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Issues covered include: client legal privilege, avoiding waiver, inadvertent waiver, lay witness statements, traditional mediation, hybrid mediation, ADR, admissible expert evidence, persuasive expert evidence, legal ethics, ethical duties, risk management, written advocacy, written submissions, improve your advocacy
A stellar line-up of some of Adelaide’s finest litigators spend a morning exploring practical insights through an intensive evidence masterclass that will unlock the strategies necessary to raise your litigation skills to their peak. Then stay for the afternoon session where you can gain your CPD required units through carefully curated sessions designed specifically with the litigator in mind.
Attend and earn 7 CPD units including:
1 unit in Practical Legal Ethics
1 unit in Practice Management or Business Skills
5 units in Professional Skills
This conference was recorded in SA on 14 March 2019
Evidence Masterclass
Chair: Kristie Molloy, Barrister, Legoe Chambers
9.00am to 10.00am: Protecting Client Legal Privilege and Avoiding Inadvertent Waiver
Presented by Matthew Selley, Partner, Iles Selley Lawyers; Preeminent Commercial Litigation and Dispute Resolution Lawyer, Doyle’s Guide 2018
10.00am to 11.00am: 5 Golden Rules of Lay Witness Statements
Presented by Paul Bullock, Barrister, Jeffcott Chambers
11.00am to 11.15am Morning Tea
11.15am to 12.15pm: Evidential Issues in Traditional and Hybrid Mediations: Tips and Traps for your Practice
Presented Stephen Walsh QC, Edmund Barton Chambers
12.15pm to 1.15pm: Admissible and Persuasive Expert Evidence: Identifying Problem Areas
Prepared by Richard Ross-Smith, Barrister, Anthony Mason Chambers
Presented by Robert A Cameron, Barrister, Bar Chambers
1.05pm to 1.15pm Final Q&A and Closing Comments by the Chair
CPD Required Units for Litigators
Chair: Wendy Jones, Partner – Commercial Litigation, Fisher Jeffries; Recommended Commercial Litigation & Dispute Resolution Lawyer, Doyle’s Guide, 2018
Practical Legal Ethics
2.00pm to 3.00pm: Doing the Right Thing: Legal Ethics, Now and Into the Future
Presented by Professor Neville Rochow SC, Barrister and Associate Professor of Law, Adelaide Law School (Adjunct)
Practice Management or Business Skills
3.00pm to 4.00pm: Risk Management in a Litigation Practice
Presented by James Marsh, Partner – Commercial Litigation, Fisher Jeffries; Recommended Commercial Litigation & Dispute Resolution Lawyer, Doyle’s Guide 2018
4.00pm to 4.15pm Afternoon Tea
Professional Skills
4.15pm to 5.15pm: Persuasive Written Advocacy: Tips to Adopt, Traps to Avoid
Presented by Robert A Cameron, Barrister, Bar Chambers