‘How to' Skills for Litigators
Issues covered include: drafting pleasings, joint expert report, trial preparation, settlement
Description
Master the litigation process from beginning to end with this practical step by step guide. From crafting pleadings to dealing with joint expert reports to preparing for trial and ultimately securing the best settlement deal possible, this is your essential guide on how to win your next litigation matter
Attend and earn 4 CPD units in Professional Skills
Chair: Dr. Mark Brabazon SC, 7 Wentworth Selborne Chambers
9.00am to 10.00am: Drafting Effective and Concise Pleadings
- Drafting successful pleadings: practical advice
- Late amendments/granting extensions
- When to review strategy
- Petty objections: how to deal with them
Presented by Michael O’Meara, Sixth Floor Selborne Wentworth Chambers; Leading Tax Junior Counsel, Doyle’s Guide 2018
10.00am to 11.00am: Getting a Better Joint Expert Report
- How to prepare
- The questions are the thing
- Why use a facilitator?
- Consequences of being prepared v briefing late
Presented by Kerry Hogan-Ross, Principal, Kerry Hogan-Ross Mediations and Karen Stott, Principal, ADR & Mediation Services
11.00am to 11.15am Morning Tea
11.15am to 12.15pm: Preparing for Trial: Common Traps
- Planning witness testimony: lay and expert, timing and rules of evidence
- Pre-trial evidence exchanges vs at trial evidence
- Notices to admit facts and documents, interrogatories
- Notices to produce and subpoenas for production
- Logistic management: documents, briefs, witnesses, experts, subpoenas to witnesses
- Offers of compromise
- Briefs within briefs: cross-examination, opinion and credit material
- Is panic necessary?
Presented by Bede Haines, Special Counsel – Litigation, Holding Redlich
12.15pm to 1.15pm: Settlement Fundamentals: Getting the Best Deal for Your Client
- Calderbank offers and offers of compromise: common mistakes, their consequences and how to avoid them
- Settlement rules: ensuring ‘without prejudice’ offers are indeed ‘without prejudice’
- Challenging settlement agreements
- When is a settlement not a settlement?
- Case studies and practical, real world examples
Presented by Florence Mitchell, Partner, Flo Mitchell Legal
Venue
Cliftons Sydney
Level 3, 10 Spring Street
Sydney 2000
NSW
Australia
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Train Stations - Wynyard 400m OR Martin Place 500m
Bus Interchange - Clarence Street 450m
Ferry - Circular Quay 1.2km
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