Presenters

Alexander Ward AM, Barrister, Edmund Barton Chambers
President of the Law Council of Australia in 2011 and current Part time Member of the AAT General Diviusion, Alexander Ward has 35 years' experience as a solicitor and barrister. He has been the Australian representative on the Commonwealth Lawyers Association since 2008, and was its President (2015 – 2017). He has practised as a barrister at Edmund Barton Chambers in Adelaide since 2002. He practises in civil litigation, with an emphasis on accident cases, fraud cases and cases involving complicated liability issues. Mr Ward commenced his career at Ward and Partners with his father Kevin Ward prior to establishing his own firm Ward and Ward with his wife Amanda in 1993. Mr Ward was President of the Law Society of South Australia in 2004-05 and during this time was a member of several Law Society Committees including those mentoring indigenous law students, and those addressing community relations and professional standards. He is currently a member of the Law Society's Ethics and Practice Committee. He is a legal officer in the Royal Australian Navy and practices in Military and Discipline law, and is chair of the ADF Defence Legal Ethics Advisory Committee.


James Marcus, Barrister, Len King Chambers
James was admitted to practice in 2012 and practiced as a general legal advisor and criminal defence lawyer for five years before joining the South Australia Office of the Director of Public Prosecution as a trial prosecutor in 2017. James has experience as prosecutor and defence counsel in a wide range of serious and complex criminal matters in first instance and on appeal in all South Australian jurisdictions. James also has experience in administrative and commercial law providing advice and appearing as counsel in judicial and merit reviews of government decisions and in commercial litigation. In April 2019 James joined the independent bar and practices from Len King Chambers in all South Australian jurisdictions. James accepts briefs in criminal law and associated matters such as professional disciplinary, examinations, confiscation proceedings, intervention orders and control orders, administrative law, inquests and enquiries and commercial litigation. James also conducts appellate proceedings from all such matters. James is presently a member of the Law Society of South Australia Criminal Law Committee.