SEAN BRENNAN
Speaking on Wednesday 27 February
Topic: How to win your local court criminal case.
Strands:
- Ethics and Professional Responsibility
- Practice Management and Business Skills
- Substantive Law, Practice and Procedure, and Evidence
- Barristers’ Skills
Outline:
- How to put your client at ease with one comment
- How to cross examine police
- What you need to prevent the prosecution proving
- How to know what the magistrate is thinking before you call evidence
- The value of applications to exclude evidence
- What the prosecution might hand up on sentence without telling you
PETROS MACAROUNAS
Speaking on Monday 4 March
Topic: Conflicts of interest, show cause events and disclosure in settlement negotiations
Strand:
(a) Ethics and Professional Responsibility
GREG MOORE & MARK ANDERSON
Speaking on Tuesday 5 March
Topic: Care proceedings
Strands:
(c) substantive law, Practice and Procedure, and Evidence
Outline:
Mark and Greg will explain recent developments in Child Protection Law including amendments to the “Children and Young Persons (Care and Protection) Act”
CATHRYN McCONAGHY
Speaking on Thursday 7 March
Topic: Aboriginal cultural rights in family law
Strands:
- Ethics and Professional Responsibility
(c) Substantive Law, Practice and Procedure, and Evidence
(d) Barristers’ Skills
This presentation examines the tension between the ‘best interests’ test and Aboriginal children’s cultural rights in Family Law case law.
JIM JOHNSON
Speaking on Monday 11 March
Topic: Current attitude and practice in the Supreme Court in relation to s 56 and s 60 Civil Procedure Act 2005
Strands:
(a) Ethics and Professional Responsibility
(b) Practice Management and Business Skills
(d) Barristers’ Skills
Outline:
In recent times with the court system groaning under the ever increasing weight of Interlocutory Applications and fresh proceedings the court is attempting to pull practitioners back into line consistent with s. 56 and s. 60 Civil Procedure Act 2005 and what was stated by the High Court in Expense Reduction Analysts Group Pty Ltd v Armstrong Strategic Management and Marketing Pty Ltd (2013) 250 CLR 303; [2013] HCA 3 at [57]. It is timely to remember the various procedural changes that have taken place in the last 12 months judgements of the court and the fundamental operation of practitioners towards the court and parties and opponents in light of recent authorities and potential costs consequences.
LISHAN ANG
Speaking on Wednesday 13 March
Topic: Bitcoin and blockchain HODL or FODL?
Strands:
(c) Substantive Law, Practice and Procedure, and Evidence
What is bitcoin?
What is blockchain?
How does bitcoin work?
Is bitcoin a fraud?
Is bitcoin a bubble?
What is the lightning network?
HODL or FODL?
Lishan, a humble servant of the crypto overlords will reveal the current state of play in blockchain economics, blockchain tech, taxation and law.
JOSIE WALKER
Speaking on Thursday 14 March
Topic: Gloucester Resources Limited v Minister for Planning (2019) NSWLEC 7: new law on climate change in the Land and Environment Court
Strand:
(c) Substantive Law, Practice and Procedure, and Evidence
Outline:
- Why Gloucester Resources is a landmark climate change case.
- The history of greenhouse gas emissions as a mandatory relevant consideration.
- What this decision will and won’t change in future decisions about greenhouse-gas intensive developments.
MICHELLE CAMPBELL
Speaking on Monday 18 March
On the topic of managing complex litigation, with reference to her recent case, R v Eastman
Strands:
- Ethics and professional responsibility
(c) Substantive law, practice and procedure, and Evidence
(d) Barristers skills
GARRY HATCHER SC
Speaking on Tuesday 19 March
Topic: Developments in the law in relation to the nature of jurisdictional error
Strands:
(c) Substantive Law, Practice and Procedure, and Evidence
Outline:
We have come a long way since Sir Frederick Jordan’s helpful analysis of what might constitute jurisdictional error. Then we were informed that there were mistakes and mistakes.
In order to ensure there is a doctrinal basis for the classification of error as either jurisdictional or non jurisdictional, the High Court has recently informed us that a mistake must be material in order that it be jurisdictional. Whilst that might simply sound like another amorphous adjective which provides little more assistance than Justice Gleeson’s helpful guide that “you know it when you see it”, there is actually significantly more to be gleaned from the High Court’s approach. No little assistance can be gained from a review of recent authority on legal unreasonableness.
This paper will attempt to guide one through the morass to emerge with the happy talent of being able to say, as Justice Roderick Meagher so delightfully did, that the Tribunal below “had the undoubted jurisdiction to get it as wrong as they clearly did”.
DAVID ASH
Speaking on Thursday 21 March
Topic: Bubblewrap & burps – The new world of contract law
Strands:
- Ethics and Professional Responsibility
(c) Substantive Law, Practice and Procedure, and Evidence.
Outline:
You know you used to sign a contract and the court said you were bound? You don’t sign things anymore, do you? You either tick the tick box, or you say “I agree” when the robot asks. What does this mean? Is there a deemed signed contract? Do parking ticket cases have meaning after all? What about consumer law? At a more profound level, how does the intercourse between your keyboard and an algorithmic android identify itself within the language of “contract law”? What is “the contract”? What is your obligation as a lawyer representing a party to get any “contract” before the court in a just, quick and cheap manner? These and other questions will be posed and possibly, in a non-binding way, answered.
CRAIG LONGMAN
Speaking on Monday 25 March
Topic: Interpretation by the NSWCCA of s101 of the Crimes (Appeal and Review) Act in the context of the Bowraville Murders
Strands:
(c) Substantive Law, Practice and Procedure, and Evidence
TANIA EVERS
Speaking on Thursday 28 March
Topic: The new child sexual assault regime
Strands:
(c) Substantive Law, Practice and Procedure, and Evidence