Friday, 27 February 2026
Chair
Helen Tyree, Director, McWilliam Tyree
Drafting Effective Pleadings and Submissions
- Craft your case from start to finish
- Learn how PRA drafting differs from other Family Court pleadings
- Get tips for focusing and structuring your written material so the Judge can actually give you what you want at the end of the case
Presented by Jodi Ryan, Barrister, Kumutoto Chambers
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the key differences between PRA drafting and other Family Court pleadings
- Develop practical strategies for preparing clear, focused and persuasive pleadings and written submissions in family law matters
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
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.
Jodi Ryan, Barrister, Kumutoto Chambers
Jodi has been in practice since 2005 as a specialist family lawyer, commencing practice in Porirua, continuing in Tāmaki Makaurau, then settling in Te Whanganui a Tara. She set up her own practice as a barrister sole in 2015 and established Kumutoto Chambers with Shelley Stevenson and Frances Williams in 2020. Jodi’s main areas of practice are relationship property and care of children work, but she enjoys the wide variety of all aspects of Family Law. She is a former regional representative of the Family Law Section and a former member of the Executive Committee of that Section. Jodi receives appointments as lawyer for the child and particularly enjoys the privilege of advocating for tamariki Māori. Ahakoa te makaro o tōna whakapapa, he kakano ia i ruia mai i Rangiatea.
