Public Liability Update
Issues covered include: public liability law, vicarious liability, slips-trips-falls, public liability and WHS issues
Description
Join some of the leading experts at the forefront of public liability law as they canvas each of the crucial issues you need to know for your practice to succeed. From an update on dual vicarious liability to the latest in slip and falls to the important interaction between public liability and WHS issues. This comprehensive program has you covered with precisely the information you need to know and the tools necessary to be ahead in this competitive sector.
Attend and earn 3 CPD units in Substantive Law
Chair: Michael Doyle, Barrister, Mitchell Chambers
2.00pm to 3.00pm: Dual Vicarious Liability: Shifting or Sharing the Burden?
- Can a servant have two masters, or is this a wrong/incomplete starting question?
- Statutory allocation of responsibility & statutory agency: Entanglement with common law vicarious liability?
- Labour hire, gig economy, sham contracting, institutional sexual abuse and vicarious liability: Incoherence on the move?
Presented by Brian Nugawela, Barrister, Sir Clifford Grant Chambers
3.00pm to 4.00pm: Slips and Trips in Public Places: Updates and Overviews
- Analysis of recent cases and developments
- Obvious risks
- Suing in contract
- Tort for recreational activities
- Shopping centre cases
- Footpaths and roads: immunity of councils, if any
Presented by Anthony Hillary, Partner, HWL Ebsworth Lawyers
4.00pm to 4.15pm Afternoon Tea
4.15pm to 5.15pm: The Intersection Between Public Liability Claims and WHS
- Explore the differences and similarities in legal duties arising at common law and under work health and safety laws
- Examine the importance of distinguishing between work health and safety duties and the concept of work-connectedness and duties owed to the public to ensure health and safety.
- Examine the application of WHS laws at public events and in the natural environment
- The differences in legal liability between work health and safety and public health and safety impacts on insurance and officer due diligence
Presented by Karl Luke, Partner, Thomson Geer; Best Lawyers 2019, Occupational Health and Safety Law
Venue
Stamford Plaza Adelaide Hotel
Level 2, 150 North Terrace
Adelaide 5000
SA
Australia