2010 CPD Programme

This programme is run jointly by William Forster Chambers and the Law Society of the Northern Territory on the last Thursday of each month.

Location: William Forster Chambers, Australian Financial Advisers (AFA) Forum Room, Ground Floor, 26 Harry Chan Avenue, Darwin NT 0800.

We would like to thank Australian Financial Advisers for kindly allowing us to use their facilities for these events.

Next seminar 

11 March 2010 from 5-6pm - How to get out of “off the plan” Contracts and the new Sale of Land (Rights and Duties of Parties) Bill – Vincent Peters and Alistair Wyvill SC

Future Seminars

• 18 March 2010 from 5-6pm
  Medical Negligence (Preparation and Presentation) – Ben O’Loughlin
• 25 March 2010 from 1-2pm
  The Ombudsman Act - Georgia McMaster
• 15 April 2010 from 12-1pm
  “Security for Payment Applications – an update” – David Alderman and David Baldry
• 29 April 2010 from 12-1pm
  “Challenging a will – the Family Provision Act and testamentary incapacity”- Tony Young
• 27 May 2010
  “TBA” - Raelene Webb QC
• 29 July 2010
  “TBA” – Tass Liveris

Past Seminars and Other Articles

• 28 January 2010
  “For better or worse” – De Facto relationships under the Family Law Act  – Vincent Peters
• 19 November 2009
  The “How To” for Trial Civil Procedure Reforms – Wade Roper
• 22 October 2009
  Mediation and the Trial Civil Procedure Reforms practice direction – Stephen Walsh QC and Alistair Wyvill SC
• 28 May 2009
  Work Health Act Stress Claims under threat? – Peter Barr QC
• 26 March 2009
  Tribunals Update – Ian Morris
• 26 February 2009
  Oppression Actions: sections 232 and 233 of the corporations act (cth) – Geoff Clift
• 29 January 2009
  Construction Contracts (Security of Payments) Act:
  • Adjudication Procedure – David Alderman
  • The Definition of Construction Contract and Prohibited and Implied terms –   Alistair Wyvill
  • Review by the Courts and Challenges to Adjudications – Tony Young
• September 2008
  Injunctions Update for Commercial Litigation Practitioners – Alistair Wyvill
• August 2008
  The Woolf Civil Procedure Reforms 10 Years On: Success or Failure? – Alistair Wyvill
• March 2008
  Islam and amphetamines – change on the island of Lombok – Tony Young
• 2000
  A Short History of the Northern Territory Bar – Justice Dean Mildren