Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD hour in Substantive Law and Procedural Law
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
* This interactive online recording includes questions and quizzes requiring critical thinking about the topics, so you have no annual limits to the number of points/hours you can claim with this format of learning. Please verify with your CPD rules
Advancements in Effective Administrative Decision-Making in Public Law
- Revisiting modern best practices: A comprehensive recap of decision-making principles
- Informed by legal precedence: insights drawn from recent high court cases
Presented by Prue Bindon, Barrister, Key Chambers; Preeminent Commercial Litigation & Dispute Resolution Barrister, Doyle’s Guide 2023
Chair
Sonja Gasser, Principal Solicitor, ACT Government Solicitor
Presenters
Sonja Gasser, Principal Solicitor, ACT Government Solicitor
Sonja works for the ACT Government Solicitor acting as Practice Leader Regulation and Employment – which involves supervising advices and litigation in administrative law areas of planning, revenue, licencing, and environment – and previously led the Information Privacy and Access practice area. Sonja was a finalist in the 2023 ACT Women’s Lawyer of the Year Awards in the category of Government and won the ACT Public Service Award for Excellence in the Leadership category. Sonja is committed to volunteering, having previously worked her way up into management in Community Legal Centres federally and in Victoria, and within the ACT State Emergency Service. She received an award for ACT Volunteer of the Year for Emergency Service. She has been involved in establishing a number of community groups and continues to volunteer on the board of number of community groups.
Prue Bindon, Barrister, Key Chambers
Prue accepts briefs in a variety of areas including appeals, administrative, commercial, constitutional, coronial, discrimination, employment and industrial, human rights, professional discipline, and work health and safety law. She accepts briefs across jurisdictions and is also a member of 6 St James Hall Chambers in Sydney. Before joining the Bar, Prue worked for national and international law firms in Australia and Hong Kong, including King & Wood Mallesons and Linklaters. Prue graduated from the Australian National University in 2002 with First Class Honours and the University Medal in Law. She went on to work as the associate to the Honourable Dyson Heydon AC QC on the High Court of Australia. She later undertook further study at Oxford University where she graduated with a Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) with Distinction and the Herbert Hart Prize in Jurisprudence. She has been an associate lecturer at the ANU law school for a number of years. Prue is a member of the ACT Bar Council, board member of the Legal Aid Commission ACT, Chair of the ACT Bar Equal Opportunity Committee, member of the Law Council of Australia Equal Opportunity Committee, and member of the Women Lawyers Association ACT policy committee (for which she previously served as President).
