Thursday, 5 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
Chair
Talitha Fishburn, Barrister, 4 Wentworth Chambers and Black Chambers
Professional Skills
Effective Oral and Written Submissions
- Begin from the finish line – why do it at all?
- Interconnection between affidavit evidence and submissions
- Focus on the audience
- Preparation is the key
- Being flexible
- Know your matter
Presented by Irina Hoskinson, Barrister, Latham Chambers
Presenters
Irina Hoskinson, Barrister, Latham Chambers
Irina commenced private practice in 2011. Irina was called to the Bar in 2016 and takes briefs to appear in Supreme Court, Federal Circuit and Family Court and other courts and tribunals. She appeared in family provision, probate, bankruptcy, corporate insolvency, general equity and family law matters. In 2020 Irina took a break from the Bar for 14 months and held a position as Probate Registrar in the Supreme Court of NSW. In that role she was making decisions in relation to complex probate and administration matters; she also sat as a Common Law and Equity Registrar and presided over corporations’ examinations. Upon her return to the Bar, Irina currently practices mainly in probate and family provision matters. Irina is a costs assessor and an associate lecturer at College of Law.
Talitha Fishburn, Barrister, 4 Wentworth Chambers and Black Chambers
Talitha was called to the Bar in 2012. Previously she was a solicitor at Allens Linklaters and Legal Counsel at Westpac. She has a broad practice with special interest in equity, trusts, property, civil litigation and family law. Talitha was educated at the University of Sydney (BA, LLB, LLM).
