Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD hour in Ethics & Professional Responsibility
This program is based on NSW legislation
* 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
Kim Boettcher, Barrister, Frederick Jordan Chambers
Ethics & Professional Responsibility
Suspicious Wills and Tainted Gifts: Acting for Vulnerable Clients on Improvident Transactions (Without Getting Sued)
- Solicitor’s duties and obligations to vulnerable clients
- Will drafting in ‘suspicious circumstances’
- Advising on gifts that may be tainted by a beneficiary’s undue influence, or unconscionable conduct
- Potential liability to the estate, or to disappointed beneficiaries
- Recent cases when its gone wrong
Presented by Patrick Wiggins, Barrister, Sir Garfield Barwick Chambers
Presenters
Patrick Wiggins, Barrister, Sir Garfield Barwick Chambers
Patrick was called to the bar in 2021. Prior to being called to the bar, he practiced for more than 10 years as a solicitor. He was an Accredited Specialist in Commercial Litigation and holds a Masters in Applied Law (majoring in commercial litigation). He was also an active member of the Law Society’s Litigation Law and Practice Committee, and the Law Society’s nominated representative to both the Supreme Court’s Common Law (Civil) User Group and the NCAT Liaison Group.
Kim Boettcher, Barrister, Frederick Jordan Chambers
Kim is a Barrister at Frederick Jordan Chambers in Sydney. Kim practises in Equity, Common Law, Protective and Guardianship Law, and in the Probate and Succession List. Prior to coming to the Bar, she practised as a Solicitor in commercial and civil litigation law in England and Wales, New South Wales and Queensland. More recently, she was a Solicitor at the Seniors Rights Service, an independent legal centre and regularly attended the UN Open-ended Working Group on Ageing in New York as a civil society representative. Kim was appointed to the NSW Minister of Fair Trading's Retirement Villages Advisory Council in 2013 and also to the Minister's Expert Committee on Retirement Villages Standard Contract Terms and Disclosure Documents in 2011. Kim was a Member of the inaugural Legal Services Council in 2014 and reappointed from 2017-2020. She is a past Treasurer of the International Commission of Jurists Australia and was appointed to the NSW Bar Association’s Succession and Protective Law Committee in 2021, 2022 and 2023.
