Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD hour in Ethics &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
Chair
Judy Tomas, GM Commercial, Contracts and Compliance, Mission Australia Housing
Ethics &Professional Responsibility
The Difference Between the Duty of Confidentiality and Legal Professional Privilege
- What is legal professional privilege, and how does it apply to work performed by in-house lawyers?
- What does it mean to prepare a document for the ‘dominant purpose of giving legal advice’?
- How can legal professional privilege be waived?
- Practical tips for claiming and keeping legal professional privilege
- What is a solicitor’s ‘duty of confidence’ and how is it different from LPP?
Presented by Phoebe Arcus, Barrister, 5 Wentworth Chambers
Presenters
Judy Tomas, GM Commercial, Mission Australia Housing
After more than three decades working in the legal profession, Judy Tomas is currently General Manager, Commercial Contracts & Compliance for Housing at national charity, Mission Australia. She leads the contracting and compliance function and works with the Board on corporate governance to deliver wellbeing and housing outcomes for vulnerable Australians. Judy is also company secretary for a small not for profit focussing on older men’s wellbeing. Her career has included legal roles with top tier firms, including partnership and she has also spent more than 10 years in house in both for profit and not for profit environments. She is a member of the senior management team at Mission Australia. Apart from her legal qualifications, Judy is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and has an MBA from Macquarie University.
Phoebe Arcus, Barrister, 5 Wentworth Chambers
Phoebe Arcus is a Barrister at 5 Wentworth Chambers, specialising in intellectual property (including patent, trade mark, copyright, design and domain name disputes), corporate law and trade practices and is recognised as a leading junior counsel in intellectual property in numerous legal ranking guides, such as Chambers & Partners, the Doyle’s Guide and Best Lawyers, among others. Phoebe is a member of the Intellectual Property Committee, Business Law Section of the Law Council of Australia and a member of the Wellbeing Committee of the New South Wales Bar Association. Prior to the bar, Phoebe worked as a solicitor for King & Wood, Mallesons, Sydney and as an Associate to Hon. Justice Bennett SC AC AO of the Federal Court of Australia. She is also admitted in the United States (New York) and is a current member of the New York Bar.
