Friday, 6 March 2026
Chair
Douglas Johnson, Barrister, Francis Burt Chambers
State Administrative Tribunal: Jurisdiction and Procedures
- Consider the limits of SAT’s administrative jurisdiction and enforcement of orders
- Case study: consider building complaints and remediation orders
- Discussion regarding review and appeal jurisdiction
Presented by James Healy, Barrister, Francis Burt Chambers
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD unit in Substantive Law
This program is based on WA legislation
* 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
Douglas Johnson, Barrister, Francis Burt ChambersDoug is a barrister at Francis Burt Chambers. He maintains a broad commercial litigation and arbitration practice, with particular expertise in the areas of construction and engineering, insurance, and professional liability disputes. He is often instructed on highly technical cases involving complex factual and expert evidence. Clients value Doug’s accessibility and collaborative approach, both as sole counsel and when led as part of a team of barristers. Doug recently received the Tom Yuncken Australian Construction Lawyer award for 2023, where his referees emphasised his work ethic, creative thinking, and technical knowledge. Before being called to the bar, Doug worked in the dispute resolution teams at Jones Day and King & Wood Mallesons. He also practiced insurance litigation at Moray & Agnew.
James Healy, Barrister, Francis Burt Chambers
James specialises in resources and construction disputes, acting at various times for all of the proponents in such projects. Prior to joining the bar in 2010, James was a partner of Middletons (now K&L Gates) and assisted clients with all commercial and contentious aspects of the development of resources projects in Australia, the Asia Pacific and Africa. His practice focuses on complex contractual disputes with respect to major construction and engineering projects and infrastructure. This has included acting for parties in LCIA and SIAC international arbitrations. That work has seen him work extensively with delay and quantum experts and collating the supporting lay evidence. He has also acted as counsel in respect to a number of the leading cases on enforcement of determinations under the Construction Contracts Act 2004 (WA). Doyles Guide and AFR’s Best Lawyers regularly peer reviews James as a leading WA junior counsel.
