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Workers' Compensation Practice Update (NSW)

  • 1 hrs
  • 1 CPD Points
  • 18/03/2025 - 18/03/2025
  • Interactive
  • Start from $99.00
  • WN0305_PSK1

Workers' Compensation Practice Update (NSW)

Date & time: 18 March 2025, 9.30am to 10.30am AEDT

Join our one-hour live webinar to stay current with the recent developments in the Workers Compensation Practice, so you can provide accurate advice and safeguard your clients’ interests.

By attending this webinar, you will learn about the recent developments in:

  • The Workers Compensation Practice and Procedure in the Personal Injuries Commission (PIC),
  • IRO funding
  • Workers Compensation legislation and case law

Facilitated by: Con Ktenas, Senior Solicitor and Principal, Con Ktenas Notary

At the end of this live webinar, you will earn 1 CPD point.

Course Outline

Staying current with changes in Workers Compensation Practice is essential in furthering your ability to provide accurate advice and to safeguard your clients’ interests.

Join our one-hour live webinar to ensure that you are across the recent updates in Workers Compensation Practice.

By attending this webinar, you will learn about the recent developments in:

  • Workers Compensation Practice and Procedure in the Personal Injuries Commission (PIC)
  • IRO funding
  • Workers Compensation legislation and case law

The webinar is ideal for lawyers and specialists in workers compensation practice, personal injury lawyers, insurance lawyers, and solicitors in general practice.

This webinar is produced in NSW and features a NSW-based practitioner. This webinar is available to all NSW based practitioners.

Substantive Law - 1 point

If you intend to claim CPD units for this educational activity, please note that CPD activities are not accredited by the Law Society of NSW or any other equivalent local authority, with the exception of Western Australia. If you hold a practising certificate in a state or territory other than Western Australia and this educational activity extends your knowledge and skills in areas that are relevant to your practice needs or professional development, then you should claim one (1) "unit” for each hour of attendance, refreshment breaks not included. The annual requirement is ten (10) CPD units each year from 1 April to 31 March. Some practitioners, such as accredited specialists are required to complete more than ten (10) units each CPD year.

Practitioners holding WA practising certificates are not eligible to earn CPD points for this course.

AEDT: Australian Eastern Daylight Time

Con Ktenas

Con Ktenas

Senior Solicitor and Principal, Con Ktenas Notary

 

Con has over 36 years of experience in litigation in every jurisdiction. He is an Accredited Specialist in Personal Injury, was a long-time member of several Law Society Committees such as the Injury Compensation Committee and Precedents Committee; and is still a member of the Accredited Specialist Advisory Committee and the President of the Law Society’s Commercial Arbitration panel.

Con is a Local Court Arbitrator and a former District Court Arbitrator. He is a past President of the City of Sydney Law Society, and a past member of the Supreme Court Users Group chaired by the Chief Judge at Common Law.

Con is also a Notary Public. He has volunteered in various community legal centres and worked as a part time legal academic for many years at UTS and UNSW. He has and continues to present CPD seminars to the Law Society, College of Law, UTS, ALA and Legalwise.

After 35 years of continuous practice, he commenced his own practice, Con Ktenas, Notary, on 1 January 2023. He practises in the areas of personal injury litigation including workers compensation, work injury damages, Total Permanent Disability (TPD), medical negligence, and common law. He remains passionate in representing the rights of injured workers and in the presentation of CPD seminars. He hears many commercial cases in the Local Court as an arbitrator.

Please be aware that this webinar organised by the College of Law may be recorded for use on our websites, marketing materials and publications. By attending and participating in a College of Law Continuing Professional Development course, you consent to the College of Law photographing or recording and using your image and likeness and/or voice.

PRESENTER

Workers compensation litigation practice and procedure remains complicated and nuanced. In that tradition, the reported cases and changes to procedure by the PIC continue on apace. This presentation seeks to cut through this thicket, provide valuable insights, and practical suggestions in how to litigate these cases.

Con Ktenas, Senior Solicitor and Principal, Con Ktenas Notary
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Con Ktenas

Senior Solicitor and Principal, Con Ktenas Notary

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