Wednesday, 11 March 2026
Chair
Scott Whitla, Partner, McCullough Robertson Lawyers; Accredited Specialist in Succession Law; Preeminent Wills & Estates Litigation Lawyer, Doyle’s Guide 2025
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
Where Worlds Collide: How to Manage Multiple Claims Against a Single Estate
- Using real life scenarios explore the strategies and skills you need for responding to concurrent disputes involving the same estate
- Learn how to address key considerations
- Understand that different alternative dispute resolution methods may affect outcomes across the spectrum of claims
- Gain practical strategies for advising and communicating with clients, managing timing and coordinating an effective approach when multiple estate claims arise
Panellists:
Karen Gaston, Barrister, George Street Chambers; Preeminent Wills & Estates Litigation Junior Counsel, Doyle’s Guide 2025
Prue Poole, Director, Cornford-Scott Lawyers; Preeminent Wills, Estates & Succession Planning Lawyer, Doyle’s Guide 2025; Accredited Specialist in Succession Law
Neal Dallas, Director, Business Depot Legal; Recommended Wills, Estates & Succession Planning Lawyer, Doyle’s Guide 2025; Best Lawyers 2025, Superannuation, Tax Law, Wills, Estates and Succession Planning Law
Presenters
Scott Whitla, Partner, McCullough Robertson Lawyers
Scott Whitla is a partner with McCullough Robertson Lawyers, heading up its Equity and Private Client group. Prior to practicing as a solicitor, Scott previously worked in the financial services industry with financial planners and business bankers. He is a QLS accredited specialist in Succession Law and his practice areas include interpretation and contesting of wills, equitable claims and family provision applications, tax effective succession planning, estate administration and applications to QCAT.
Karen Gaston, Barrister, George Street Chambers
Karen has experience conducting complex, lengthy litigation usually with the overlay of an emotional family dispute. In particular she has substantial experience running family provision applications, litigation about the validity of wills (sometimes called solemn form probate litigation), applications concerning the construction of wills, Beddoe applications, power of attorney disputes, and equity litigation involving unconscionable conduct and undue influence. Karen is a Queensland Law Society accredited specialist in succession law. Doyle’s Guide recognises Karen as “Preeminent” in the Wills and Estate Litigation Lawyers category in 2020 and 2021. Karen works as a team with a solicitor, to represent a client. She does not accept briefs directly from the general public. Karen can, however, provide a list of referrals to highly regarded solicitors who can assist members of the public directly.
Neal Dallas, Director, Business Depot Legal
Neal Dallas is a Director at Business Depot Legal. He has extensive experience advising clients in the areas of superannuation, tax, estate planning and asset protection. He is recognised in the 2023 Edition of Best Lawyers in Australia in the areas of Superannuation Law, Tax Law, Trusts and Estates, and Wealth Management/Succession Planning Practice.
Prue Poole, Director, Cornford-Scott Lawyers
Prue Poole was admitted as a solicitor in 2002 and qualified as the highest achiever in Specialist Accreditation in Succession Law in 2011. Prue is currently a Director of Cornford-Scott Lawyers after being a partner at McInnes Wilson Lawyers for over five years. As an accredited specialist, Prue has experience in all areas of succession law with particular expertise in Estate Administration and Estate Litigation. Prue advises executors, beneficiaries, trustee companies and other law firms on succession matters and is often appointed by the Supreme Court of Queensland as the independent administrator of deceased estates. Prue has consistently been recognised for her expertise in Best Lawyers Australia and Doyle’s Guide.
