Presenters

Seun Idowu, Partner, Hall & Wilcox
Seun works across the NSW and ACT jurisdictions and is a defendant insurance litigator with a speciality practice in health law, aged care and disability and sensitive issues including historical abuse. Seun provides her clients with proactive support on receipt of instructions including prompt investigation and early advice and recommendations designed to promote cost efficiency. Her rigorous approach to matters is tempered by her empathy. Her aim is to expeditiously resolve meritorious claims on best terms to the insurer and insured, and robustly defend unfounded and opportunistic claims. Prior to transitioning into private practice, Seun spent almost a decade working within the NSW public service including what was known as the Department of Ageing, Disability and Home Care. She provided legal and policy advice to Government and NGO stakeholders around issues concerning risk mitigation, ageing, disability, assault and trespass to vulnerable individuals, the National Disability Insurance Scheme, and home care.

Kevin Connor SC, Maurice Byers Chambers
Kevin Connor did medicine graduating in 1984 (MB BS Hons I). He also did neuroscience research in the laboratory of Professor Mark Rowe for which he was awarded a Bachelor of Medical Science. He practiced medicine in hospitals for three years - 1984, 1985 and 1986. Kevin completed the Barristers Admission Board Course in March 1986 (Dip Law). In 1987 and 1988 he was an Associate to Justice Mary Gaudron, who in February 1987 became the first woman to be appointed to the High Court of Australia. Kevin commenced practice at the New South Wales Bar in July 1989, first at 10 Selborne Chambers, and then from 1995 at Ten St James Hall Chambers, and from April 2000 at Maurice Byers Chambers on Level 60 of the MLC Building. He is interested in law generally, and continues to have an interest in neuroscience, particularly affective neuroscience. Kevin has been involved in cases in many different areas of the law, including tax, medical negligence, equity and trusts, commercial disputes, constitutional law, copyright, and professional disciplinary matters. In 2002 and 2003 Kevin was counsel assisting in the ICAC inquiry into the collapse of the New South Wales Grains Board. For a number of years in the 1990s Kevin lectured in the Admission Board Courses in the subjects of Torts, Equity and Trade Practices. Kevin was appointed Senior Counsel in 2007.