Sydney | Are you talking to me? How to be heard and how to set up effective advocacy to arbitration tribunals

The Lighthouse Club Sydney is pleased to invite members and supporters to our November2023 event sponsored by Hall&Wilcox and HKA.

Event Topic: Are you talking to me? How to be heard and how to set up effective advocacy to arbitration tribunals”

Venue: Hall & Wilcox Level 18, 347 Kent Street Sydney

5.30pm for 6:00pm – Registration

6.00pm – 7.00pm – Fireside Chat

7.00pm – 8.00pm – Networking drinks

Free for members and $35.00 for non-members

The Hon James Allsop AC, Atkin Chambers

The Hon James Allsop AC was Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Australia from 2013 to 2023, President of the New South Wales Court of Appeal from 2008 to 2013, and a judge of the Federal Court of Australia from 2001 to 2008. As a barrister from 1981, and as Senior Counsel (in New South Wales) from 1994 and as Queen’s Counsel (in Western Australia) from 1998, James practised in a wide variety of areas in commercial law. His expertise includes company law and business and partnership disputes – taxation, restrictive trade practices (anti-trust), patents and intellectual property with specialties in insurance, intellectual property, maritime law, insolvency – and public and constitutional law, equity, and common law. James was made a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) in 2023 for eminent service to the judiciary and to the law, to organisational and technological reform, to legal education, and to insolvency law. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in 2013. He now acts as an arbitrator, mediator, early neutral evaluator, chair of inquiries and legal expert.

Stuart Catchpole KC, Atkin Chambers

Stuart Catchpole KC specialises in substantial and complex litigation, arbitration and mediation.  His practice is principally concentrated in the construction, engineering, mining, energy and infrastructure sectors, together with related areas such as shipbuilding, insurance / reinsurance and commercial disputes. He has been consistently identified in the legal directories as a leader in all of his specialisms, being described as “one of the finest barristers of his generation”.  Stuart is a Fellow of the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration and an Adjunct Professor of Law at Notre Dame University, Sydney, Australia.

Atkin Chambers is a leading set of commercial barristers with an international reputation for providing advocacy and specialist legal advice on commercial disputes particularly relating to construction and engineering, technology, energy and infrastructure projects. Chambers also houses a number of prominent arbitrators and mediators. It is described as “the place to go for substantial international disputes” as well as “the premier construction set.” www.atkinchambers.com