Day 1 Monday 14th October 2024 - All New Members – State Room 3
9.00am – General Introduction/Acknowledgement of Country - Daniel Slater, General
9.10am
Counsel
9.10am – Jurisdiction and powers – Daniel Slater, General Counsel
9.30am
9.30am – Livestreaming – ceremonial sitting of the new ART
10.30am
10.30am - Morning Tea
10.45am
10.45am - Working With Interpreters
12.45pm
Professor Ludmila Stern followed by Member panel discussion and Q&A
Panel: Senior Members Sean Baker (Chair), Nicole Burns and Alison Murphy,
and Member Sydelle Muling
12.45pm - Legal/Visa Framework – Senior Member Nicole Burns
1.15pm
1.15pm – Lunch
2.00pm
2.00pm – Decision Writing
3.30pm
Narelle Bell
3.30pm -
Refreshment break
3.45pm
3.45pm – Judicial Review
5.15pm
Emily Nance, Deputy Chief Solicitor, AGS
Chair/Q&A: Deputy President Shahyar Roushan
Day 4 Thursday 17th October 2024 – Protection – Element Room
8.45am-
Welcome and Overview of Program
DPs Shahyar Roushan, Simone
9.00am
Burford and Kate Mil ar
9.00am-
Bias and Decisions
DP Shahyar Roushan
9,30am
9.30am-
Review of protection law
DPs Shahyar Roushan, Simone
11.00am
Burford, Kate Mil ar and SM Sean
(including
Baker
break)
11.00am-
Case preparation
SMs Sean Baker, Bridget Cullen,
12.15pm
and Linda Symons
12.15pm-
Hearings – approach and structure
SMs Sean Baker, Nikki Burns,
1.00pm
Gabby Cullen and DP Shahyar
Roushan
1.00pm-
Lunch
2.00pm
2.00pm-
Hearings – approach and structure
SMs Sean Baker, Nikki Burns,
3.00pm
(cont)
Gabby Cullen and DP Shahyar
Roushan
3.00pm-
Scenarios
3.15pm
3.15pm-
Refreshment break
3.30pm
3.30pm-
Credibility – testing, assessing, deciding DP Shahyar Roushan, SMs
5.00pm
Alison Murphy and Sean Baker
Day 5 Friday 18th October 2024 – Protection – State Room 3
8.45am-
What to do when a hearing goes wrong – DP Kate Millar, SMs Alison
10.15am Member panel
Mercer, Jane Marquard, Linda
Symons and Sean Baker
10.15am- Refreshment break
10.30am
10.30am- Procedural issues (359A, dismissals and DP Kate Mil ar, Members Andrew
11.30am direction)
Verduci and Siran Nyabally
11.30am- Decision writing
SMs Sean Baker, Jane Marquard
1.00pm
and DP Shahyar Roushan
1.00pm-
Lunch
1.45pm
1.45pm-
Decision writing (cont)
SMs Sean Baker, Jane Marquard
2.15pm
and DP Shahyar Roushan
2.15pm-
Self-reflection and wellbeing
SM Sean Baker
3.15pm
3.15pm-
Organising listings and managing
DPs Simone Burford, Shahyar
4.00pm
workflow
Roushan, SMs Jane Marquard
General Q&A
and Sean Baker
Day 4 Thursday 17th October 2024 - Introduction of Jurisdictional Areas -
Park Room
9:00am-
Introduction to Jurisdiction Areas
Deputy Presidents Kruna
11:00am
• General – Child Support and
Dordevic and Gina Lazanas
Information and Other
• Veterans and workers compensation
• Taxation and Business
• NDIS
• Social Security
• Protection
• Migration
11:00am- Refreshment break
11:20am
11:20am- Hearing management, including challenging Deputy Presidents Kruna
1:00pm
behaviours
Dordevic and Gina Lazanas
1.00pm-
Lunch
2.00pm
2:00pm-
Interlocutory matters and procedural issues Senior Member Robert Olding
3:15pm
• Private hearings/confidentiality
• Extension of time
• Jurisdiction/deemed decisions
• Reinstatement requests
• Conduct by representatives
3.15pm-
Refreshment break
3.30pm
3:30pm-
Hearing preparation file management and
Deputy Presidents Kruna
5:00pm
file preparation.
Dordevic and Gina Lazanas
Day 5 Friday 18th October 2024 – NDIS Jurisdiction – Park Room
9:00am
NDIS overview
SM Phil ip French
10:30am Refreshment break
10:45am Access applications
SM Phil ip French
12:00pm Statement of participant supports
SM Phil ip French
1.00pm
Lunch
1:45pm
Statement of participant supports cont
SM Phil ip French
2:45pm
Refreshment break
3:00pm
Specialist disability accommodation
SM Phil ip French
4.00pm
Training Concludes
Day 5 Friday 18th October 2024 – Social Security - Meeting Room 8
9:00am
Social security overview
Ms Siobhan Jordan, Senior
Lawyer
10:30am Refreshment break
10:45am Social security debts
SM Tamara Hamilton-Noy
1.00pm
Lunch
1:45pm
Overview of family tax benefit
M Robyn Anderson
2:45pm
Refreshment break
3:00pm
Social Security (Administration) Act 1991
SM Tamara Hamilton-Noy
4.00pm
Training Concludes
Day 5 Friday 18th October 2024 - Taxation and Business – Albert Room
Facilitators: Deputy President Gina Lazanas & Senior Member Robert
Olding
9.00am Preliminaries and Introductions
• Outline of training
• Member introductions
9.30am Tax Cases
• Legislative framework –
objections/reviews
• Case types – default
assessments, GAAR, penalties
• Burden of proof:
- requirement to prove income
- unless issues confined by Com’r
- not balance of probabilities
- opinion/satisfaction provisions
- principles from cases
• Penalties, GIC, SIC, remission
• Private rulings
• FCA/ART
10.30am Morning Tea
10.45am Tax Cases (continued)
• As above
11.30am Regulation & Discipline Cases
• Case types – CASA, ASIC, NDIS
Commissioner, TPB
• Relevant/irrelevant/mandatory
considerations
12.30pm Alternative Dispute Resolution
• Whether/when
• Member experiences
1.00pm Lunch – General Discussion
1.30pm Case Management
• Expectations
• Consistent messaging
2.00pm Conducting Hearings
• Self/poorly represented
• Respondent’s duty to assist
• Objections to evidence
• Objections to questions
2.30pm Miscellaneous
• Stays
• Extending grounds
• Decisions
• Decision writing
• Private hearings/confidentiality
• Conduct by representatives
• Parallel proceedings eg criminal
• Pro bono scheme
• Other
3.30pm Recap and Looking Forward
• Regular training/meetings
• Roundtable discussion
4.00pm Training Concludes
