How to’ Skills for Litigators - Particulars in Pleading: A Guide to Principle and Strategy
OND233N552
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD hour in Professional Skills
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
Professional Skills
10.00am to 11.00am Particulars in Pleading: A Guide to Principle and Strategy
- ‘Material facts’, ‘Particulars’, ‘Evidence’; where is the line, and does it matter?
- The purpose of particulars
- The scope and limits of the requirement to provide particulars
- Sending (and responding to) informal requests for particulars: practice and strategy
- Court applications for further particulars; grounds, defence, process, timing, and remedies
- Critical strategic dilemmas in pressing for particulars
Presented by Hugh Stowe, Barrister, 5 Wentworth Chambers
Presenters
Hugh Stowe
Hugh Stowe is a member of 5th Floor Wentworth Chambers, and has been at the bar for 10 years. He practices in equity and commercial litigation, with specialization in insolvency and corporations law matters. He has an undergraduate degree from Sydney University, and a Master of Laws from Cambridge. Before coming to the Bar, he practiced at Freehills and Mallesons, and was the Associate to the Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Australia. He has also lectured in law in the University of Durham, in the UK, in subjects including administrative law. While at the Bar, he served for 3 years as legal adviser of the Disciplinary Tribunal of the ASX, in which capacity he sat in on disciplinary proceedings before that Tribunal. He has also served for 4 years on a Professional Conduct Committee at the Bar, being a committee involved in disciplinary proceedings against barristers. Has written papers and delivered seminars on various topics, including bias, expert evidence, legal professional privilege, corporations law, the ethics of witness preparation, restraint of trade.