10 Points in One Day: Your Last Chance!
Issues covered include:Heads of Agreement, Settlements and Release Clauses in Commercial Disputes, Insolvency and Bankruptcy Fundamentals, PPSA, Wellbeing in the Virtual and Physical Office Environment, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Tax & Business Structures, Professional Skills, Practice Management & Business Skills, Creative Thinking, Property Law Case Update, Trusts, the Settled Land Act, Estate Disputes Case Law Update, Family Law Developments
Description
Make the most of your last chance to earn CPD this year by hearing from 11 experts who will give you all the information and skills necessary to grow your knowledge and practice. Featuring timely topics hand-picked to cover some of the most crucial areas for all lawyers, you’ll gain all the CPD you need and bolster your practice in one efficient, information-packed day.
Attend the full day and earn 10 CPD units including:
7 units in Substantive Law
1 unit in Ethics & Professional Responsibility
1 unit in Practice Management & Business Skills
1 unit in Professional Skills
Session 1
Commercial Law Roundup
7.30am to 8.15am: Heads of Agreement: Binding or not?
- Advantages and disadvantages of using Heads of Agreement
- Enforceability: Is there agreement on all essential terms?
- Negotiations… ‘subject to contract’
- Intention of the parties should be expressed clearly: precedent clauses for non-binding and binding
- Three (or four) classes of intention: the principles enunciated in Masters v Cameron and later cases
- Construing Heads of Agreement: the principles
- Recent significant cases
Presented by Ralph Greenberger, Barrister, Patterson’s List; Accredited Mediator
8.15am to 9.00am: Settlements and Release Clauses in Commercial Disputes
- Objectives and forms of settlement (Terms of Settlement, Deeds of Settlement, Heads of Agreement, Consent Orders and other documents)
- Legal analysis of the settlement contract and practical matters
- Drafting release clauses and covenants not to sue
- Enforcing settlements
- Revisiting settlements
- Recent cases and future problems
- A checklist for settlement of commercial disputes
- Resources and further reading
Presented by Ian Upjohn CSC QC, Howell’s List
9.00am to 9.45am: Insolvency and Bankruptcy Fundamentals for All Lawyers
- Proposed policy and practical changes in bankruptcy
- Interaction between insolvency and debt recovery in bankruptcy and in liquidations and the variable approaches taken by the courts
- The likely effects on debt recovery procedures
Presented by John Dunne, Principal, John Dunne and Associates
9.45am to 10.30am: PPSA in Practice
- PPS leases in practice
- When a registration may be defective
- Vesting of security interests in a winding up
- Effective applications to extend the date for registration
- Taking free of a security interest in the ordinary course of business
- When to assess a dispute between competing claims in collateral
Presented by Graeme Scott, Special Counsel, Hall & Wilcox; Best Lawyers 2020, Alternative Dispute Resolution
10.30am to 10.45am Morning Tea
Session 2
CPD Compulsory Units for All Lawyers
Ethics & Professional Responsibility
10.45am to 11.45am: Wellbeing in the Virtual and Physical Office Environment: Obligations and Tips
- What are professional responsibilities and ethical obligations to manage employee well-being?
- Duties and obligations to disclose mental health issues
- Staying on top of wellbeing when you are not face to face with your team
- How can you get the best out of yourself and your team while working remotely?
Presented by Adrienne Trumbull, Associate Principal, Hive Legal
Professional Skills
11.45am to 12.45pm: Tax & Business Structures: Planning, Strategies and Tips
Compare structuring alternates by highlighting key taxation, asset protection, and estate planning considerations for particular structuring alternatives/combinations.
Guide to protecting business assets
- Operational funding: capital vs secured & unsecured debt
- Intellectual property: tax & asset protection issues
- Retained profits: accessing company tax rate via non-trading company
Structuring strategies: trading entity
- Proprietary company: choice of shareholding
- Non-fixed trust: limitations for minority stakeholders
- Other trading options, eg partnerships of trusts & companies, fixed unit trusts
Structuring strategies: holding entity
- CGT & duty considerations
- Ensuring availability of income splitting
- Options for business premises, eg SMSF, family trust, fixed unit trust
How to plan for business expansion & succession
- Securing minority stakeholder investment
- Qualifying for small business CGT concessions
- Preparing business for sale
Presented by Allan Swan, Director, Estate Planning Equation; Preeminent Wills, Estates & Succession Planning Lawyer, Doyle’s Guide 2019
Practice Management & Business Skills
12.45pm to 1.45pm: Mastering the Art of Creative Thinking for Innovative Business Growth
The wake- up call to move out of ‘stuckness and innovate professional growth’
- How to harness the art of creative thinking for disruptive innovative solutions
- How a creative mindset is formed. This is supported by, neuroscientific evidence
- How to quickly create new solutions to challenges. CPAs call this program, ‘6 minute problem solver’
- How to develop a creative framework that turns around stuckness or boredom within yourself, your team or practice
- How to leverage this toolbox of creative based solutions in areas of your practice, for example, presentations, speaking, networking etc
Presented by Sally Arnold, Business Coach and Author, Creative Encores
1.45pm to 2.15pm Lunch
Session 3
Property, Wills, Family and Trusts Update
2.15pm to 3.15pm: Property Law Case Update
Analysis of the outcomes of the most important recent property law cases and what they mean for your practice.
Presented by Robert Hay QC, Castan Chambers
3.15pm to 4.15pm: Trusts: Beware the Settled Land Act
- The Act explained
- Pitfalls for solicitors and trustees
- Litigation for breach of trust
- Proposals for reform
Presented by Simon Gannon, Barrister, Isaacs Chambers
4.15pm to 4.30pm Afternoon Tea
4.30pm to 5.30pm: Estate Disputes Case Law Update
Ensure your practice is ready for the year by being across the major cases and the very latest developments in wills and estates.
Presented by Shane Newton, Barrister, Lennon's List Barristers; Leading Wills & Estates Litigation Barrister, Doyle’s Guide 2019
5.30pm to 6.30pm: Family Law Developments
A review of recent, significant cases and trends from the Family Court of Australia and Federal Circuit Court on property and financial settlements and relevant legislative amendments.
Presented by Deborah Wiener, Barrister, Holmes List
Venue
RACV City Club
Level 2, 501 Bourke St
Melbourne 3000
VIC
Australia
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