Personal Injury Conference
Issues covered include: serious injuries, limitation of actions, historical sexual abuse, medical negligence, tac update, trial preparation and strategy, ethics, dealing with an injured client
Description
Sharpen your knowledge, amplify your skills and stay at the forefront of all the topical issues affecting personal injury lawyers right now. The morning session provides an in depth guide to the most significant cases and new developments in a variety of personal injury matters. Complemented in the afternoon session with CPD core areas designed specifically for practitioners in this particular area of the law. Strengthen and enhance your legal practice on every level.
Attend and earn 7 CPD hours including:
4 hours in Substantive Law
1 hour in Ethics & Professional Responsibility
1 hour in Practice Management & Business Skills
1 hour in Professional Skills
This conference was recorded in VIC on 12 September 2019
Session 1
Your Ultimate Update Session
Chair: Lisa Paul, Partner, Adviceline Injury Lawyers
9.00am to 9.05am Opening Comments by the Chair
9.05am to 9.50am: Serious Injuries Case Update: Maximise your Knowledge
Explore the most critical and interesting recent cases that will impact your practice and your clients. Analyse the key facts and circumstances in each case, consider how the cases resolved, and gain insights into the practical takeaways you need to know.
Presented by Henry Carus, Principal, Henry Carus and Associates
9.50am to 10.35am: Limitation of Actions: Essential Learning
- Relevant legislative provisions
- Relevant case law: Tsiadis v Patterson (2001) 4 VR 114, Davies v Nilsen [2015] VSC 584 and Hunt & Numurkah District Health Services v Holcombe [2018] VSCA 248
- Tips for preparing extension of time applications
- Tips for defending extension of time applications
Presented by Carmelina Spitaleri, Barrister, Owen Dixon West Chambers
10.35am to 10.50am Morning Tea
10.50am to 11.35am: Historical Sexual Abuse
Aspects of Civil Claims under the Wrongs Act
- The abolition of limitation periods and applications for summary dismissal
- Impairment thresholds for intentional torts
- Media and pseudonym orders
- Naming the defendant/s
- Liability, including vicarious liability
- Psychiatric injury and the courts
- Other avenues and when to use them:
- Victims of Crime Assistance Tribunal
- Sentencing Act applications
- The Redress Scheme
Presented by Anita Spitzer, Barrister, Greens List
11.35am to 12.20pm: Medical Negligence – A Year in Breach and Causation
Review recent appellate cases from around Australia on the ever-complex issues that arise in breach and causation in medical negligence. This presentation will cover developments in the peer professional opinion and will touch on disentangling multiple, progressive injuries.
Presented by Paul Lamb, Barrister, Owen Dixon Chambers East
12.20pm to 1.05pm: TAC Update: Major Developments and Consequences
- The transformation of the independent branch
- Key TAC and WorkCover developments
- Contributory negligence in WorkCover and TAC Claims
- Judicial Review in TAC and WorkCover Claims
- Worksafe and TAC Actions: third party perspectives
Presented by Jeremy King, Principal, Robinson Gill Lawyers
1.05pm to 1.15pm Final Q&A and Closing Comments by the Chair
Session 2
CPD Compulsory Units for Personal Injury Lawyers
Chair: Sach Fernando, Principal, Maxiom Law, Accredited Specialist Personal Injury Law
Professional Skills
2.00pm to 3.00pm: Trial Preparation and Strategy: Expand your Repertoire
- Organisational strategies to implement
- Identifying the real issues
- Pleading and drafting traps
- When to request further and better particulars
- Interrogatories and discovery: common traps
Presented by Andrew Dimsey, Barrister, Owen Dixon Chambers East; Recommended, Insurance Barristers, Doyle’s Guide 2017
Ethics & Professional Responsibility
3.00pm to 4.00pm: Ethics and Personal Injury Litigation: Where’s the Line?
- Dealing with clients: where’s the line in encouraging settlement?
- Dealing with over-involved clients: when your client writes your cross-examination
- Dealing with witnesses: what’s the balance between coaching and preparation?
- Dealing with dodgy doctors: where the line when the doctor asks what their opinion should be?
Presented by Ray Ternes, Barrister, Owen Dixon Chambers
4.00pm to 4.15pm Afternoon Tea
Practice Management & Business Skills
4.15pm to 5.15pm: How to Deal with an Injured Client – Enhance your Knowledge
- Understanding the psychology and expectations of the client
- Awareness of context and circumstances
- Managing client expectations based on ‘likely’ outcomes
- Providing a number of legal solutions
- Why a multilayered approach is best
Presented by Kim Shaw, Principal, Maurice Blackburn Lawyers
Venue
Novotel on Collins
270 Collins Street
Melbourne 3000
VIC
Australia