Celebrating NZ LAW’s 25th Anniversary Conference and NZ CA Annual General Meeting, Auckland
Date: 29 September, 2017
NZLaw 25th Anniversary Conference
AustLaw Members are invited to attend the NZLaw 25th Anniversary Conference, based in Aukland.
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Friday 29 September to Saturday 30 September. | ||
Start Time |
2:00pm Friday | ||
End Time |
3:30pm Saturday | ||
Venue |
Skycity Convention Centre | ||
Accommodation |
SKYCITY Hotel: Premium Rooms $225.00 Premium Suite $375.00 Skycity Hotel – online booking
SKYCITY Grand Hotel: Premium Luxury Rooms $255.00 Premium Luxury Suites $455.00 Skycity Grand Hotel – online booking
Please note: all accommodation will be released 28 August 2017 |
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Session Overview
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2:00pm Systemising Advice Legal practice is all about information communication, use and management. The Digital Paradigm enables improved and efficient use of information systems to commoditise basic and repetitive advice common to many legal issues. Legal Expert Systems – a subset of Artificial Intelligence – provide further opportunities to develop advice giving processes and systems. This presentation will discuss how Legal Expert Systems can be deployed, how they can be created and their possible application beyond the law office and in the Court system, thus enhancing access to justice. Judge David Harvey Evolution of Damages for Breach of Contact Two important recent decisions of the United Kingdom Supreme Court shed much light on the law of assessment of damages for breach of contract where what would otherwise appear to be a loss has been avoided by the receipt of a benefit. The Court examined whether the benefit was merely collateral or was closely enough related to the loss to amount to an avoidance of that loss. This presentation will examine the two cases and provide some comments on their reasoning and applicability in New Zealand. The cases are Swynson Ltd v Lowick Rose LLP [2017] UKSC 32 (reported at [2017] 2 WLR 1161 and Globalia Business Travel SAU of Spain v Fulton Shipping Inc of Panama (UKSC decision pending on appeal from [2016] 1 WLR 2540; [2015] EWCA Civ 1299). Prof Charles Rickett |
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Saturday |
9:00am Share Valuation Disputes How to plan for share value issues; drafting secure and effective disputes clauses in commercial agreements and when and how to use an independent expert. This seminar is useful for lawyers and accountants, and will cover the a-z of planning for share valuation issues, and how to ensure expert determination processes are efficient, valid and binding. Tim Lindsay, Lowndes Jordan and Jay Shaw, Grant Thornton 10:30am Being Your Authentic Self From his own personal story, author Harold Hillman will present the seven elements of authenticity and how they can influence successful outcomes through stronger connections at work. Hillman makes the case for ‘wholehearted’ leadership in the inherent tension between ‘fitting in’ and ‘standing out’. Participants will have an opportunity to do a self-inventory on the seven elements and determine which ones they need to strengthen. Dr Harold Hillman 1:00pm Rules in Communication How our biases influence communications, how to recognise when people are lying, generational differences in communication, and the importance of good tone, volume, and rate of speech Lance Burdett, Warn International, Communications, Safety and Resilience 2:30pm Dr Paul Wood is an expert in helping people be the best versions of themselves possible and overcoming the barriers that are holding them back. His TED talk was rated among the NZ Herald’s top ten TED talks to watch, he is a blogger for the Huffington Post, and regular contributor within the media. Yet at 18 Paul’s life was completely off the rails. Paul’s talk will be using this journey from delinquent to doctor to explore the process of transformational change and growth. Dr Paul Wood |
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Full Program and Social Program |
Registration to this event is free to AustLaw Members. Social programs and accommodation costs are additional. Download the Program including Social Program here. Download the Presenter Profiles here. |
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Registrations are due Friday 25th August 2017 to register, simply click here: Registrations On-line For any enquiries, please contact Heather Menzies at NZLaw. [email protected]
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