Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD hour in Substantive law
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
*Original Content was created in September 2023
Chair
Caroline Counsel, Principal, Caroline Counsel Family Lawyers; Accredited Specialist in Family Law; Member of the Ethics Committee of the Law Institute of Victoria
Affidavits: Rules of Evidence, Privilege and What’s Needed for Different Applications
- Refresher of the rules of evidence: hearsay, opinion, relevance
- Privilege: don’t inadvertently waive LPP and don’t include confidential communications between the parties
- What you should cover when drafting affidavits in support of common types of applications:
- Parenting: division of time between parents
- Parenting: risk issues
- Property: part property settlement/litigation funding
- Property: spousal maintenance
- Property: division of assets (the four-step process)
Presented by Robyn Wheeler, Barrister, Foley’s List
Presenters
Robyn Wheeler, Barrister, Foley’s List
Robyn is an experienced trial advocate. She is well known for her papers and presentations for the LIV and other organisations. Her practice involves complex property and children cases, appellate work and she conducts successful mediations. Prior to being called to the bar Robyn was a partner in a national firm heading the Family Law section. Robyn has a particular interest in Equitable interests and “farming cases” given her background. Robyn’s practice has taken her interstate on circuits and to a number of other registries of the Family Court and the Federal Circuit Court. In her spare time she likes nothing better than to ride a fine horse or fly down a fresh run of powdered snow.
Caroline Counsel, Principal, Caroline Counsel Family Lawyers
Caroline Counsel is the principal of Caroline Counsel Family Lawyers: Better Families, Brighter Futures. She is an Accredited Family Law Specialist, trained as a Collaborative Lawyer and Mediator & Arbitrator and Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner of some 35+ years’ experience. Caroline is a Past President of the Law Institute of Victoria (2011) and Honorary Life Member. Caroline has been a Board member of the LIV, LCA and has been Co-Chair of the LIV’s Collaborative Practice Section and presently holds the Family Violence Portfolio for the Institute as well as Co-Chair of the Family Violence Working Group at the LIV. Caroline is a State government appointed member of the Industry Taskforce on Family Violence. She is one of the inaugural board members of the Victorian Legal Admissions Board (appointed by Victorian Attorney General June 2015) and still sits on the VLAB Board as well as the Admissions Committee.
