Native Title Intensive
Issues covered include: The Native Title Claim Scene in Victoria, Indigenous Land Use Agreements, Compensation of Cultural and Economic Loss of Native Title, Native Title Compensation, Intersection Between Native Title and the Victorian Treaty Process
Description
Hear from leading experts across the spectrum of native title practice. Don’t miss this half-day examination of the very latest issues that are truly essential to anyone whose work touches on native title or cultural heritage issues.
Attend and earn 4 CPD Units in Substantive Law
9.00am to 9.05am: Opening Comments by the Chair
9.05am to 9.50am: The Native Title Claim Scene in Victoria
- An introduction to the Traditional Owner Settlement Act 2010 (Vic)
- Distinctions and overlaps between the native title claim process and alternative settlement regime in Victoria
- Alternative approaches to resolving native title and compensation claims
Presented by Catherine Wilson,Principal Legal Officer, First Nations Legal & Research Services
9.50am to 10.35am: National Law and Practice Concerning Indigenous Land Use Agreements
- The three forms of Indigenous land use agreement (ILUA): selecting the optimal form
- Informed consent procedures: authorisation of area agreements vs procedures for ‘native title decisions’ about body corporate agreements
- ILUA registration procedure and contesting registration
- Recent Full Court developments: Quall, Kemppi and the Noongar settlements ILUAs
- The compensation dimension of ILUAs
- Deregistration and s.199C
Presented by Libby McKillop, Senior Associate, Ashurst
10.35am to 10.50am; Morning Tea
10.50am to 11.35am: A Guide for the Compensation of Cultural and Economic Loss of Native Title - Principles, Practice and Test Cases
- Griffiths v Northern Territory [2019] HCA 7: The High Court’s decision and the consequences
- Principles for assessment of the elements of compensable loss
- The recognition of native title and addressing the recompense for dispossession
Presented by Sturt Glacken QC, Owen Dixon Chambers West; Preeminent Native Title Barrister, Doyle’s Guide 2019
11.35am to 12.20pm: Native Title Compensation: Where to from Here?
- What issues were not covered in the Timber Creek case?
- Who is going to pay?
Presented by Clare Lawrence, Partner, Ashurst
12.20pm to 1.05pm: The Intersection Between Native Title and the Victorian Treaty Process
- Understanding the Victorian treaty process
- Intersections with native title to date
- Beyond native title: meeting traditional owner aspirations through treaty
- Looking to the future: intersections between native title and treaty
Presented by Elly Patira, Executive Director, Department of Premier and Cabinet
1.05pm to 1.15pm Final Q&A and Closing Comments by the Chair
Venue
RACV City Club
Level 2, 501 Bourke St
Melbourne 3000
VIC
Australia
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