QLS Essentials Workshops - Drafting Statements and Affidavits - Brisbane
Aug 2016 |The 2016 QLS Essentials Workshops cater for the specific needs of junior practitioners by covering a wide range of fundamental legal topics. These workshops are also a valuable opportunity for senior practitioners to refresh or enhance their knowledge in less familiar practice areas.
Upcoming presentations include:
Affidavits: Practical tips for preparation
Brett Heath, Special Counsel
Knowing how to prepare a credible and sensible affidavit is a fundamental skill that every lawyer should have. Join our presenter and brush up on the key things to do when preparing to draft an affidavit.
Affidavits: Perfecting the art of drafting
Nola Pearce, Special Counsel
Affidavit evidence is generally the most common form of evidence tendered in civil proceedings, whether at interlocutory or (at least as to evidence in chief) final hearings. Shaping the evidence into its best form to achieve your client’s objectives is a necessary and powerful skill for any litigator.
Our presenter will adopt a practical and illustrated approach to the following:
- the difference between witness statements and affidavits, and their differing objectives and limitations
- the formal requirements of an affidavit pursuant to the UCPR
- truth and knowledge – identifying the evidence which the witness is capable of giving
- basic rules of evidence to consider when drafting affidavits
- practical tips for assembling the evidence
- language – including things to avoid and some useful alternatives.
Details
Wednesday 3 August 2016 | 1-4.30pm
Law Society House, Brisbane
For more information, and to find out how to register, please click here.
