10 Points in One Day - LAST CHANCE
Have you left your CPD points to the last minute? Not an issue, we have you covered. 12 areas of law and 10 hours of CPD all in one day including the mandated core areas. You will be updated on the current issues no matter what walks through the door plus be CPD compliant. All facilitated by absolute experts in their areas of law. Attend the whole day or just the session that you need. 243V29
Description
Attend and earn 10 CPD units including:
7 units in Substantive Law
1 unit in Ethics & Professional Responsibility
1 unit in Professional Skills
1 unit in Practice Management and Business Skills
This program is based on VIC legislation
Session 1
Wills and Property Law Updater
Chair: Reegan Grayson Morison, Barrister, Lonsdale Chambers
7.30am to 8.15am Tax and Real Property
- Income tax, CGT and GST
- Subdivisions
- Property development
- Business property
Presented by Adam Craig, Barrister
8.15am to 9.00am Property Law Update
Explore recent, significant cases and developments in property law including how the principles can be applied to your clients and your matters.
Presented by Georgina Costello KC, List G Barristers
9.00am to 9.45am Superannuation as Part of the Succession Plan
Superannuation is a key part of the succession plan, and one where there are increasing disputes. Navigate the important issues to be considered:
- Making sure superannuation is covered off in the succession plan
- Binding v non binding death benefit nominations
- Pensions
- Transfer balance caps
- Managing conflict with death benefits
- Considering control of SMSFs
- Recent issues with death benefit nominations
Presented by William Moore, Partner, Hall & Willcox, Accredited Specialist in Wills and Estates, TEP
9.45am to 10.30am Wills and Estates Case Update and their Implications
A summary of recent important wills, estates and trusts cases and their implications for practitioners.
Presented by Daniela Pavlovic, Principal, Harwood Andrews
10.30am to 10.45am Morning Tea Break
Session 2
Contracts, Business, Insolvency and Privacy Law Unpacked
Chair: Ric Birkett, Principal Lawyer, Aiken Partners
10.45am to 11.30am Unfair Contracts: Commercial Perspectives and Considerations in Disputes
- Setting out the legislative and legal framework governing unfair contracts
- Identifying unfair contract terms, what constitutes unfairness, and terms commonly determined to be ‘unfair’
- Examining relationships between contracting parties and other circumstances that may give rise to unfairness, including review of relevant cases
- Exploring the consequences of unfair contract terms and available remedies
Presented by Simon Jay, Partner and Rebecca Durso, Associate Cornwalls
11.30am to 12.15pm Franchisees in Crisis
- Why it happens?
- How franchisors can minimise the risk
- How franchisees can minimise the risk
- Franchising Code of Conduct and other relevant laws
- What franchisors can do
- What franchisees can do
Presented by Andrea Pane, Director and Principal – ACP Lawyers Pty Ltd
12.15pm to 1.05pm Tax Considerations on an Exit: Key Tax Risks and Considerations when Acting on the Sale of a Business
- Asset sale vs share sale
- Identifying what is being sold: different types of assets, shares, and how they are treated for tax purposes
- Transfer of depreciable assets and trading stock
- Dealing with employee share scheme interests on issue
- CGT considerations, including earnouts, small business capital gains tax concessions and rollovers
- Looking forward to an exit – how can I plan for the end, at the beginning?
Presented by Daniel Kornberg, Senior Associate, MinterEllison
1.05pm to 1.35pm Lunch Break
1.35pm to 2.25pm Insolvency Law for All
Focus on developments in insolvency law specifically on creditor driven bankruptcy and winding up proceedings.
Presented by John Dunne, Principal, John Dunne & Associates
2.25pm to 3.15pm Understanding the Obligations of Privacy, Confidentiality and Cyber Security: Statutory and Common Law
Examine the responsibilities imposed on legal persons by statute, common law and equity and how persons or entities not caught by the legislative scheme still have privacy and confidentiality obligations.
- Legislative schemes
- Privacy Act 1988 and key reform proposals
- State privacy and data protection regimes
- Listening Devices Act
- Common law and equitable obligations and causes of action
- Breach of confidence
- Breach of contract infringement of Australian Consumer Law
- Infringement of Australian Consumer Law
- Negligence?
