Wednesday, 11 March 2026
Professional Skills
Practical and Professional Skills in Statutory Interpretation
- How to frame statutory arguments in litigation
- Drafting advice and statutory compliance for in-house and government lawyers
- Practical exercises in construing complex statutory provisions
Presented by James Stoller, Barrister, Ah Ket Chambers
Chair
Cathy Dowsett SC, Young’s 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

Cathy Dowsett SC, Young’s List
Cathy Dowsett SC practices in employment, discrimination, administrative law and regulatory proceedings. She has an appellate and trial practice. Cathy is regularly briefed in employment, equal opportunity and discrimination matters, primarily by employers, in matters arising in both the Federal and State jurisdictions. Her administrative law practice encompasses judicial review and merits review proceedings in relation to commonwealth workers compensation, veterans’ entitlements, the National Disability Insurance Scheme. Cathy also has Royal Commission and Board of Inquiry experience.
James Stoller, Barrister, Ah Ket Chambers
James specialises in proceedings involving government parties. He acts for and against government entities in judicial review proceedings and statutory appeals; professional disciplinary, licensing, and civil penalty proceedings; applications for regulatory injunctions; applications to stay regulatory action; planning and environmental cases; merits review proceedings; investigations and inquiries; common law cases involving government defendants; and statutory prosecutions in a regulatory context.