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Quality learning opportunities for your career success
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This Friday will mark the middle of March already. Along with another year starting to skip by at an alarming rate, it also means the end of the Continuing Professional Development (CPD) year. LawInform, our online platform for all your CPD needs, has a stimulating and enriching variety of courses for those who set time aside in this part of the year to complete their annual CPD requirements. Continue reading >
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Reminder: CPD year concludes on 31 March 2025
There are a few weeks remaining of the current CPD year, concluding on 31 March 2025. It is a statutory condition of a practising certificate to comply with CPD and you will be asked to declare your CPD compliance as part of your practising certificate renewal. If you are eligible to apply for an exemption from your CPD requirements for the current CPD year (ending 31 March 2025), you can do so by completing our online form. Visit our CPD page for more information.
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Appointment of Magistrate & Deputy State Coroner Elizabeth Ryan & Magistrate Imad Abdul-Karim as Judges of the District Court of NSW
Magistrate and Deputy State Coroner Elizabeth Ryan and Magistrate Imad Abdul-Karim have been appointed as Judges of the District Court of NSW. A formal ceremony to honour this occasion will be held in the John Maddison Tower on Level 21 at 9:00am on Monday 17 March 2025. An invitation is extended to be present and to attend morning tea following the ceremony in the function room of the District Court on Level 21. Please confirm your attendance at lisa.freeman@courts.nsw.gov.au by 10:00am Thursday 13 March 2025. The ceremony will be live-streamed here.
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Volunteer lawyers needed for National Law Week 2025
Willoughby City Library is hosting talks on retirement villages during National Law Week (May 16-22, 2025) in English, Mandarin, and Cantonese. The library seeks local volunteer lawyers to deliver these sessions at Chatswood Library. If you’re interested in volunteering, please contact Vivien Chung, Community Connection and Learning Specialist at Willoughby City Council, at Vivien.Chung@Willoughby.nsw.gov.au or 61 2 9777 7917.
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Early career lawyers: Mandatory rule 6.1 – online
Thursday 13 March 2025
REGISTER HERE
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Asset tracing for lawyers – online
Monday 17 March 2025
REGISTER HERE
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Staying Well in the Law: Imposter syndrome in the legal profession
Wednesday 26 March 2025
REGISTER HERE
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Law Society of NSW members can simplify international payments with TorFX's expert solutions
Members get access to preferential exchange rates and no-fee transfers for both personal and business currency exchanges. Plus, members will be rewarded with a $100 GiftPay gift card for their first eligible personal FX transfer and a $200 GiftPay gift card for their first eligible business FX transfer. T&Cs apply. Find out more here.
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March Service Directory
The LSJ Online Service Directory for March remains available. Here you will find advertisements for agency and referrals, practices for sale and purchase and much more, plus all missing wills notices. Please note: As of 1 January 2025 classified advertising in Service Directory is via prepay only. Please reach out to advertising@lawsociety.com.au with any questions. Read more.
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District Court Criminal Practice Note 26 - Walama List Sentencing Procedure
District Court Criminal Practice Note 26, ‘Walama List Sentencing Procedure’, commenced at the Sydney District Court on 3 March 2025. The Practice Note applies to matters committed for sentence or where a plea of guilty was entered upon arraignment after 1 December 2021.
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Jury Amendment Act 2024 No 24
The Jury Amendment Act 2024 commences today, 10 March 2025, with the exception of section 53D. The Act will make several amendments to the Jury Act 1977 to improve the efficiency of jury empanelment, provide enhanced support for jurors to perform their role, and reduce the expenditure of resources on trials that are ultimately aborted or result in hung juries, where possible.
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COMPULSORY ACQUISITIONS
Court of Appeal re-characterises ‘public purpose’ under Just Terms Act
By Alex Beale
and Tom White >
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TECHNOLOGY
Algorithmic price personalisation: everything you need to know
By Dr Son Tan Nguyen >
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