Wednesday, 25 February 2026
Chair
Olivia Grobtuch, Principal, Kennedy Partners; Accredited Specialist in Family Law; Preeminent Family & Divorce Lawyer and Preeminent Family Lawyer (High-Value & Complex Property Matters) Victoria, Doyle’s Guide 2025
Professional Skills
Drafting Affidavits: Avoiding Pitfalls and Maximising Impact
Affidavits in family law must be precise, relevant and persuasive. In this session, a former judge of the Appeal Division of the Family Court and a senior practitioner share practical guidance to help you avoid common traps and strengthen your written advocacy.
Presented by The Hon Peter Tree KC, Mediator, Waratah Chambers and Holmes List
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
Presenters
Olivia Grobtuch, Principal, Kennedy PartnersOlivia Grobtuch is a founding partner of Kennedy Partners, one of Doyles Guide "top tier" Melbourne firms. She is a member of the Family Law Section of the Law Institute of Victoria and the Family Law Section of the Law Council of Australia. Olivia has been practising in family law for over 40 years. She obtained her accreditation as a family law specialist in 1990 and has been a member of various committees of the Law Institute of Victoria including sub-committees dealing with family law reform. She has presented numerous papers relating to specialist family law topics and has regularly attended family law conferences in both the national and international arenas. She has been involved in a number of important matters in the High Court of Australia, and has also worked extensively on international family law matters, and is a fellow of the International Academy of Family Lawyers.
The Hon Peter Tree KC, Mediator, Waratah Chambers and Holmes List
Prior to his appointment as a Judge, Peter conducted a broad practice as a silk throughout Australia. In 2013 he was appointed as a Judge of the Family Court of Australia and in 2019 assigned to the Appeal Division of that court. In 2024 Peter was appointed an acting judge of the Family Court of Western Australia until the end of the year, at which time he returned to the bar, where he conducts mediations and arbitrations, as well as providing advice within areas of expertise.