- Cyber security obligations
- Intervention of threat actors - consequences
- Reasonableness of security measures in place
- Next trends: formulation and interpretation of commercial contracts
- Express or implied terms of data security
- Reasonableness of security measures in place
Presented by Michael Rivette, Barrister, Melbourne
3.15pm to 3.30pm Afternoon Tea Break
Session 3
Ethics, Professional Skills and Practice Management and Business Skills
Chair: Nina Hoang, Senior Associate – Workplace Relations, FCW Lawyers
Practice Management and Business Skills
3.30pm to 4.30pm Practice Management in 2024: Rights and Responsibilities
- The duty to make and maintain a psychologically healthy workplace
- Unconscious bias and the duty to address it
- Making an inclusive workplace for gender diverse employees
Presented by Joseph Kelly, Principal, Kelly Workplace Lawyers; Accredited Specialist in Workplace Relations
Professional Skills
4.30pm to 5.30pm Clearing the Gray Areas in Verification of Identity
- Fraud and verification of identity
- Professional liability
- Reasonable steps under 87A of the Transfer of Land Act 1958 (Vic)
- Verification of identity standard under s 106A(1)(f) of the Transfer of Land Act
Presented by Tasman Ash Fleming, Barrister & Accredited Mediator NMAS, Victorian Bar
Ethics & Professional Responsibility
5.30pm to 6.30pm Ethical Hard Places in Legal Practice
Examine ethical problems that arise in legal practice and what light experience can shine on the best road to take when difficult ethical decisions arise.
In conversation with Rabea Khan, Barrister, Greens List
Presenters
Ric Birkett
Ric is a principal lawyer in the Commercial and Property Section of Aitken Partners and has been in practice for over 25 years. His practice covers a broad range of corporate, commercial and property work in the commercial and not for profit sectors, including particular involvement in the aged care and retirement living industry (with recognition in the Health and Aged Care list in Doyle’s Guide). His work includes advising a range of clients in respect of governance, compliance, structuring and a range of commercial and property transactions including mergers and the purchase and sale of businesses and business interests.
Nina Hoang
A senior lawyer in the workplace relations team, Nina is an experienced employment advocate specialising in safety prosecution matters across the manufacturing, meat processing and education sectors. She is an active member of the Industrial Relations Society of Victoria. Prior to joining FCW lawyers, Nina worked for a large employer association defending Registered Clubs in all employment law-related matters.
Reegan Grayson Morison
Reegan has a general commercial law practice with a particular focus on matters involving trusts, equity and probate law as well as corporations and insolvency law. She has appeared led and unled in both Victorian state courts and Federal courts. Reegan was a member of the Victorian Bar Council in 2019-2020 (category C). She has been a a member of the New Barristers' Committee and the ADR Committee. She is currently a member of the Student Engagement Committee. Before joining the Bar, Reegan was the Senior Associate to the Honourable Justice McMillan at the Supreme Court of Victoria. Reegan sat in matters in the Trusts, Equity & Probate List where she supported her Honour on complex trust and equity matters. Prior to that, Reegan was the Principal Researcher for the Asian Law Centre (Japan Program) as well undertaking research at the Centre for Corporate Law and Securities Regulation at Melbourne Law School. Examples of her publications are listed on her Linkedin profile. Reegan holds a Masters of Law from the University of Melbourne where she also completed her Juris Doctor. Reegan is an Associate of the Asian Law Centre and also an Honourary Fellow of Melbourne Law School, co-teaching Insolvency Law in the Juris Doctor Program with Michael Gronow KC. In addition to her legal qualifications, Reegan holds a Bachelor of Arts with First Class Honours, majoring in Japanese and Politics, from the University of Queensland. She worked for the Japanese government (Kobe City) for 3 years and is fluent in Japanese.
Adam Craig
Adam practices in wills, trusts, equity, probate, tax, and property. He is briefed regularly in testator family maintenance (TFM) disputes in the County Court and the Supreme Court, and in equitable claims, where probate is contested, and in applications involving estate or trust administration. Adam also provides specialist advice in relation to the taxation of trusts and deceased estates.
