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About the Masterclass
Masterclass is an annual event. This will be the 4th and will be the first time it has been held in Brisbane, Queensland. The first was held in Perth in 2013. The second was held in Melbourne in 2014. The third was held in Perth in 2015.
Each Masterclass has been fully subscribed and attracts insurance solicitors, barristers, in-house lawyers and insurance claims officers and brokers, from all over Australia.
In addition to AILA, the past Masterclasses were co-hosted and supported by the University of Western Australia, the University of Southampton and the University of Exeter. Greg Pynt, Perth barrister and the author of ‘Australian Insurance Law: A First Reference’ has been involved in organising each Masterclass. It is intended that the Masterclass be held every second year in Perth and be held each other year in a different Australian city.
The presenters and chairpersons at the past Masterclasses have included The Honourable Justice Ken Martin, The Honourable Justice Emilios Kyrou and Her Honour Judge Felicity Davis, silks, and international and local academics and leading practitioners.
Sir Ninian Stephen
Sir Ninian Stephen, past Justice of the High Court of Australia and past Australian Governor-General, has given his blessing for the use of his name for the Masterclass.
Sir Ninian made a significant contribution to the development of insurance law while a High Court
judge. His judgment in The Distillers Company Biochemicals (Australia) Pty Ltd v Ajax Insurance
Company Ltd [1974] HCA 3; (1974) 130 CLR 1, is still regularly referred to more than 40 years later as the starting point for discussion in relation to the post-contractual duty of utmost good
faith and aggregation clauses.
The Sir Ninian post-contractual duty of utmost good faith connection is particularly apposite as in 2016
it will be the 250th anniversary of the seminal utmost good faith case of Carter v Boehm.
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