Wednesday, 26 November 2025
Understanding WHS Duties Towards Children and Adolescents
- What are the duties and who has them
- Ways in which your health and safety duty to children and adolescents can be discharged
- Exposure of duty holders when failing in that duty
Presented by Patrick Barry, Barrister, State Chambers
Chair
Gregory Burton SC, 5 Wentworth Chambers
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD unit in Substantive Law
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
Presenters
Gregory Burton SC, 5 Wentworth ChambersGregory Burton SC FCIArb FRI TEP practises primarily in commercial/equity matters, at trial and appellate levels, from 5 Wentworth Chambers, with a focus on corporations, finance and securities, insolvency, insurance, trusts, property (intellectual, personal, real) and succession/family provision. He took silk in 2004. He is also a long-standing mediator and arbitrator, expert determiner, and domain name dispute determiner for auDA. He edits and co-authors a banking and finance law journal and text, and has authored and edited books, articles and commentary, and speaks, on aspects of commercial law/equity, public law, evidence and practice/ethics and ADR. He is Procurator (church counsel) for the Presbyterian Church of Australia, federally and in some States, chairs and has chaired or been a member of dispute or discipline panels for various organisations and holds a part-time tribunal appointment (primary and appellate).
Patrick Barry, Barrister, State Chambers
Patrick has a national practice specialising in workplace health and safety law (including National Heavy Vehicle and mining prosecutions), employment law, and appearing at inquests. Patrick regularly appears as sole counsel and opposed to Senior Counsel in matters at first instance and on appeal in courts and tribunals across all Australian jurisdictions. His practice focuses principally on defending corporate entities and individuals in workplace safety prosecutions across a range of industries including construction, mining, petroleum and gas, manufacturing, aviation and road transport. He also appears for employers in a variety of employment disputes. Patrick is recognised as among the leading Workplace Safety barristers in New South Wales and South Australia in Doyle’s Guide, consecutively from 2017. Prior to being called to the Bar in 2014, Patrick practised as a solicitor at Freehills and K& L Gates. Patrick also holds a Master in Historical Studies from the University of Oxford.
