Mandatory CPD halfday seminar 2023
Halfday seminar 24 February, 2023
Professor Gerard Ryan, University of Notre Dame Australia; Angus Macinnis, Director of Dispute Resolution, StevensVuaran Lawyers; Robert Pelletier, Lecturer, University of Notre Dame Australia
Dixson Room, Mitchell Wing, NSW State Library
09:00AM to 12:30PM
Registration at the Library will open at 8.30am.The seminar will run simultaneously on Zoom.
You will be asked to choose between in person or Zoom during the booking process.
Daylight saving will affect the Zoom start time in some states. The seminar will start at 9.00am Sydney time.
Three Mandatory CPD points.
The seminar will cover:
Rule 6.1.1 — Ethics and professional responsibility
Professor Gerard Ryan, University of Notre Dame Australia
Rule 6.1.2 — Practice management and business skillsDiscrimination and harassment in the legal workplace. The professional conduct consequences of lawyers 'behaving badly'.
Angus Macinnis, Director of Dispute Resolution, StevensVuaran Lawyers
Rule 6.1.3 — Professional skills
International and Australian modern slavery laws pursuant to:
• The Rome Statue
• Criminal Code Act 1995 (Cth)
• Modern Slavery Act 2018 (Cth)
The focus is on:
• What is modern slavery?
• The nature and extent of the problem.
• Slavery and slavery-like offences in Australian criminal law.
• Annual obligations on entities with an annual consolidated revenue of more than $100m to report on the risk of modern slavery in their operations and supply chains.
Robert Pelletier, Lecturer, University of Notre Dame Australia
This seminar is being recorded and will be available on our website about a week after the event
In association with the University of Notre Dame Australia