Thursday, 6 March 2025
Chair
Bettina Mangan SC, Francis Burt Chambers; Leading Insurance & Personal Injury Law Barristers, Doyle’s Guide 2024
Testimonials
Hands on practical presentations that are directly applicable to my day-to-day work as a personal injury solicitor. I will do this again regardless of what employer I may be with in the future.
Excellent, clear, concise, informative.
Description
Attend and earn 0.5 CPD hour in Substantive Law
This program is based on WA legislation
Negligence Claims in a Labour Hire Situation
- The duty of the “host employer”; is it the same as the duty of the employer?
- Apportionment of liability and recent decisions in the labour hire space
- What of pro hac vice?
Presented by Chris Rimmer, Partner, Sparke Helmore; Leading Compulsory Third Party Insurance Lawyers (Defendant), Doyle’s Guide 2023; Recommended Public and Product Liability Lawyers (Defendant), Doyle’s Guide 2023
Presenters
Bettina Mangan SC, Francis Burt ChambersBettina’s practice covers insurance, contract, general and professional negligence, professional disciplinary matters, occupational health and safety prosecutions and coronial inquiries, workers’ compensation and assessment of damages including in catastrophic personal injury and fatal accidents claims. Bettina provides legal opinions, including for insurers and, in support of applications for leave to compromise claims of persons under disability. She acts as counsel at trial and appeal hearings, as well as pre-trial conferences and mediations. Bettina provides strategic and liability advice on historic child abuse matters. Bettina has appeared as counsel in a variety of jurisdictions including the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, Coroner’s Court of Western Australia, District Court of Western Australia, High Court of Australia, State Administrative Tribunal of Western Australia, Supreme Court of the Northern Territory, and Supreme Court of Western Australia. Bettina completed the ACDC Mediators Course and accepts briefs as a mediator. She has acted as an independent arbiter on a private dispute. Bettina regularly presents papers for continuing legal education. Bettina is a member of WA Bar Chambers Limited Board of Directors (Francis Burt Chambers).
Chris Rimmer, Partner, Sparke Helmore
Chris Rimmer completed his law degree at the University of Western Australia in 1994 and was admitted as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Western Australia in 1996 and admitted to the High Court of Australia in 2001. Chris has been a partner at Jackson McDonald, Jarman McKenna (which he helped found) and Sparke Helmore for over 20 years. Chris has practised insurance law for nearly 25 years providing advice to insurers and their insureds across all classes of insurance including workers' compensation, public and product liability, CTP and professional indemnity. Chris provides pre-contractual advice to insurance brokers and their clients pertaining to insurance and indemnity risks and regularly appears as Counsel in the Arbitration Service, the District Court and in the Court of Appeal. Chris has a busy workers’ compensation practice and is well qualified to speak on his topic of ‘Establishing employer negligence’.
