Directors & Officers: Know the Duties
"Issues covered include: ethics, duties in practice, WHS obligations, indemnities and insurance
Description
With directors increasingly being personally ‘on the hook’, you should consider attending this timely seminar. Protect your clients, your organisation or yourself by keeping up to date on the latest obligations related to work health and safety, indemnities and insurance, director’s duties and more.
Attend and earn 4 CPD units including:
3.5 units in Substantive Law
0.5 units in Ethics & Professional Responsibility
Ethics & Professional Responsibility
9.05am to 9.50am: Ethics and their Role in Providing Legal Services
- Community expectations as the new benchmark for legal compliance
- The impact of the regulation of conduct on culture
- How board behaviour will need to change
Presented by Pauline Vamos, Director, The Banking and Finance Oath; Immediate past CEO, The Association of Superannuation Funds Australia
9.50am to 10.50am: Directors’ Duties in Practice
- Defining a ‘director’ or ‘officer’: Tricky grey areas
- Are duties owed to particular stakeholders?
- Current issues coming before the courts
Presented by Robert Boadle, Barrister, Nigel Bowen Chambers
10.50am to 11.05am Morning Tea
11.05am to 12.05pm: Work Health and Safety Obligations for Directors and Officers
- An outline of the primary duties imposed on officers under WHS laws
- Who is an ‘officer’ under WHS laws?
- What is safety ‘due diligence’?
- What impact will "industrial manslaughter" amendments have on officer duties?
- Recent case law and developments
Presented by Trent Sebbens, Partner, Ashurst
12.05pm to 1.05pm: Indemnities and Insurance for Officers in the new Regulatory Environment
- New focus on leadership, governance and culture
- Insuring human behaviour
- Deeds of indemnity: which indemnities are up for negotiation, and which are not?
- The relationship between deeds of indemnity and D&O insurance
- Available insurance protection and how competition is changing coverage
- Examples where costs are not covered
- What happens when you leave office? Are you still Insured and for how long?
Presented by: Ray Giblett, Partner; Best Lawyers 2013-2019, Insurance Law, Alternative Dispute Resolution and Litigation and Timothy Chan, ANZIIF (Aff) CIP, Associate, Norton Rose Fulbright Australia
1.05pm to 1.15pm Final Q&A and Closing Comments by the Chair
Venue
Cliftons Sydney
Level 13, 60 Margaret St
Sydney 2000
NSW
Australia