It is Learned Friends policy to minimise paper waste and to avoid burdening delegates with weighty documents. Where possible we put papers onto our website (which we are progressively adding to). A sample of our presentations appears below.
Lord Howe Island 2021
Directors' and Officers' Duty of Due Diligence Under Work Health and Safety Law
~ Bruce Hodgkinson AM SC
Spain/Portugal 2019
Nation Building Through Mediation
~ Delivered by Katherine Johnson
Lord Howe Island 2018
Greens Breakfast Property Law Update October 2017
~ Delivered by Mitch McKenzie
Lord Howe Island Marine Park
~ Delivered by Sallyann Gudge
Cape Town 2017
Appearing Before the Mental Health Tribunal
PowerPoint Presentation - Appearing Before the Mental Health Tribunal
~ Delivered by Judge Richard Cogswell SC
Hong Kong 2017
Would I Lie to You? How to Spot When Clients Lie and Why
Costs - How to Get Paid - The Impact of Uniform Law on Your Rights
~ Delivered by Michael Paul, Special Counsel, Mills Oakley
Where There's a Will There's Still a Way: The Impact of Family Provision Claims on Even the Best Laid Succession Plans
~ Michelle Painter SC, Nine Wentworth Chambers
London 2016
Tort of Malicious Prosecution
~ Delivered by Judge Phillip Mahony SC, District Court of NSW
Issues for Medical Negligence Practitioners
~ Delivered by David Campbell SC
Family Trusts - An International Perspective - PowerPoint Presentation
~ Delivered by Mark Harper, Partner - Hughes Fowler Curruthers Solicitors (London)
Family Law Case Study - PowerPoint Presentation
~ Delivered by Ziva Robertson, Partner - McDermott Will & Emery (London)
Spousal Maintenance - PowerPoint Presentation
~ Delivered by Catherine Spain, Barrister
Genocide - PowerPoint Presentation
~ Delivered by Iain Morley QC (London)
EU Challenges for UK Lawyers - PowerPoint Presentation
~ Delivered by David Stone, Partner - Simmons & Simmons (London)
Penang 2016
How The Family Law Courts Approach An Ever Changing Family Form
~ Delivered by Norman O'Dowd, Solicitor, Legal Aid NSW
Accessing Value
~ Delivered by Ray Whitten, Whittens & McKeough, Lawyers & Consultants and Suzanne Delbridge, Delbridge Forensic Accounting
The Hague Convention: A Practical Guide for Responding to a Hague Application
~ Delivered by Donna Ward, Barrister, Frederick Jordan Chambers
How to Bill Longer: "The Elephant Sitting in the Room"
~ Delivered by Andrew Delbridge, APA Titled Sports Physiotherapist
Shariah Law: Impact on Non-Muslim spouses and children
~ Delivered by Honey Tan Lay Ean, Tan Law Practice
Financial Agreements: More Growing Pains
~ Delivered by Michael Kearney SC, Barrister, Waratah Chambers
$4$ Orders: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Level Playing Field
Peter Campton SC, Barrister, Waratah Chambers
Lord Howe Island 2016
The Tribunal is not bound by the rules of evidence, but …!
~ delivered by John Wallace, Barrister at Law, Melbourne
The Rise and Fall, and Rise, (And Fall?) of Wilkinson v Downton
~ delivered by Penelope Watson, Macquarie Law School, Macquarie University Sydney
Germany 2015
Is it Murder? The Ethics and Legality of Drone Strikes
~ delivered by The Hon Justice Peter Hamill, Supreme Court of NSW
Fiji 2015
Juster cheaper quicker
~ delivered by David Ash, Barrister at Law, Frederick Jordan Chambers
Offers of Compromise
~ delivered by Andrew Combe, Barrister at Law, Third Floor Wentworth Chambers
Offers of Compromise PPT Presentation
~ delivered by Andrew Combe, Barrister at Law, Third Floor Wentworth
Sri Lanka 2015
All in the Family…
~ delivered by Michelle Painter SC
The Emerging Tort of Privacy: A Comparative Overview
~ delivered by Penelope Watson, Macquarie University, Sydney
Lord Howe - 2014
Making Valid Legislation
~ delivered by Mark Robinson SC
What Lawyers Should Know About Emotional Intelligence
~ delivered by Felicity Wardhaugh
Protecting Domain Names
~ delivered by Nicholas Smith
An Eye on Bias
~ delivered by Ian Duane
Hawaii – 2014
Litigating Professional Negligence Claims – preparation and conduct
~ delivered by The Hon Justice C Hoeben, Supreme Court of NSW, Chief Judge at Common Law
Migration/Refugee Claims
~ delivered by Judge Rolf Driver, Federal Circuit Court
Boston New York – 2013
Guidelines for Lawyers in MediationExpert Evidence, The impact of the Civil Procedure Act, 2005 (NSW)
Ethical Guidelines for Mediators
~ delivered by Mary Walker
Recent developments in the Medical Tribunal
~ delivered by Judge P Lakatos SC
Discipline in the “Medicare Workforce” – Commonwealth Professional Disciplinary Tribunals for Australian Medical Professionals
~ delivered by Mark Robinson SC
Psychiatric Defences and experts giving evidence
~ delivered by Dina Yehia SC
Doctors in the dock – When is consent truly informed?
~ delivered by Peter Hamill SC
Liability for Failure to Warn
~ delivered by Tony Cavanagh
Siem Reap – 2013
Duty of care breach and causation under the Civil Liability Act (Sections 5B, 5C, 5D)?
~ delivered by Sharron Norton SC
A basic introduction to assessing damages in a Compensation to Relatives Act claim
~ delivered by Judge Ross Letherbarrow SC
Asbestos litigation in NSW
~ delivered by Judge WP Kearns SC
Vietnam – January 2012
Prejudice – Is It Always Black and White?
~ Bibliography for paper delivered by Federal Magistrate Coakes
Personal Goodwill and Misapplication of VTO
~ delivered by Suzanne Delbridge-Bailey
Legitimate Forensic Behaviour
~ delivered by The Hon Judge R Cogswell SC
Lord Howe Island – April 2012
Policy and practice in the processing and treatment of asylum seekers in Australia and New Zealand
~ delivered by Rolf Driver
The Legal Framework of Challenges to Administrative Decision Making in NSW – A NSW Administrative Law Refresher
~ delivered by Mark Robinson SC
Therapeutic Jurisprudence
~ delivered by Her Honour Judge Helen Murrell