SAT Practice and Procedure
Issues covered include: Costs in the SAT, Mediation, Appealing SAT Decisions
Description
What better way to master your practice and procedure in the State Administrative Tribunal than to hear firsthand from the experts themselves? Pick up essential tips and tricks as a two SAT Members and leading barristers share their experience and provide practical guidance on the key issues faced when litigating in the SAT.
Attend and earn 3 CPD points in Competency Area 2: Professional Skills
Chair: Hannah Leslie, Member, State Administrative Tribunal
2.00pm to 2.45pm: A Practical Guide to Evidence in the SAT
Hear the unique perspectives of an SAT Member and a State Solicitor as they share practical guidance and insights on evidentiary issues in the SAT.
Presented by Ian Repper, Assistant State Counsel, Department of Justice - State Solicitor's Office and Hannah Leslie, Member, State Administrative Tribunal
2.45pm to 3.30pm: Costs in the SAT
- Is the SAT is a ‘no-costs jurisdiction’?
- What does that mean? What are the principles and how are they applied?
- Are the same principles applied across ‘streams’?
Presented by Henry Jackson, Barrister, Francis Burt Chambers; Leading Planning & Environment Junior Counsel, Doyle’s Guide 2019
3.30pm to 3.45pm: Afternoon Tea
3.45pm to 4.30pm: Mediation in the SAT
- How does mediation at SAT operate?
- Preparing your client for mediation
- Representing your client effectively at mediation
- Possible outcomes from mediation
- How effective is mediation at the Tribunal?
Presented by Natasha Owen-Conway, Member, State Administrative Tribunal
4.30pm to 5.15pm: Appealing SAT Decisions
- The time limit for an appeal: When does time commence to run?
- The requirement for leave to appeal
- Available grounds for appeal: when a question of law is required
- Appeals on the basis of inadequate reasons for decision
- The appeal notice: formulating grounds of appeal
- Appeal procedure: single Judge appeals and appeals to the Court of Appeal
- Appeals against interlocutory decisions in SAT
Presented by Fiona Stanton, Barrister, Francis Burt Chambers
Venue
Mercure Perth
Level 1, 10 Irwin St
Perth 6000
WA
Australia