Georgina Costello
Georgina Costello is a Melbourne barrister who appears and advises in cases in the areas of commercial and public law, including: commercial disputes; fraud cases; negligence claims; property law matters; migration cases and regulatory proceedings. Before coming to the Bar in 2003, Georgina was a solicitor at Mallesons Stephen Jaques (now King & Wood Mallesons) in property law. She is also admitted to the New York Bar and has worked in the United States as a litigator at New York law firm Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP, and as associate counsel to a panel led by U.S. economist Paul Volcker inquiring into fraud and corruption related issues at the World Bank in Washington DC.
William Moore
William Moore is a partner in the Private Clients team at Hall & Wilcox in Melbourne. He has over ten years' experience assisting clients to work through their succession planning, trust and estate planning. William is driven to achieve realistic outcomes for his clients in their personal and business succession planning, which can involve working through difficult and sensitive considerations, needing a personal touch and providing practical suggestions. He is widely regarded as a leading practitioner in the area of succession planning, trusts, estates and estate litigation and prides himself on giving practical advice and understanding the client's needs and business intimately to give them the best results. William assists a broad range of clients, from those with young families to some of Australia's largest family groups, as well as business owners and people moving towards retirement. This has provided William with practical insight into many issues, concerns and needs that arise at different stages of life. William is a recommended Wills & Estate Lawyer in Victoria in Doyles' Guide, a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP). He regularly publishes articles and presents for both the firm and professional bodies including Leo Cussen, The Tax Institute and Television Education Network.
Daniela Pavlovic
Daniela has extensive experience in the area of succession planning. She assists clients in preparing wills and powers of attorney, including complex wills such as testamentary trusts. She is also experienced in all aspects of estate administration. Her key areas of practice include estate planning (preparation of wills including testamentary trust wills), superannuation planning, powers of attorney, special disability trusts, VCAT administration and guardianship applications, probate applications and estate administration, disputed probate applications, disputed estates and survivorship applications.
Simon Jay
Simon’s experience as a commercial lawyer spans over 25 years. His practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and corporate transactions in the mid-market with particular emphasis on the technology sector. In the technology sector, Simon has extensive experience intender agreements for the provision of IT services to both the government and the private sectors;agreements for the development and deployment of software;software support and maintenance agreements;IT development and integration agreements;IT vendor access agreements;e-platform agreements; andsoftware escrow agreements and software licensing agreements. Simon was a Finalist – Commercial Team of the Year, Lawyers Weekly Australian Law Awards 2023
Rebecca Durso
Rebecca is a Corporate and Commercial lawyer who specialises interm sheets, heads of agreement and MOUs, subscription agreements, share purchase agreements, business and asset purchase agreements, shareholder agreements, drafting terms and conditions, wholesale managed investment schemes, corporate governance, and Australian Consumer Law. Rebecca was a Finalist – Commercial Team of the Year, Lawyers Weekly Australian Law Awards 2023.
Andrea Pane
Andrea Pane is director and principal of ACP Lawyers. Specialising in franchising for over 25 years, Andrea's primary focus has been in the franchising sector, advising and assisting clients across a broad range of industries in the areas of business expansion, protection of intellectual property, compliance with the Franchising Code of Conduct, competition and other relevant laws, business sales and acquisitions and other related contracts and arrangements. Andrea has been recognised as one of Australia's best lawyers for franchise law in the peer-reviewed Best Lawyers© in Australia, is an accredited mediator and is Chair of the LAWASIA Franchising Committee.
John Dunne
John Dunne was admitted as a lawyer in Victoria in 1980. He initially worked as a tax and commercial lawyer following articles, gradually moving into litigation from 1980 to 1982 at John Wilder-Darren Moses. In 1983 John commenced practice as an employee then partner with Phillip Biber acting for a large mercantile agency in Victoria & NSW performing all types of civil litigation with an emphasis on insolvency work and with a significant appearance load as Counsel in the Magistrates Court, County Court, Supreme and Federal courts in Bankruptcy & Winding up matters. John has been a sole practitioner since 1986 up until 2006 with emphasis on high volume Debt Recovery and Insolvency almost exclusively for Creditors. John left Dibbs Abbott Stillman (now Thompson Greer) in December 2008 and resumed private practice as a sole practitioner under his own name with a continuing emphasis on Civil Litigation & Insolvency work.
