FORTHCOMING MEETINGS: NEW ZEALAND

 

 

Auckland

IPSANZ and NZ Bar Association jointly present:

Discussion Panel and Workshop

Litigation Practice - Where to now?

On Friday 30 July 2010 IPSANZ and the New Zealand Bar Association are pleased to present a joint panel discussion and workshop looking at the often contentious issue of how best to manage and run civil litigation in the High Court.
This will be a continuation of the New Zealand Bar Association’s "Litigation in Crisis – What Crisis?” seminar and pick up on the same themes.

The session will be chaired and moderated by Justice Annabelle Bennett of the Federal Court of Australia and a panel of eminent judges and litigators including Justice Fogarty (Chair of the Rules Committee); Jim Farmer QC and Julian Miles QC.

The panel’s discussion will cover a range of topics that focus on the often difficult issues of:

Case management and active judicial involvement	Fast track procedures
Managing relatively simple and complex cases	Early narrowing of issues and properly focused pleadings
Oral versus written evidence and advocacy	Discovery
Specialisation	Duty to cooperate

The purpose of the workshop will be to contrast and compare best practices in Australia and New Zealand and explore some of the perennial procedural problems that judges and parties’ solicitors and counsel face and come up with practical and workable solutions.

Moderator:       The Hon Justice Annabelle Bennett AO 

Justice Bennett is a Judge of the Federal Court of Australia. Prior to this, she practised as Senior Counsel at the Sydney Bar, specialising in intellectual property (with a particular focus on biotechnology), professional misconduct, commercial, and administrative law.

Speaker:         The Hon Justice John Fogarty
Justice Fogarty has been a High Court judge since 2003 and is based in Christchurch. He is the current Chair of the Rules Committee. Prior to his appointment to the bench he practised as Queen's Counsel specialising in competition law.

Commentators: 

Jim Farmer QC and Julian Miles QC are both senior members of the Bar with diverse practices. Both are former Presidents of the New Zealand Bar Association.

Date:               Friday 30 July 2010

 Time:              3.00 to 5.00 pm

Venue:            Simpson Grierson
Level 27, 88 Shortland Street

                         Auckland  New Zealand

Cost:                $30.00  members      (incl. 12.5% GST)                   
                         $40.00  non-members      (incl. 12.5% GST)    

            No refunds will be given for cancellations received after 23 July 2010

 RSVP:              Friday 23 July 2010 (Registration by facsimile or email) 

  Please return to: Monique Pearson 

New Zealand Bar Association, PO Box 631, Shortland Street

Auckland. Phone: 09 303 4515 Fax: 09 303 4516