Monday, 1 July 2024
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD hour in Ethics and Professional Responsibility
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
Ethics and Professional Responsibility
Ethical Dilemmas: Learning from Others’ Mistakes
The path to success in the legal profession is fraught with peril. Ethical dilemmas can quickly threaten to derail your goals. Understand the core source of your ethical obligations and work through a practical series of ethical predicaments and real life examples to gain the knowledge, skills and strategies to ensure your ethical, and career, survival.
Presented by David Ash, Barrister, Frederick Jordan Chambers
Chair
Robyn Druitt, Barrister, Lachlan Macquarie Chambers
Presenters
David Ash, Barrister, Frederick Jordan ChambersDavid Ash is a member of the NSW Civil & Administrative Tribunal. Admitted as a barrister in NSW in 1998, David for over 20 years advised and appeared in state and federal Courts and statutory tribunals including courts of appeal and the High Court of Australia. He was a member of the NSW Bar Council for a number of years and was also a member of its professional conduct committee. He is a consulting editor for the Federal Court Reports. He is the author of Three Sydney Judges, a history of three Sydney appointments to the High Court. He is currently preparing a history of the corporation for publication. He holds a Master of Laws and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Sydney. Contact David at jurispruded@gmail.com.
Robyn Druitt, Barrister, Lachlan Macquarie Chambers
Robyn Druitt is a barrister at Lachlan Macquarie Chambers. She was admitted to the bar on 4 February 1991. Prior to this Robyn practiced as a solicitor from 1977-1991 in country New South Wales then suburban Sydney. Robyn's bar practice is now mainly in the area of Family Law, where she has a particular interest in advocacy in Family Law and sexual abuse. Robyn has extensive experience in the Children's Court (including Children of God litigation) and Common Law Claims against DOCS and NSW Department of Education (for the Crown in indigenous and non indigenous claims by wards as to abuse in care and sexually abused pupils in public schools). She was previously the President of NSW Young Lawyers (1983-1984) and a member of Family Law Committee (Law Society and Bar Association), the Legal Aid Committee (Law Society) and the Equal Opportunity Committee (Bar Association). Robyn is married with 3 children.
