Learn from the best. Keen to sharpen your approach to Interlocutory Applications? Learn when—and when not—to commence applications by assessing the risks and opportunities and how to figure out if the application is essential or potentially could harm your case. Get hands on guidance for drafting affidavits in support of your application, that can stand up to scrutiny and meet the essentials of rules of evidence. Master the skills for effective advocacy, understanding how to argue persuasively in these proceedings and why they differ from full trials. Gain all the skills you require to make each winning application.
Description
Attend and earn 3 CPD hours
2.00pm to 3.00pm How to Conduct Them: Whether, When and Why to Make an Interlocutory Application
- Risks and opportunities presented by interlocutory applications
- How to figure out if applications are essential, useful or potentially harmful to your case
- Knowing what you are trying to get out of the application
Presented by Tiho Mijatov, Barrister, Stout Street Chambers
4.15pm to 5.15pm Advocacy: How to Argue Interlocutory Applications and How they Differ from a Trial
Presented by Nick Laing, Partner, Duncan Cotterill
Learning Objectives:
- Learn when, why and the risks/opportunities of bringing interlocutory applications
- Know how to draft effective affidavits in support of your applications
- Gain best advocacy skills to assist the success of your application
Chair:
Helen Smith, Barrister, Canterbury Chambers
3.00pm to 4.00pm Drafting Effective Affidavits in Support of Interlocutory Applications
- Importance of affidavits in determining outcomes of interlocutory applications
- Process for identifying and briefing deponents
- Guidelines for selecting and producing relevant exhibits
- Drafting tips to meet evidential requirements for specific applications
- Common pitfalls when drafting affidavits
Presented by Kishen Kommu, Barrister, FortyEight Shortland Chambers
4.00pm to 4.15pm Break
Presenters
Tiho Mijatov, Barrister, Stout Street Chambers
Tiho is a barrister sole and practises from Stout Street Chambers, Wellington. He regularly conducts trials and appeals on a range of commercial and general civil matters including company law, property law, contract disputes, negligence and other areas of commercial life. He appears at all levels of the Courts. Tiho is ranked by the Legal 500 Asia-Pacific New Zealand Bar directory in top tier 1 as a leading barrister-sole for commercial disputes. Tiho has acted for plaintiffs and defendants who have either sought to bring or oppose a range of interlocutory matters. He has run cases at first instance and on appeal relating to interlocutory applications. Examples from which Tiho will draw include interlocutory matters relating to: adequacy of pleadings, discovery against parties or non-parties, interrogatories, pre-trial admissibility rulings, summary judgment and strike-out, and interim injunctions and other emergency relief.
Nick Laing, Partner, Duncan Cotterill
Nick is a litigation lawyer, practising in civil and commercial litigation. Nick is also a medico-legal expert. Nick acts for health service providers and health practitioners alike in health practitioner discipline and negligence claims, including before the Coroner, Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal, Health and Disability Commissioner, Privacy Commissioner and Ombudsmen. Nick also regularly advises on medico-legal aspects including duty of care, patient consent, privacy and treatment issues, and applied aspects of intensivist treatment. Nick advises health service providers with complex inquiries into patient care and treatment and has presented nationally on end-of-life care matters, including in relation to advance care planning and the End of Life Choice Act.
Kishen Kommu, Barrister, FortyEight Shortland Chambers
Helen Smith, Barrister, Canterbury Chambers
