City of Sydney Law Society: Seminars
September 5, 2019 5:30pm - November 7, 2019 6:00pm
Level 20, St James Centre, 111 Elizabeth Street, Sydney
Carroll & O’Dea Lawyers are hosting the City of Sydney Law Society Seminars each Thursday evening throughout the year from 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm.
Please note: Places are limited. Registrations for each event can be made through the City of Sydney Law Society here.
Topic: Witness statements, trial preparation and working with counsel (Professional Skills)
Date: Thursday 7 February 2019
Speaker: Sam Blackman, Barrister Edmund Barton Chambers
Topic: Mediation in Family Law (Professional Skills)
Date: Thursday 14 February 2019
Speaker: Stephen Bell, Solicitor and Accredited Mediator
Topic: Updates on the Fair Work Commission (Substantive Law)
Date: Thursday 21 February 2019
Speaker: Vice President Catanzariti AM, Fair Work Commission
Topic: Costs Disclosures and Cost Orders-obligations of a practitioner (Practice Management and Business Skills)
Date: Thursday 28 February 2019
Speaker: Nipa Dewan, Barrister 2 Selborne Chambers
Topic: Offers of Compromise and Calderbank Offers
Date: Thursday 7 March 2019
Speaker: Adrian O’Dea, Partner, Carroll & O’Dea Lawyers
Topic: Professional Regulation-Looking out for number one (Ethics & Professional Responsibility)
Date: Thursday 14 March 2019
Speaker: Mark Warton, Solicitor/Law Society Councillor
Topic: Local Court Advocacy (Professional Skills)
Date: Thursday 21 March 2019
Speaker: His Honour Magistrate Barko, Local Courts NSW
Topic: Online Browser Privacy (Practice Management and Business Skills)
Date: Thursday 28 March 2019
Speaker: Dr John Selby, academic member of the Optus-Macquarie Cybersecurity Hub at Macquarie University.
Topic: Making Sense of Loss- The Re-Constructionist Model of Mediation (Substantive Law)
Date: Thursday 9 May 2019
Speaker: Katherine Johnson, PhD, Dispute Resolution Services
Topic: Creditor v Debtor- the “loopholes’ and the law (Substantive Law)
Date: Thursday 16 May 2019
Speakers: Geoffrey McDonald, Barrister and Aaron Cornish, Barrister
Topic: Contracts for the Sale of Land
Date: Thursday 23 May 2019
Speaker: Greg Walsh SC, Barrister 12th Floor Wentworth Selborne Chambers
Topic: Australian Consumer Law (Substantive Law)
Date: Thursday 30 May 2019
Speaker: Daniel Tynan, Barrister 12th Floor Wentworth Selborne Chambers
Topic: Preserving the Corporate Veil (Substantive Law)
Date: Thursday 6 June 2019
Speaker: Aaron Lucan, Partner, Worrells Western Sydney, Central West & Orana
Topic: Recent Developments in deceased estate administration, law and practice (Substantive Law)
Date: Thursday 13 June 2019
Speaker: Dr John de Groot, De Groots Wills & Estate Lawyers
Author of the Wills, Probate and Administration Practice Queensland, Australia, launched de Groot’s Wills, Probate and Administration Practice New South Wales in late 2017
Topic: Mandatory visa cancellation of non-citizens in prison (Substantive Law)
Date: Thursday 20 June 2019
Speaker: Uche Okereke-Fisher, Barrister, State Chambers
Topic: Taxation issues (full title to be advised)
Date: Thursday 27 June 2019
Speaker: Sarah Woodland, Barrister, 11 St James Hall
Topic: Representing foreign nationals in trouble with the law: the Migration Act 1958 (Cth) for criminal lawyers
Date: Thursday 5 September 2019
Speaker: Stephen Lawrence, Barrister, Black Chambers
Topic: Ethics in Advocacy (Ethics and Professional Responsibility
Date: Thursday 12 September 2019
Speaker: Jonathon Kay Hoyle, Barrister 11 St James Hall
Topic: Registrar Series Seminar
Date: Thursday 19 September 2019
Speaker: Christopher Bradford, Registrar Common Law, Supreme Court of NSW
Topic: A litiator’s guide to electronic evidence
Date: Thursday 26 September 2019
Speaker: Clinton Towers, Director Access Forensics Pty Ltd
Topic: TBA
Date: Thursday 3 October 2019
Speaker: TBA
Topic: TBA
Date: Thursday 10 October 2019
Speaker: TBA