Friday, 28 February 2025
Hearsay Rule and Practical Guide to Establishing the Exception to the Hearsay Rule
Get practical, courtroom-ready strategies for managing hearsay evidence. Michelle Painter SC guides you through the key principles of the hearsay rule and how to effectively establish exceptions to ensure critical evidence is admitted.
Presented by Michelle Painter SC, Barrister, Nine Selborne Chambers; Recommended Wills & Estates Litigation Senior Counsel, Doyle’s Guide 2024
Description
Attend and earn 0.5 CPD hour in Substantive Law
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
Chair
Vera Culkoff, Barrister, 2 Selborne Chambers
Presenters
Michelle Painter SC, Barrister, Nine Selborne ChambersMichelle is an experienced senior counsel who practices in succession and family provision matters for estates and for plaintiffs, as well as in equity, trusts, commercial law and family law property matters. She specialises in large and significant disputes and has earned a reputation for her forceful advocacy and her ability to quickly absorb large amounts of information across document heavy matters. She has been listed again by Doyle’s Guide 2026 as a Recommended Wills & Estates Litigation Senior Counsel for NSW. She has been involved for many years with the NSW Bar Association’s Bar Practice Course, where she presents on the art of cross examination.
Vera Culkoff, Barrister, 2 Selbourne Chambers
Vera Culkoff graduated in law from the University of Technology, Sydney in early 1990 with First Class Honours and the University Medal. Her practice is in commercial law and equity, with an emphasis in building and construction disputes. Such proceedings have commonly involved complex contractual disputes, misleading and deceptive allegations and the Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act 1999 (NSW). She also practices in the area of wills, probate and family provisions disputes, involving complex issues and large estates. She has experience in class actions, having been involved in commercial class actions against Westpac, ANZ, AMP and GIO. Vera has been involved in litigation on both sides of the fence: having worked at Clayton Utz doing defence work before joining Cashman & Partners and becoming an equity partner (now Maurice Blackburn). She remained a partner of the new firm until 2000, responsible for commercial and product liability litigation. She was called to the Bar in 2000. Vera was joint General Editor of the Australian Product Liability Reporter (from 2006 to 2011) and has conducted presentations at seminars on class actions and, whilst at the Bar, in building and construction law.
