Thursday, 5 March 2026
Chair
Talitha Fishburn, Barrister, 4 Wentworth Chambers and Black Chambers
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
Professional Skills
Advocacy in Interlocutory Hearings
- Written advocacy/submissions
- Tailoring the approach to the audience/judge
- Oral advocacy and tips for preparation
- Offers of compromise and costs
Presented by Alexander Vial, Barrister, 5 Wentworth Chambers
Presenters
Alexander Vial, Barrister, 5 Wentworth Chambers
Alexander maintains a national practice in complex commercial and regulatory matters. He is recognised by Legal500 as a Leading Junior (Band 1) for competition law (2024, 2025, 2026), as a Leading Junior (Band 1) for white collar and regulatory matters (2024, 2025, 2026), and a Leading Junior for commercial disputes (2025, 2026). He is also recognised as “One to Watch in Australia” for competition law (2025, 2026) and commercial law (2026) by Best Lawyers. Alexander specialises in commercial and regulatory litigation that covers competition and consumer law, trade practices including franchising, class actions, insolvency, intellectual property, and employment law. Alexander regularly advises on and appears in regulatory investigations and enforcement matters, as well as in Royal Commissions and inquiries. Before being called to the Bar, Alexander was a Senior Associate at Clayton Utz in Sydney where he specialised in competition, consumer law, and regulatory investigations and litigation. Earlier in his career, Alexander served as the Associate to the Honourable Chief Justice Doyle AC of the Supreme Court of South Australia and, after his Honour’s retirement, the Associate to the Honourable Chief Justice Kourakis AC. Alexander’s education includes a Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) from the University of Oxford and a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) with First Class Honours from the University of Adelaide. Alexander is a founding author of Zuckerman on Australian Civil Procedure, a leading text on Australian civil procedure that is now in its second edition. He regularly publishes articles in a number of practitioner and academic journals.
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).
