Fiona McLeay, Victorian Legal Services Board CEO and Victorian Legal Services Commissioner opened our annual CPD Day. Fiona discusses detail about the Board’s role along with her role, its functions and some of the challenges and what the future outlook is.
Video length = 30 minutes. This session is worth 0.5 CPD point in Practice Management
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Rebecca Fraser, Russell Kennedy Senior Associate, discussed a range of topical ethical issues for government lawyers and practical management strategies. The session included the ethical challenges of advising policy teams, and how ethical duties apply to the increasing use of technology in the provision of legal advice.
Video length = 60 minutes. This session is worth 1 CPD point in Ethics.
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Emma Turner, Russell Kennedy Principal discuses:
- the interplay between express information sharing powers and confidentiality provisions in scheme specific legislation and general privacy law;
- how to deal with claims of privacy by corporations; and
- sharing information obtained in the course of regulatory and enforcement investigations.
Emma will explores the trends in these themes, share some of the traps she has encountered and the possible tricks and workarounds available to facilitate the sharing of information.
Video length = 60 minutes. This session is worth 1 CPD point in Substantive Law.
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In this presentation Kyle Gillan, Russell Kennedy Principal, explored:
- The general law of damages
- Contractual mechanisms to transfer risk through indemnities
- Limitations and interpretation of indemnities
- Drafting tips
- Recent cases and developments
Video length = 45 minutes. This session is worth 0.75 CPD point in Substantive Law.
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The power to enter land with a warrant is an effective way to gather evidence. However, when a search warrant is not executed correctly, or there are defects in the application documents, things can turn ugly.
Kylie Walsh will take you through the good, the bad and the ugly of search warrants to help you to manage and advise Government investigators using search warrant powers. The presentation includes common law powers of seizure, the limits on the use of seized evidence and recent case studies.
Video length = 45 minutes. This session is worth 0.75 CPD point in Substantive Law.
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Guest panellists:
W Brind Zichy-Woinarski, Queens Counsel
Sarala Fitzgerald, Barrister
Rebecca Fraser, Senior Associate - Russell Kennedy
It is easy to say that you will act as a model litigant, but actually doing so in some circumstances can be challenging to the practitioner, in-house counsel and public-servant alike. Our panel examines circumstances where the requirement to comply with the highest standard of profession practice can be challenged by self-represented litigants, bureaucratic inertia, disputes between departments, departmental policy and how the Model Litigant Guidelines can gets on with its relatives: legal professional duties and ethics, Public Sector Values, prosecutorial ethics and legislative restrictions on behaviour like the Civil Procedure Act and the Charter.
This panel session was facilitated by Ben Lloyd, Principal
Video length = 60 minutes. This session is worth 1 CPD point in Practice Management.
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