Lessons for Lawyers from Banksia
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About this event
In Bolitho v Banksia Securities Ltd (No 18) (remitter) [2021] VSC 666 (11 October 2021), Justice John Dixon catalogued a range of ‘egregious conduct that betrayed the solemn trust fundamental to the civil justice system’.
In this webinar, Professor Michael Legg and Associate Professor Genevieve Grant will discuss the lessons of the Banksia remitter judgment for practitioners. Haven’t had time to read all 700 pages of the decision? This webinar will highlight the key implications across civil procedure, litigation and legal ethics.
Speakers
Professor Michael Legg
Michael Legg is a Professor in the Faculty of Law, UNSW. He specialises in complex litigation, including regulatory litigation and class actions and in innovation in the legal profession. He is the author of Case Management and Complex Civil Litigation (2011) published by Federation Press, co-author of Principles of Civil Procedure in New South Wales (4th ed 2020) published by Thomson Reuters, co-author of Annotated Class Actions Legislation (2d ed 2018) published by LexisNexis and co-author of Artificial Intelligence and the Legal Profession published by Hart. He is also the editor of Regulation, Litigation and Enforcement (2011) published by Thomson Reuters and The Future of Dispute Resolution (2013) and Resolving Civil Disputes (2016), both published by LexisNexis and The Impact of Technology and Innovation on the Well-Being of the Legal Profession published by Intersentia.
His research has been cited in judgments from the Federal Court of Australia, Supreme Court of New South Wales, Supreme Court of Victoria and Supreme Court of New Zealand, and in law reform reports by the Australian Law Reform Commission, Productivity Commission, NSW Law Reform Commission and Victorian Law Reform Commission.
Michael has 20 years of experience as a legal practitioner having worked with leading Australian and US law firms. He is admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of NSW, Federal Court of Australia, High Court of Australia and in the State and Federal courts of New York. He holds law degrees from UNSW (LLB), the University of California, Berkeley (LLM) and the University of Melbourne (PhD). He is the Director of the Law Society of NSW Future of Law and Innovation in the Profession (flip) research stream in the Allens Hub for Technology, Law and Innovation at UNSW Law. Michael is a member of the Law Council of Australia's Class Actions Committee and a member of the Law Society of NSW's Future Committee.
Associate Professor Genevieve Grant
Associate Professor Genevieve Grant is Director of the Australian Centre for Justice Innovation in the Law Faculty at Monash University. She is co-author of Luntz & Hambly's Torts: Cases, Legislation and Commentary (LexisNexis, 9th ed, 2021) and Victorian Statutory Compensation Systems (LexisNexis, 2021, with Jason Taliadoros).
Genevieve's research uses empirical methods to evaluate justice system performance, including the design and operation of dispute resolution, civil justice and injury compensation systems. This work cuts across the fields of litigation and dispute resolution, legal technology, injury compensation and legal ethics. Genevieve has experience investigating the perspectives of a range of stakeholders and users (including litigants, compensation claimants, users of online dispute resolution platforms, courts, family law disputants, consumers of legal services, medical examiners and administrative decision-makers).
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Monash Law Event Team
E-mail: law-engagement@monash.edu
