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Issues covered include: workplace discrimination, religious organisations, estate planning, crime, parenting, child support, parental rights
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
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
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
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
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
Presented by Ben Bjarnesen, BM CF Regional Coordinator – LGBTI Liaison Officer Program, Queensland Police
Pressing Parenting and Family Issues
2.00pm to 3.00pm: Who is the Parent?
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
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
Presented by Amy McGowan, Senior Associate, Dowson Turco Lawyers
Cliftons Sydney
Level 3, 10 Spring Street
Sydney 2000
NSW
Australia
"One of the most interesting and engaging I've attended." Justine Walter, Walter & Elliott Family Lawyers