Friday, 6 March 2026
Chair
Douglas Johnson, 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
Costs in the State Administrative Tribunal: Principles, Recent Cases and Practical Strategies
Explore the framework for cost applications under the State Administrative Tribunal Act 2004 (WA) and provide a practical guide to preparing and opposing such applications, covering:
- Foundational principles
- Recent case law and trends
- Jurisdictional-specific issues
- Criteria for cost orders
- Preparing and opposing a costs application
- Types of cost orders
- Strategic and practical considerations
- Looking forward
Presented by Richard Graham, Legal Practitioner Director, Graham & Associates Lawyers
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.
Richard Graham, Legal Practitioner Director, Graham & Associates Lawyers
Richard Graham is a legal practitioner director at Graham and Associates. He specialises in defamation, guardianship and administration in SAT and legal costs disputes. He is the author of Civil Procedure WA Magistrates Court, known as "The Magistrates Court Red Book". Richard is a member of 2 committees at the Law Society of WA. These are the Courts Committee and the Costs Committee.
