Friday, 27 February 2026
Chair
Helen Tyree, Director, McWilliam Tyree
Learning Objectives:
- Understand how to effectively prepare clients and written materials for judicial settlement conferences in family law matters
- Develop practical strategies for managing negotiation dynamics, settlement risk and expert involvement during settlement conferences
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
A Judicial Settlement Conferences: Preparing, Drafting, Advising on Risk and Settlement Options
- What is the best way to represent your client at a judicial settlement conference including
- How to prepare them for the process
- How to craft a memorandum for a judicial settlement conference
- How to manage your client and the opposing party at a judicial settlement conference
- How to get the best out of any expert who may attend the conference or is involved with your matter as well as judge at the settlement conference
Presented by Louise Reed, Barrister, Southern Cross Chambers
Presenters
Helen Tyree, Director, McWilliam TyreeHelen is a Director of McWilliam Tyree Lawyers, having been an Associate and then Senior Associate at McWilliam Rennie (predecessor of McWilliam Tyree) since 2014. Helen has practiced all areas of family law since 2003. As well as acting for clients in all areas of family law, Helen has undertaken regular appointments as lawyer for child and as lawyer for subject persons under the Protection of Personal and Property Rights Act since 2008. Helen is also a contributing author for the legal publication “Brookers Family Law on Family Property”, writing about relationship property agreements (separation agreements, contracting-out agreements, and setting aside those agreements). She also contributed significantly to McWilliam Rennie’s submissions to the Law Commission in relation to their review of relationship property and then succession law. She has presented seminars for Legalwise on a range of relationship property matters, relationship property law developments and on the Protection of Personal and Property Rights Act.
Louise Reed, Barrister, Southern Cross Chambers
Louise is a barrister at Southern Cross Chambers. She has practised in family law, employment law, insurance law and general civil litigation since her admission to the bar in 2004. Since 2009 Louise has practised exclusively in the area of family law and has particular interests in children's proceedings, relationship property, trust disputes and proceedings under the Protection and Personal Property Rights Act 1988. She appears regularly in the Family Court and has been involved in appeals to both the High Court and Court of Appeal in respect of relationship property and spousal maintenance matters. Louise is on the lawyer for child list and also lawyer for subject person list. She is also appointed as lawyer to assist the court.
