Thursday, 28 August 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
Learning Objectives:
- Understand how to strategically prepare and manage evidence, witness materials, and documentary support ahead of trial
- Navigate key pre-trial procedures including admissibility issues, pre-trial conferences, common bundles, and submission preparation
Effective Case Preparation and Management: Preparation of Evidence and Pre-Trial Procedures
- Examining your case: what you need to / want to establish and how you will do that
- Briefs of evidence: fact, expert, will-say statements from subpoenaed witnesses
- Documentary evidence
- Admissibility challenges / responses
- Agreeing order of witnesses and any time limitations on presentation of evidence / cross examination
- Use of litigation support providers re on-line documents
- Pre-trial conference(s)
- Common b undle
- Amending pleadings to conform with evidence
- Preparation of opening submissions
Presented by Chris Patterson, Barrister, Chris Patterson Barrister
*Original Content was created in October 2024
Chair
Bill Gambrill, Special Counsel, Martelli McKegg Lawyers
Presenters
Bill Gambrill, Special Counsel, Martelli McKegg LawyersBill is a commercial litigation lawyer at Martelli McKegg, solicitors in Auckland. Admitted in 1992, Bill worked in New Zealand and the United Kingdom, before moving to Dubai in 2005. Bill joined Martelli McKegg from Dubai at the beginning of 2020. His New Zealand career has been in the fields of insolvency proceedings, directors’ duties claim, trust litigation, conflict of laws and enforcement of foreign judgments. In Dubai, Bill acted in proceedings before the English-language, common law courts established in Dubai's International Financial Centre, and also in a number of arbitrations. Bill also worked on cross-border disputes. Bill is a member of the Restructuring Insolvency and Turnaround Association of New Zealand, and a member (associate status) of the Arbitrators' and Mediators' Institute of New Zealand (AMINZ).
Chris Patterson, Barrister, Chris Patterson Barrister
Chris joined the independent bars of New Zealand in 2001 and New South Wales in 2003, where he practiced concurrently for a decade. Chris’ specialist areas are dispute resolution and litigation. He is also the host of the Law Down Under podcast. Chris has an LLM from the University of Melbourne. He is a FIBA Legal Commissioner and a FIBA disciplinary panel member. Chris has been teaching the topics of factual analysis and trial preparation since 2015 to new and experienced lawyers.
