Chair:
Alexander Ward AM, Barrister, Edmund Barton Chambers
Personal Injury Update
This essential session will keep you up to date on the latest developments in personal injury law. Covering motor vehicle accidents, public liability, workers compensation, and institutional abuse claims, this packed session will provide you with the latest information and strategies to confidently tackle personal injury matters in the year ahead.
Presented by Tony Kerin, Partner, Grope Hamilton Lawyers
Attend and earn 1 CPD unit in Substantive Law
Presenters
Tony Kerin, Partner, Grope Hamilton Lawyers
Tony is a partner at Grope Hamilton Lawyers and has been a lawyer since 1985. Tony has practiced over broad areas of law until the later 1990's when he began to specialise in personal injuries litigation, WorkCover, criminal and employment law. He has worked as a managing partner of leading plaintiff law firms Johnston Withers in the past for the best part of 30 years and also helped Maurice Blackburn set up its office in Adelaide, in recent times. With management behind him, Tony has returned to practice as a solicitor and barrister and has held the position of State President of the Australian Lawyers Alliance SA Branch for 9 years, National Director for a similar period and National President in the years 2012 and 2013. Tony has acted for a number of institutional and sexual abuse clients and continues to be passionate about the practice of the law for individuals in particular.
Alexander Ward AM, Barrister, Edmund Barton Chambers
President of the Law Council of Australia, Alexander Ward has 39 year’s 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. He appears in the SAET. Mr Ward was President of the Law Society of South Australia in 2004-05. He was a member of several Law Society Committees including those mentoring indigenous law students, and ethics and professional standards. He was a member of the Law Society's Ethics and Practice Committee. He is a legal officer in the Royal Australian Navy (Commander) and is an Assistant Inspector General of the ADF. CMDR Ward was Chair of the ADF Defence Legal Ethics Advisory Committee. He became a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in 2024.