Friday, 21 March 2025
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD hour
* This interactive online recording includes questions and quizzes requiring critical thinking about the topics, so you have no annual limits to the number of points/hours you can claim with this format of learning. Please verify with your CPD rules
Chair
Brintyn Smith, Barrister
Learning Objectives:
- Learn best practices for preparing and managing documentary and pre-hearing evidence in family law proceedings
- Understand discovery rules, interrogatories, and affidavit requirements to support effective case strategy
Documentary and Pre-hearing Evidence
- The value of early evidence
- Collation of discovery
- Documentary discovery: focused requests and lists by affidavit
- Interrogatories: evidence on crucial issues and case distillation
- Applicable Rules, useful cases, and helpful practices
Presented by Carmel Walsh, Barrister, Bankside Chambers
Presenters
Carmel Walsh, Barrister, Bankside ChambersCarmel has over 30 years’ experience as a litigator in New Zealand, Hong Kong, and England. She was admitted as a barrister and solicitor in New Zealand; and a solicitor and solicitor advocate (Higher Courts Civil) in England. She holds both a New Zealand and English practising certificate. As a London based partner of an international law firm she managed high value multinational complex litigation particularly involving multinational accountancy practices. She was a contributing author to Informa’s Reinsurance Practice and the Law, and a former secretary and editor of the Negligence and Damages committee of the International Bar Association. Carmel now specialises in property litigation, equity and trusts, estates litigation and relationship property where trusts or complex issues arise. Carmel has served on the boards of many arts organisations and trusts, and is the Chair of the board of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.
Brintyn Smith, Barrister
Brintyn (Tūhoe) is a specialist family law barrister based in Warkworth and Auckland. He deals predominantly with complex care of children, family violence, relocation, and care and protection matters. He also undertakes relationship property work. Brintyn accepts Family Court appointments to act as Lawyer for Child, and is a family legal aid provider and is also a contract Instructor at the Institute of Professional Legal Studies (IPLS). Brintyn is passionate about and actively advocates for the safety and well-being of practitioners. He also has an interest in matters of practice and procedure, evidence, alternative dispute resolution (including mediation and collaborative law), and elder law.
