Please join us for the Adelaide’s Law School’s next CPD Seminar ‘Justice and Efficiency: The Challenges of Complex Litigation’.

Complex commercial litigation presents courts with the challenge of doing justice between the parties in a reasonably efficient way while using public resources responsibly. Judges have responded to this challenge by developing innovative procedural techniques that aim to reconcile all the competing objectives.  This seminar draws on interviews with judges in five Australian jurisdictions to explain both the challenge posed by complex commercial litigation, and the techniques judges use to meet these challenges.

When: Tuesday, 19 May 2015.

Time: 7.15am for 7.30am start. A light breakfast will be provided.

Where: Level 5, Ligertwood Building, Adelaide Law School.

Presenter: Dr Anna Olijnyk (Adelaide law School), Commentator: Peter Leech (Special Counsel, Cowell Clarke).

Cost: Standard ticket $50, Adelaide Law School students $25 and Adelaide GDLP Students FREE

RSVP: Please register your attendance here by Monday 18 May 2015.

Speaker Biographies

Dr Anna Olijnyk graduated from the Adelaide Law School in 2008, and spent 18 months as an Associate in the Supreme Court of South Australia.  She joined the Law School as a lecturer in 2014, and recently completed her PhD thesis on the role of the court in mega-litigation.

Peter Leech is Special Counsel in Cowell Clarke’s Dispute Resolution and Insolvency and Turnaround practice areas. He has over ten years’ experience as an instructing solicitor in Federal Court, Supreme Court and District Court trials taking in claims involving Competition Law, Misleading and Deceptive Conduct, the Franchising Code of Conduct, Breach of Fiduciary Duty, Negligence, Minority Shareholder Oppression and Unfair Preference claims.