Abuse Law Symposium - Liability, Legal Capacity, Appellate Case Review and Young Offenders and Abuse : Appellate Case Update from Around Australia
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Description
Attend and earn 0.5 CPD hour in Substantive Law
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
4.30pm to 5.15pm Appellate Case Update from Around Australia
Examine the latest Court of Appeal decisions on important legal principles affecting civil claims for historical abuse.
Presented by Luke Geary, Partner, Mills Oakley
Presenters
Luke Geary
Luke is a Partner in the Mills Oakley Not-For-Profit & Social Enterprise team in Brisbane and has extensive experience in the Not-For-Profit sector. Luke has a particular expertise assisting institutions in responding to claims of child sexual abuse under a restorative justice framework and in accordance with best practice principles identified by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. In this regard, Luke appeared as a legal advisor in a number of public hearings before the Royal Commission, he participated in many of the Royal Commission’s roundtables (both public and private) for the development of policy positions and has appeared before the Australian Senate Committee and worked with the Commonwealth Redress Taskforce in its design of the National Redress Bill (which is anticipated to provide assistance in justice outcomes for approximately 60,000 Australians). Luke is regularly briefed by major institutions in the most sensitive and significant common law abuse claims and assists in their delicate resolution in a trauma-informed way. Additionally, Luke acts for survivors of abuse in claims against State government institutions, assisting them to obtain either common law or redress justice outcomes compassionately and giving them assistance in finding healing in their lives.