Date Change: Conversation on Current Issues in the Practice of Employment and Industrial Law

15/09/2022

The Federal Court of Australia invites practitioners to a Conversation on Current Issues in the Practice of Employment and Industrial Law, hosted by the Hon. Justice Mordy Bromberg at 5.30pm (Sydney time) on 29 September 2022.

There will be a welcome by Chief Justice James Allsop followed by three short presentations by Western Australian and New South Wales practitioners and Registrars of the Federal Court:

• What happened and why it matters: The High Court decisions in CFMMEU v Personnel Contracting and ZG v Jamsek – John Blackburn SC (WA Bar) and Duncan Fletcher (Kingston Reid)
• At what price certainty? Mediating employment and industrial matters in the Federal Court – Senior National Judicial Registrar Jenni Priestley and National Judicial Registrar Tim Luxton (Federal Court)
• Positive duty amendments arising from the Respect@Work Report – Vanja Bulut (NSW Bar) and Maria Nawaz (Grata Fund)

The seminar will be held in person in the Sydney (Court 1) and Perth registries of the Federal Court. A Cisco link can also be provided to those joining online.

Please RSVP to Ms Elizabeth Sotiriadis at ea.brombergj@fedcourt.gov.au by Thursday, 22 September 2022 indicating whether you will be attending in-person (Perth or Sydney) or online. Irrespective of whether you have sent an RSVP for the original date, it would be appreciated if you could RSVP to indicate whether you will be attending on 29 September.

The Bar Association’s Industrial, Employment, Health and Safety Committee is assisting the Court with the event and the Committee’s Co-Chairs, Bruce Hodgkinson AM SC and Yaseen Shariff SC encourage attendance.