Friday, 20 February 2026
Class Actions and the Resolution of Claims Arising out of Defective Medical Products
- Procedural and choice of law complications in product liability and mass tort claims
- Problems of causation
- Difficulties in seeking to quantify the claims of the class
- Procedural shortcuts for the determination of liability
- Settlement distribution schemes: the good, the bad and the ugly
Presented by Dr. Peter Cashman, Barrister, Third Floor Wentworth Chambers; Adjunct Professor of Law, University of New South Wales Faculty of Law & Justice; Best Lawyers 2019-2026, Class Action Litigation
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD unit in Substantive Law
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
Chair
Dr. Peter Cashman, Barrister, Third Floor Wentworth Chambers; Adjunct Professor of Law, University of New South Wales Faculty of Law & Justice; Best Lawyers 2019-2026, Class Action Litigation
Presenters
Dr Peter Cashman, Barrister, 3 Wentworth Chambers
Dr Peter Cashman is a barrister at 3 Wentworth Chambers in Sydney, former Professor of Law (Social Justice) University of Sydney Law School, currently Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Law & Justice, University of New South Wales. He was formerly: Commissioner in charge of the civil justice review with the Victorian Law Reform Commission; Commissioner jointly in charge (with Justice John Basten) of the reference on class actions with the Australian Law Reform Commission; founding Director of the Public Interest Advocacy Centre; founder and senior partner of the firm Cashman & Partners which merged with the Melbourne firm Maurice Blackburn & Co to form the national firm Maurice Blackburn Cashman (now Maurice Blackburn Pty Ltd); Governor of the American Trial Lawyers' Association (now the American Association for Justice) and National President of the Australian Plaintiff Lawyers' Association (now the Australian Lawyers Alliance). He holds a degree in law and a diploma in criminology from the University of Melbourne and a Master of Laws degree and a PhD from the University of London. He has practised law in the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia and is the author of numerous publications, including Class Action Law and Practice, The Federation Press, 2007.
