Monday, 30 March 2026
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD unit in Professional Skills
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
Professional Skills
Preparation for Party Mediation
- Preparing the case
- Best outcome v likely outcome
- Steps to achieve each outcome
- Preparing the client for:
- The mediation process
- Likely (realistic) outcome
- Costs of achieving outcome if not resolved at mediation
- Preparing yourself for:
- Client’s obstacles to reaching agreement
- Any practical blocks to achieving agreement
- Any third party involvement required to carry out Order/Agreement
Presented by Neil McGregor, Barrister, Brisbane Chambers
Chair
Peta Willoughby, Barrister, Level 16 Inns of Court
Presenters
Peta Willoughby, Barrister, Level 16 Inns of Court
Peta Willoughby is an experienced practitioner, predominantly in the areas of employment, industrial relations and safety law. She was called to the Queensland Bar in 2021 and represents both employees and employers across all industries and government. Peta is recognised by Doyle’s Guide as a recommended practitioner in the area of employment and safety in Queensland. She has a particular interest in dispute resolution, regulatory and civil litigation.
Neil McGregor, Barrister, Brisbane Chambers
As a highly experienced barrister in Brisbane, Neil McGregor appreciates the challenge of family law trial work and advocacy. Neil was admitted as a barrister and solicitor in New Zealand in 1974 before moving to Australia. In Queensland, he was admitted as a solicitor in 1980, and then a barrister in 1984. He is a nationally accredited Mediator and an Arbitrator under s.10M of the Family Law Act 1975. Whilst specialising predominantly in the field of Family Law for more than 25 years, Neil's career includes a wide range of disciplines including drawing Wills and contracts; conveyancing and complex commercial transactions; criminal work (trial and appellate); personal injuries; and civil, commercial and property litigation. Throughout his career, Neil has contributed to a number of publications such as Butterworth's Court Forms and Pleadings Queensland, and was a reporter for the Queensland Reports. He regularly presents and speaks at specialist legal conferences and seminars on the many facets that make up Family Law.