Michael Rivette
Michael Rivette is a globally-recognised leader in commercial, privacy, media and intellectual property law. An experienced trial and appellate advocate with more than 30 years’ experience in the law, Michael has successfully argued leading decisions in commercial, intellectual property and privacy law. Michael has appeared as counsel in major privacy related cases since successfully arguing the landmark Giller v Procopets (2008) 24 VR 1. He acted as Counsel in the first privacy class action issues in the Federal Court of Australia and regularly advises corporations and government departments on privacy compliance, risk and liability issues. Michael is recommended in Best Lawyers 2020: Lawyer of the Year – Privacy and Data Protections. Doyles Guide: Best Barristers 2019. Widely published and sought after as a speaker and lecturer across his fields of expertise, Michael is the Australian co-author to international texts The Law of Privacy and the Media - Tugendhat and Christie (OUP) and Remedies for Breach of Privacy (Hart). Michael is a Senior Fellow of the Melbourne University Law School, where he teaches Privacy Law in the Post Graduate programs.
Joseph Kelly
Joseph Kelly has extensive experience in commercial litigation and workplace law, having advised employers and employees on all issues relating to industrial relations and employment law. Joseph has advised industry bodies, unions, employers and government and continues to run training and information seminars for legal practitioners. Joseph is accredited as a specialist in Workplace Relations by the Law Institute of Victoria.
Tasman Ash Fleming
Tasman Ash Fleming Tasman is a Barrister and Accredited Mediator NMAS. In November 2021 Tasman Completed the Oxford Program on Negotiation at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. Tasman offers commercial and independent experience in all mediations including commercial, bankruptcy, property and wills and estates. Immediately prior to coming to the bar Tasman worked as a solicitor advocate in Government where he gained experience in Court advocacy, including preparation of briefs and giving complex legal advice on urgent matters. Prior to joining the public service, Tasman was in private practice at a boutique firm and acted in a range of matters including Property Law, Bankruptcy, Probate & Wills/ TFM and Commercial Litigation and appeared in the Magistrates’ Court of Victoria, Federal Magistrates’ Court and VCAT. Tasman is currently an adjunct lecturer in the GDLP at the College of Law Victoria where he also runs advocacy and NDR workshops as part of the lawyer’s skills component of the GDLP. Subjects taught include Civil Litigation, Commercial and Corporate, Property Law, Ethics and Professional Responsibility, Administrative Law, Consumer Law, Wills and Estates, Banking and Finance Practice In 2022 Tasman was appointed Teaching Associate at Monash University: tutor in Litigation and Dispute Resolution and Trusts. In 2020 at The Australian Catholic University Melbourne (ACU) Tasman was lecturer-in-Charge Evidence and tutor in Torts, Land and Family Law.
Rabea Khan
Rabea has extensive experience appearing in indictable criminal matters in both Victoria and NSW. She has also appeared in coronial inquests, planning enforcement proceedings and therapeutic jurisdictions such as the Drug Court, the Mental Health Tribunal, the Neighbourhood Justice Centre and the Koori Court.Rabea has a particular interest in Counter-Terrorism Law. She was a contributing editor to the publication, "Anti-Terrorism Laws: ASIO, the Police and You’” (4th Edition, 2017) and has appeared in public hearings before the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security. Rabea is a member of the Indigenous Justice Committee, a previous member of the Bar Council, and an instructor at the Leo Cussen Centre for Law. She is also currently on the Review Advisory Committee for the Review of Sexual Harassment in Victorian Courts. She is fluent in Urdu and Hindi. Rabea read with Simon Moglia. Her Senior Mentor is Dr Ian Freckelton KC.
Venue
InterContinental Melbourne
495 Collins St
Melbourne 3000
VIC Australia
Parking information
Valet Parking is only available for Resident Guests.
Nearby Parking:
Wilson Parking - View locations and rates here
Directions
Nearest Public Transport:
- By train: Southern Cross Station (5-minute walk)
- By subway: Southern Cross Station (5-minute walk)
- By Tram: Trams on routes 12, 109, 11 and 48 all pass the hotel along Collins Street, get off at the William Street stop (3-minute walk). The hotel is located within the free tram zone which means travel within the CBD on the tram is free.