Overview

As a lawyer, getting the right compensation for your client is only the beginning; you also have a responsibility to provide advice on how to make that compensation last. This seminar will provide you with information on how to meet your post-settlement/trial obligations to your clients, and give guidance on how you can look after yourself – both financially and mentally – while tackling the challenges that often arise for those leading busy professional lives.

On 6 August 2018, Practice Direction No. 15 of 2018 was released by the Chief Justice. This seminar will include the important changes to procedures for the sanctioning of settlements and identifies new material that must be presented as part of an application.

This is a seminar that all practitioners, particularly those specialising in the area, should not miss.

Delegates will be provided with a hot breakfast and will also be able to claim up to 1.5 CLE points.

Seminar Program

• 7:30am - The new practice direction and appointing a parent as an administrator or trustee - Gerard Mullins, Darrow Chambers
• 8:00am - Funds management for the middle aged client: maximising the return on settlement and other benefits - Jane Campbell, Principal, Aeran
• 8:30am - Family, career, money, and mental health: the pressure of professional life - Associate Professor Saddichha Sahoo, Consultant Psychiatrist at Red Health
  

More about our speakers below:

Gerard Mullins, Barrister, Darrow Chambers

Gerard Mullins is a Barrister admitted to practice in 1988 and has practiced at the private Bar since that time.

He has a Bachelor of Laws from the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and a Master of Laws from the University of Queensland. He lectured and tutored in tort law in the Bachelor of Law course at QUT between 1991 and 1998 and lectured in the Masters program at QUT after that time.

Jane Campbell, Principal, Aeran Pty Ltd

Jane Campbell is the Principal of Aeran Pty Ltd, an independent financial advice business that specialises in financial advice to plaintiffs.
Jane has more than 25 years’ experience in injury compensation, starting out in workers compensation, then insurance litigation, then lobbying to improve tax outcomes for plaintiffs.
For the past 14 years Jane has been providing financial advice to seriously injured plaintiffs.
Jane decided to start her own independent business so that she could guarantee a client-first approach to advice, investments and service. The business now employs 10 and is steadily growing.
Jane is a Certified Financial Planner and maintains her qualifications as a lawyer.
She partners with Australian Executor Trustees Limited in cases where a trustee company is required.

Associate Professor Saddichha Sahoo, Consultant Psychiatrist at Red Health

Associate Professor Saddichha Sahoo is a Clinical Director and Consultant Psychiatrist at Ipswich General Hospital, as well as an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Queensland.

A/Prof Sahoo carries international experience, having practiced as a Senior Psychiatrist at Vancouver Coastal Health, and as a Clinical Fellow at the Department of Psychiatry at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. He specialises in a range of assessment areas including Anxiety, Depression, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Addiction. He is well-versed in providing efficient and decisive medico-legal reports.

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