Legal Issues and the LGBTI Community
Issues covered include: workplace discrimination, religious organisations, estate planning, crime, parenting, child support, parental rights
Description
There is a great depth of knowledge required to understand and connect with the legal issues of the LGBTI community. This unique conference will shine a spotlight on the timely and critical legal issues affecting the community – the issues that you need to be fully on top of for your organisation or your practice. Don’t miss your opportunity to keep up with the evolving legal issues facing the LGBTI community by exploring domestic violence, surrogacy, child support and more in this ground breaking event.
Attend and earn 7 CPD units in Substantive Law
This seminar was recorded in NSW on 29 May 2019
Session 1
Timely Concerns – Discrimination, Estate Planning and Crime
Chair: Ken Terado, Lawyer, Clayton Utz and COO of Out for Australia
9.00am to 10.00am: Workplace Discrimination and the Unique Issues Facing the LGBTI Community
- Pick your jurisdiction: Where should I take my complaint, state or federal?
- The complaint process: from start to finish
- LGBTI protections: what’s good, what’s bad and what needs some updating
- Seeking exemptions under the relevant legislation: how to target jobs or services for particular groups of people
- The proactive role of the Anti-Discrimination Board of NSW in preventing discrimination: how can we help
Presented by Elizabeth Wing, Senior Manager, Operations, Anti-Discrimination Board of NSW
10.00am to 11.00am: Religious Organisations and Issues: Freedom of Religion and Anti-Discrimination
- The Religious Freedom Review: political context, process and implications
- Religious exemptions from anti-discrimination laws
- Discrimination against LGBTI+ students in religious schools
- Human rights protections in Australia
- Balancing competing rights
Presented by Lee Carnie, Director of Legal Advocacy, Equality Australia
11.00am to 11.15am Morning Tea
1.15am to 12.15pm: Estate Planning for the LGBTI Community
- Family disputes, dynamics and LGBTI relationships
- Wills, enduring powers of attorneys and enduring guardians
- Understanding the financial, tax and superannuation impact through the eyes of a financial adviser
Presented by Jessica Brady, Financial Adviser, Fox and Hare and Tahlia Bleier, Solicitor and Practice Manager, Steiner Legal
12.15pm to 1.15pm: Crime and the LGBTI Community
- LGBTI history (including history with police around Australia)
- Myths around domestic violence (DV) in LGBTI relationships
- Why LGBTI victims may not identify their experience as DV
- Behaviours and dynamics that are unique to DV in an LGBTI context
- Why LGBTI people may be hesitant in reporting DV or crimes to Police
Presented by Ben Bjarnesen, BM CF Regional Coordinator – LGBTI Liaison Officer Program, Queensland Police
Session 2
Pressing Parenting and Family Issues
2.00pm to 3.00pm: Who is the Parent?
- Complex family situations analysed
- Sperm donation is testing what it means to be a legal parent, all the way to the High Court!
- Case studies and recent practical examples
Presented by Stephen Page, Partner, Page Provan Family Lawyers
3.00pm to 4.00pm: Left Holding the Baby: Child Support and Child Maintenance Issues in the LGBTI Community
- Who is liable to pay child support?
- What about step parents?
- When would a child maintenance order be appropriate?
- What is the position with needy adult children?
- Can I make an urgent application?
Presented by Stephen H. Scarlett OAM RFD, Barrister, Arbitrator and Accredited Mediator
4.00pm to 4.15pm Afternoon Tea
4.15pm to 5.15pm: Parental Rights: Non-Biological Parents and de Facto Couples
- Co-parenting after separation
- Parental responsibility
- The best interests of the children
Presented by Amy McGowan, Senior Associate, Dowson Turco Lawyers
Venue
Cliftons Sydney
Level 3, 10 Spring Street
Sydney 2000
NSW
Australia
Testimonials
"One of the most interesting and engaging I've attended." Justine Walter, Walter & Elliott Family Lawyers