients, two of Nicola’s most valuable skills are communication and her straight-shooting advice. She considers that her primary function is to resolve a matter in favourable terms and ethically, while minimising costs and stress for her clients. She achieves this by clearly identifying options and making recommendations based on likely Court outcomes along with other considerations, and having a clear plan from the outset.
Venue
Parmelia Hilton
Level 1, Meeting Room, 14 Mill Street
Perth 6000
WA
Australia
Directions
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Train Stations - The Esplanade Station
Bus Interchange - St Georges Terrace Cloisters Green
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