The Piddington Society and The Family Law Practiioners' Association of Western Australia are pleased to present the first session of Family Law Advocacy 2026.
Cross Examining the Single Expert Winess in Parenting Disputes Seminar
Single expert evidence frequently sits at the centre of parenting disputes. This twilight seminar offers practitioners an in-depth analysis of single expert witness family reports - examining how they are constructed, what assumptions they carry, and how they should be read by a family lawyer preparing for trial.
This session stands alone as an optional evening event and may be attended independently. It also serves as an ideal foundation for practitioners registering for the Family Law Advocacy Intensive in July.
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The session will be presented by Teresa Farmer SC from John Toohey Chambers.
From 1997 to 2007 Teresa was employed at Paterson & Dowding. In 1999 Teresa undertook five year Articles with the firm - gaining admission to legal practice in 2003. Teresa became an Associate of Paterson & Dowding in 2004. In June 2007 Teresa commenced practice as barrister at John Toohey Chambers principally in the areas of Family Law and De Facto matters and related Appeal work. Teresa also chairs mediation-style conferences in family law. Teresa was the President of the Family Law Practitioners' Association of WA (Inc) for three years between 2012 and 2015 and is a former member of the Western Australian Amateur Football League Tribunal. In 2016 Teresa was awarded the Women Lawyer of the Year Award for Western Australia. Teresa was appointed Senior Counsel in October 2023.
Continuing to the Family Law Advocacy Intensive?
Optional but recommended: Practitioners attending the July Advocacy Intensive are encouraged to attend this session as preparatory grounding in the expert evidence framework. The full workshop continues in July - a pre-course seminar on 9 July, followed by the two-day Advocacy Intensive on 17–18 July 2026. See here for details:
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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 '0000' in the box on the booking form.
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Like all Piddington events, your attendance, engagement and support goes toward supporting funding Piddington's access to justice projects. These are: the Piddington PLT Fund, which supports the community legal centres (CLCs) that host Piddington PLT graduates to complete their hours required for admission; the Piddington Justice Fund for CLCs, to cover costs that they otherwise cannot meet; and, Kaartdijin, our First Nations Legal Education Fund. We also fund the Christine Wheeler PLT Scholarship and John Chaney Award for new law graduates and law students.
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).
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