Thursday, 26 February 2026
Chair
Conor Bannan, Barrister, 12 Wentworth Selbourne Chambers; Doyle's Guide preeminent Junior Counsel in Competition Law 2025
Greenwashing: The Regulation of Environment and Sustainability Claims
- Regulatory protections, initiatives and activity aimed at preventing greenwashing
- Key areas of risk, and practical steps to reduce risk, when making environmental or sustainability claims
- Recent cases involving greenwashing
Presented by Nick Christiansen, Partner, Sparke Helmore Lawyers
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
Presenters
Nick Christiansen, Partner, Sparke Helmore LawyersNick is Partner in the Commercial Disputes and Corporate Regulatory teams at Sparke Helmore. He is a commercial litigator and regulatory lawyer specialising in commercial and property disputes and consumer regulatory matters. He has a broad commercial litigation practice, including matters in contract, leasing and other real property disputes, equity and trusts, misleading and deceptive conduct, financing and securities disputes and enforcement, and insolvency and corporations law. He acts in property matters for “big 4” banks, private lenders and investment vehicles, government entities, developers, insolvency practitioners, and large-scale lessors and lessees.
Conor Bannan, Barrister, 12 Wentworth Selbourne Chambers
Conor has a broad commercial practice with particular expertise in trade practices and competition. He has been briefed to appear for an individual in Australia’s first criminal cartel jury trial, for TPG (in proceedings concerning its proposed merger with Vodafone), for Apple Inc (in proceedings brought by Epic Games and in related class action proceedings), for Facebook Inc (in proceedings brought by a developer), for Mazda Australia (in class action proceedings relating to the use of Takata airbags) and for the ANZ Banking Group (in the Banking Royal Commission and in various litigation in the Supreme Court of New South Wales). Before being called to the Bar, Conor worked as a solicitor at Mallesons Stephen Jaques and Gilbert + Tobin in Sydney, and at Linklaters in London. During that time, he also completed secondments to Westpac Banking Corporation and The Royal Bank of Scotland plc. Conor has been recognised in several legal directories (Chambers and Partners, Doyles Guide, Legal 500, Best Lawyers) as a leading junior counsel in competition law and in commercial litigation.
