Tuesday, 28 October 2025
Cross Claims: Apportionment of Liability and Insurance Issues in Institutional Abuse Claims
- Case study of WJT v Trustees of the Marist Brothers [2025] NSWSC1017 - Cross-claims and the placement of responsibility under contractual agreement
- Case study of Allianz Australia Insurance Ltd v Uniting Church in Australia Property Trust [2025] FCAFC 8 - insurance issues in institutional abuse claims
Presented by Shakvaan Wijetunga, Lawyer, Carroll & O’Dea Lawyers
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD unit in Substantive Law
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
Chair
Kate Stowell, Barrister, Svenson Barristers
Presenters
Shakvaan Wijetunga, Lawyer, Carroll & O’Dea LawyersShakvaan Wijetunga is a valued member of the Business team and the Community & Associations team at Carroll & O’Dea Lawyers, based in the firm’s Sydney office. He works across multiple and varied areas including property, commercial, IP and institutional abuse defence, reflecting his multi-disciplinary career in law and music. Shakvaan also assists with business formation & transactions, business regulation, entertainment law, shareholders & partnerships, estate planning, governance matters, professional standards and forming, restructuring & merging organisations.
Kate Stowell, Barrister, Svenson Barristers
Kate Stowell practises in common law, administrative law and family law. Kate has a significant practice in institutional abuse compensation, particularly matters involving child sexual abuse in State-run, religious and non-government institutions, including private schools and sporting organisations. In 2023, Kate was appointed by the Premier of Victoria as Junior Counsel Assisting the Board of Inquiry into historical child sexual abuse in Beaumaris Primary School and certain other government schools. In 2015, Kate represented survivors who gave evidence to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. Kate's administrative law practice focuses on the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) and review proceedings. Her family law practice includes intervention orders, parenting matters and child protection cases.
