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CIVIL LITIGATION SKILLS AND ADVOCACY WORKSHOPS - PART A

Name: CIVIL LITIGATION SKILLS AND ADVOCACY WORKSHOPS - PART A
Start: 2025-11-18T17:00:00+08:00
End: 2025-11-18T17:00:00+08:00
Location: Various, advised in due course

CIVIL LITIGATION SKILLS AND ADVOCACY WORKSHOPS COURSE PARTS A & B 2026/2027

Background

The Piddington Society, with support from Curtin Law School are pleased to offer this advanced course, which was developed by the Hon Graeme Murphy SC and C L Zelestis KC. The course will be offered again over 2026 and 2027 with a first general introduction and launch seminar being held on 18 November 2025.

Part A (to be run during 2026) comprises of 2 elements:

• 6 detailed papers (over 250 pages) addressing legal analysis, legal writing, pleadings (including over 60 pages of sample pleadings), grounds of appeal and review (including 38 sample grounds covering multiple appealable or reviewable errors), construction of commercial contracts and construction of statutes, which will be presented at a first general seminar on 18 November 2025;

• 6 interactive problem-solving seminars presented across 2026, in which participants are to prepare short legal documents 2 reflecting their analysis of 8 problems, the materials for which include detailed outlines of the relevant law and model versions for the relevant documents (the latter are provided during the seminars).

Part B (to be run during 2027) will comprise of:

• 3 problem-solving seminars, with problems of increasing difficulty (relating to informal contracts, agency, fiduciary duties, guarantees, undue influence and unconscionable conduct), which are designed to assist participants to further develop their skills in legal analysis, legal writing and their knowledge of these areas of the law;

• an appellate advocacy exercise (based on a concept provided by the Hon Justice John Vaughan) within which participants will prepare grounds of appeal and written submissions for the appeal and present oral submissions to mock appellate corams comprising sitting or retired superior courts judges and silks.

Format:

Each Masterclass exercise will be conducted by 2 presenters who are sitting or retired superior court judges, or silks, each of whom will share their insights into the technique of legal analysis.

The dates and locations of the six 2026 seminars will be communicated shortly.

CPD Points:
In addition to 2 interactive CPD points for each of the 2 hour workshops, participants who prepare and submit written work will be entitled to up to 4 interactive CPD points for doing so (i.e. 1 point per hour for up to 4 hours of analysis and document preparation).

Details:

The first introduction seminar will be held on 18 November 2025 followed by collegiality.

Location - Federal Court of Australia, Victoria Ave, Perth.

Time - 5PM

We welcome you to secure your place by purchasing a ticket to the course by 17 October 2025. The cost of the entirety of Part A is $890 inclusive of GST.

Note:

Practitioner ID numbers are issued by the Legal Practice Board of Western Australia. Information from the Board is available here. We require these to issue CPD certificates. If you do not want a CPD certificate, please put '00000' in the box on the booking form.

This program is delivered by The Piddington Society, an accredited CPD Provider approved by the Legal Practice Board of Western Australia. CPD schemes in other Australian jurisdictions do not accredit or pre-approve providers or courses. As a result, practitioners outside Western Australia must self-assess this activity against the CPD rules in their home jurisdiction and determine whether it meets their professional development obligations. Certificates of completion are issued to assist with record-keeping, but the final decision as to compliance rests with the individual practitioner and their local regulator. Participants should also note that some jurisdictions impose caps on certain delivery modes (e.g. South Australia limits 5 units per CPD year for web-based/recorded programs).

CIVIL LITIGATION SKILLS AND ADVOCACY WORKSHOPS - PART A

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