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Recorded Webinar: Obtaining Information and Using It – What are the Ethical Limits? (Ethics)

The practitioner’s role does involve information gathering, particularly with evidence, but what are the practical ethical limits to this process? Once obtained, the way you use information may also present an ethical risk. This session looks at the ethics of information gatherin

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The practitioner’s role does involve information gathering, particularly with evidence, but what are the practical ethical limits to this process? Once obtained, the way you use information may also present an ethical risk. This session looks at the ethics of information gathering and use:

  • The duty of care to your client and ethical information gathering and use
  • Obtaining information legally and ethically – is this the same thing?
  • Privacy and confidentiality issues when obtaining information
  • Duty to client and duty to the court in information gathering
  • Using confidential information – is this ever justified?
  • Misuse of information – disclosure of personal information and other breaches
  • Obligation to report versus the duty of confidentiality
  • Inadvertent disclosure – a look at Expense Reduction Analysts Group Pty Ltd v Armstrong Marketing Pty Ltd [2013] HCA 46
  • Case studies in ethical information gathering and use

Presented By

Elisabeth Peden
Barrister, Third Floor Wentworth Chambers Sydney, NSW

Elisabeth was appointed senior counsel in 2019. She has a general commercial practice at the bar, regularly appearing in the Federal and Supreme Courts around Australia. She also appears in the High Court and various tribunals. Her practice areas for litigation, arbitration and advice include appellate, commercial/contract, corporate and banking, construction, equity, property including strata, succession/family provision, medical/professional negligence.

She is a nationally accredited mediator and has been an expert witness on Australian and New South Wales contract law in Singapore and New Zealand litigation. 

She is the editor of the New South Wales Law Reports, the Commercial Law Quarterly and on the editorial board of the Journal of Contract Law. She has been elected as a fellow of the Australian Academy of Law (http://www.academyoflaw.org.au/)

She is a Professor from the University of Sydney. She provides legal training to law firms and national corporations and is a regular invited speaker at national and international conferences on aspects of contract, commercial, evidence and procedure, and medical negligence law.

Elisabeth was the associate to Justice Lockhart in the Federal Court and Justice McHugh in the High Court of Australia. She was a Tapp Scholar and Ivan Roberts Scholar at Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge, where she completed her PhD on implied terms in contract law.

Who Should Attend?

This webinar is suitable for lawyers - Australia wide and it has been designed to deliver the the Ethics compulsory subject unit for th

CPD Information

unit for the CPD year ending 31st March 2019.

Enquiries/Assistance

If you need assistance or have an enquiry, please do not hesitate to contact our Webinar Coordinator, Lisa Tran on (03) 8601 7709 or email: [email protected]

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