EVENT: 2016 Victorian Annual Dinner & AGM

Description

Join us for the 2016 Victorian Annual Dinner and Annual General Meeting.

The dinner is the highlight of the AILA Victoria social calendar and is a wonderful opportunity to hear Simon Wilson QC speak whilst enjoying the company of other insurance and insurance law colleagues and friends coupled with a three course meal and drinks.  The AILA VIC AGM forms part of the evenings proceedings.

Dever's List returns as the proud sponsor for 2016.

Time

7:00pm for a 7:30pm seating

Dress Code

Lounge suit

Cost

Members $170

Non-Members $185

Table of Ten $1600*

*please use the 'Student' ticket to purchase a table of ten online. Enter the primary attendee for booking purposes and then email vic@aila.com.au with a full list of attendees.

Registration Form

If preferred, you can download a copy of the event flyer and registration form by CLICKING HERE

Simon Wilson QC

Simon Wilson QC has been a member of the Victorian Bar since 1976 and was appointed as the youngest Silk in 1992 at the age of 41.

Mr Wilson’s areas of speciality include commercial work involving major commercial property disputes, banking and finance cases; defamation work and common law matters having a personal injury content.

In his defamation practice, Simon has represented numerous identities from the world of Sport, Politics and Entertainment and he holds the record plaintiff’s verdict in Victoria for a contested defamation trial before a Judge and/or Judge and Jury.

In 2012 Simon was a guest of the Supreme Court of Singapore and was honoured to be invited to address the entire Supreme Court panel of judges.

In 1984 the Victorian Bar celebrated its centenary and Simon was appointed as the Director, Co-writer and Actor in the Centenary Bar Review “The Life and Times of Judge John Doe”.  The show was a riotous success playing to about 3000 lawyers, but today might suffer from the slings and arrows of the politically correct. 

During his legal studies at Monash University, Simon had a sabbatical year off in Oxford where he taught school and experienced a “road to Damascus revelation” when he saw the movie “Witness for the prosecution” starring Charles Laughton which determined him upon his course as a barrister.  He has never practised as a solicitor.  Simon has also appeared on national radio, in debates and is a past President of the Melbourne University Graduate Student Theatre Group.

Last year he was due to give this presentation but was literally the day before rushed from the Court of Appeal to hospital to have his appendix removed.