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Upcoming CPD Events

Title Legal Assistants' Training Course
Date 28-Sep-2010
Time 5.30pm to 8.30pm
Venue Law Society of Western Australia
Level 4, 89 St Georges Terrace, Perth
CPD Points
 No points applicable for this course
Details The Law Society of Western Australia is proud to present this highly acclaimed course to the profession. The Society’s Legal Assistants’ Training Course is designed for experienced and new support staff. It aims to develop learning skills and knowledge in a wide range of legal areas. This course is intended to suit experienced secretaries seeking skills and knowledge in other legal areas and junior secretaries who require basic skills and a working knowledge of all legal areas.
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Title Trusts from a Litigation Perspective
Date 01-Sep-2010
Time 4.30pm to 6.30pm
Venue Law Society of Western Australia
Level 4, 89 St Georges Terrace, Perth
CPD Points
 2 CPD Points in Total: 1 Point (Competency Area 1 - Legal Skills or Practice) 1 Point (Competency Area 3 - Substantive Law)
Details Trusts remain critically important structures in family and commercial affairs. This seminar will discuss developments in trust law from an asset protection and litigation perspective.
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Title Enforcing Judgments Against Property - Breakfast
Date 03-Sep-2010
Time 7.30am to 9am
Venue Parmelia Hilton
14 Mill Street, Perth
CPD Points
 1 CPD Point in Total: 0.5 Point (Competency Area 1 - Legal Skills or Practice) 0.5 Point (Competency Area 3 - Substantive Law)
Details This breakfast seminar is essential for all practitioners involved with civil property judgments in the Supreme, District or Magistrates Courts. It will deal with the methods of enforcement available to judgment creditors as outlined in the Civil Judgments Enforcement Act 2004 (WA). It will also provide attendees a good understanding of the essential requirements of the property (seizure and sale) in order to help practitioners avoid difficulties in this area.
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Title Strata Fundamentals (YLC Basics Series)
Date 09-Sep-2010
Time 5.15pm to 6.15pm
Venue to be advised
CPD Points
 1 CPD point (Competency Area 3 - Substantive Law)
Details This seminar is designed for anyone who may come across a strata scheme, including banking lawyers, litigators and property lawyers.
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Title Jury Systems – The Pros and Cons: An Insider Perspective
Date 15-Sep-2010
Time 4.30pm to 6.30pm
Venue Law Society of Western Australia
Level 4, 89 St Georges Terrace, Perth
CPD Points
 2 CPD points in total: 1 CPD point (Competency Area 1 - Legal Skills or Practice) and 1 CPD point (Competency Area 3 - Substantive Law)
Details Hear from experts in the field and gain appreciation of the experience of real WA jurors including specific reference to expert evidence and intimidation. This seminar will also inform attendees of the alternatives to the jury system, with the event concluding with an animated panel discussion from the experts in the field.
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Title Easements and Restrictive Covenants Revisited
Date 22-Sep-2010
Time 4.30pm to 6.30pm
Venue Law Society of Western Australia
Level 4, 89 St Georges Terrace, Perth
CPD Points
 2 CPD Points in Total: 1 Point (Competency Area 1 - Legal Skills or Practice) 1 Point (Competency Area 3 - Substantive Law )
Details This seminar will cover various types of easements and restrictive covenants that may be created under statute and common law. Restrictive covenants under Section 15 of the Land Administration Act 1997 and Crown Easements under Section 144 of the Land Administration Act 1997 will be examined as well as Landgate registration requirements.
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Title An Overview of the ASX and JORC Listing Rules: Minimising Your Client's Risk - Breakfast
Date 24-Sep-2010
Time 7am to 9am
Venue Parmelia Hilton
14 Mill Street, Perth
CPD Points
 1.5 CPD Points in Total: 1 Point (Competency Area 1 - Legal Skills or Practice) 0.5 Point (Competency Area 3 - Substantive Law)
Details The ASX Listing Rules constitute a contract between the ASX and listed entities that are enforceable under the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth). The listing rules create obligations that are both additional and complementary to common law obligations and statutory obligations. This seminar will look at both the listing rules for the ASX entities and entities affected by the JORC listing rules.
