Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD hour in Professional Skills
This program is based on NSW legislation
Professional Skills
Tips & Tricks with Mediation in Estate Litigation: Perspectives from a Mediator and a Solicitor
- When to mediate? Selecting a mediator, face to face, collaborative online, audiovisual teleconferencing or a hybrid form?
- Barristers: Why brief? When to brief? Benefits for clients and contributions to mediation process
- Mediation preparation: promoting process to clients, mediation and confidentiality agreements, position papers and opening statements
- Support persons: their role and place in a mediation
- Disclosing new information, evidence or claims: when and how to address (and respond) fairly and effectively
- What is the meaning of a “good faith” mediation?
- Making the most of the mediator during mediation
- Delightful and difficult opponents: mediation styes and strategies
Presented by Asheetha Jelliffe, Partner, Bridges Lawyers; Accredited Specialist, Wills and Estates Law; recognised as Preeminent Estate Litigation Lawyer- New South Wales, Doyle’s Guide 2024, and Martin Gorrick, Mediator, Gorrick Mediations
Chair
Monica Ross-Maranik, Consulting Principal, Keypoint Law; Accredited Specialist, Wills and Estates Law
Presenters
Asheetha Jelliffe, Partner, Bridges Lawyers
Asheetha was admitted to practice in 2003. She has over 20 years' experience in Wills and Estates Law and became an Accredited Specialist in 2011. She is appointed by the Law Society of NSW as a member of the Advisory Committee for Specialist Accreditation in Wills and Estates, as is the Head Assessor of that committee. Although her main area of practice is in contested estate litigation, including testamentary capacity matters, family provision cases and other trust and estate administration suits, she has utilised that experience in her growing estate planning practice. She also has experience in Elder Law related issues and applying for 'out of the ordinary' grants of probate and letters of administration. Asheetha has been appointed as a Court Appointed Administrator for estates. She is a regular presenter at seminars and workshops in the areas of Wills and Estates law. Asheetha is a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners. Asheetha has been listed in the 2024 Doyles Guide's lists of Preeminent Estates Litigation Lawyers and Leading Wills Estates & Succession Planning Lawyers in NSW.
Monica Ross-Maranik, Consulting Principal, Keypoint Law
Monica is an accredited specialist in wills and estates law in NSW, working predominately in estate litigation, probate, estate administration and estate planning. She has over 29 years’ practise in the field, including extensive experience conducting high profile litigation which she undertakes with compassion and strategic reasoning. Monica’s areas of expertise include: Wills and estate planning, contested probate litigation, Family provision litigation, Probate and estate administration, other estate and equity litigation, Trusts and trust litigation, Enduring powers of attorney, Enduring guardianships and Protective jurisdiction advice and litigation including court authorised wills. Monica holds a Master of Laws from Sydney University and is a current member of the International Society of Trust.
Martin Gorrick, Mediator, Gorrick Mediations
Martin practiced at the Sydney Bar from 1989 to 2016, principally in property, equity, succession and ‘elder’ law. Between 2006 and 2016 Martin was the lecturer in Succession Law at UTS. Martin relinquished his barrister’s practice in 2016. Since that time he has worked exclusively as a mediator: regularly conducting private and court appointed mediations, principally in the areas of real property, succession and elder law.