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Title National Regulation of the Health Professions
Date 13-Oct-2010
Time 4.30pm to 6.30pm
Venue Law Society of Western Australia Training Rooms
Level 4, 89 St Georges Terrace, Perth
CPD Points
 2 CPD Points in Total: 1 Point (Competency Area 1 - Legal Skills or Practice) 1 Point (Competency Area 3 - Substantive Law)
Details From Octover 2010 approximately 40,000 WA health professionals will be regulated under a new national scheme. All lawyers who advise health professionals or their insurers will need to be familiar with the new scheme and its implications and practice.
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Title Ethical Consideration on Expert Evidence (YLC Basics Series)
Date 14-Oct-2010
Time 5.15pm to 6.15pm
Venue Law Society of Western Australia Training Rooms
Level 4, 89 St Georges Terrace, Perth
CPD Points
 1 CPD Point (Competency Area 2 - Ethics or Professional Responsibility)
Details Briefing an expert can be a daunting experience for a young lawyer. What can they be told? How do you deal with amendments to their report? This seminar will provide you with practical advice about what to do and what not to do when briefing an expert and will equip you with the knowledge you need to ensure you stay within the ethical boundaries.
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Title Caveats: An Essential Guide for Legal Practitioners
Date 15-Oct-2010
Time 7.30am to 9am
Venue Parmelia Hilton
14 Mill Street, Perth
CPD Points
 1.0 CPD Point (Competency Area 1 - Legal Skills or Practice)
Details This breakfast seminar is essential for all practitioners involved with property law.

It will examine all aspects of Caveats including:
• Defining caveats and identifying the different types
• An overview of caveatable interest
• The lodgement requirements and evidence of interest
• Landgate practices
• How to remove a caveat
• How to defend caveatable interest
• Common misconceptions such as, inability to simply lodge a caveat on a property if an owner owes a party money, or if an owner is in default under a contract to buy another property
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Title Dispute Resolution: Taxation Considerations
Date 27-Oct-2010
Time 4.30pm to 6pm
Venue Law Society of Western Australia
Level 4, 89 St Georges Terrace, Perth
CPD Points
 1.5 CPD points in total: 1 CPD point (Competency Area 1 - Legal Skills or Practice) and 0.5 CPD point (Competency Area 3 - Substantive Law)
Details The formulation of terms of settlement of disputes, final orders and judgments may produce unintended taxation consequences for the parties. The objective of this seminar is to create an awareness of the taxation issues in settlements and judgments, and knowing when to seek specialist taxation advice.
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Title The Use of Information Technology in Criminal Trials
Date 28-Oct-2010
Time 4.30pm to 6.00pm
Venue Ceremonial Court
District Court of Western Australia
500 Hay Street, Perth
CPD Points
 1.5 CPD points (Competency Area 3 - Substantive Law)
Details The District Court of Western Australia has a range of information technology at it's disposal for use in criminal trials. Attendance at this seminar will give practitioners an unparalleled insight into the Court’s approach to IT and will assist practitioners in dovetailing their pre-trial preparation with the Court’s IT systems.
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Title Corporate Governance - What Junior Practitioners Need to Know
Date 11-Nov-2010
Time 5.15pm to 6.15pm
Venue Law Society of Western Australia Training Rooms
Level 4, 89 St Georges Terrace, Perth
CPD Points
 1 CPD Point (Competency Area 3 - Substantive Law)
Details Australia is one of the most corporatised nations in the world and in the ever shifting sands of corporate regulation in Australia, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission is receiving more power and responsibilities. This seminar will provide attendees of a good understanding of how corporations are regulated and what corporate governance issues young players need to know.
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Title 2011 Law Summer School
Date 25-Feb-2011
Time 7.15am to 6.30pm
Venue University Club
University of Western Australia
35 Stirling Highway, Crawley
CPD Points
 7 CPD Points
Details Law Summer School 2011, the premier professional development event on Western Australia’s legal calendar, will offer informative presentations, challenging discussions, debate and networking opportunities. A joint effort between the Law Society of Western Australia and the University of Western Australia’s Law School, the program for 2011 once again features an impressive line-up of speakers including leading international and national experts. More importantly, these topical sessions will encourage debate on current issues affecting the legal profession.
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