Legal Profession Uniform Continuing Professional Development (Barristers) Amendment (CPD Activity) Rule 2019 (NSW)

New South Wales

Legal Profession Uniform Continuing

Professional Development (Barristers)

Amendment (CPD Activity) Rule 2019

under the

Legal Profession Uniform Law

The Legal Services Council has made the following Rule under the Legal Profession Uniform

Law.

MEGAN PITT
Chief Executive Officer, Legal Services Council
Legal Profession Uniform Continuing Professional Development (Barristers) Amendment (CPD Activity) Rule

2019 [NSW]

Legal Profession Uniform Continuing Professional Development

(Barristers) Amendment (CPD Activity) Rule 2019

under the

Legal Profession Uniform Law

1      Name of Rule

This Rule is the Legal Profession Uniform Continuing Professional Development

(Barristers) Amendment (CPD Activity) Rule 2019.

2      Commencement

This Rule commences on the day on which it is published on the NSW legislation website.

3      Authorising provision

This Rule is made by the Legal Services Council under Part 9.2 of the Legal

Profession Uniform Law.

Legal Profession Uniform Continuing Professional Development (Barristers) Amendment (CPD Activity) Rule
2019 [NSW]
Schedule 1 Amendment of Legal Profession Uniform Continuing Professional Development (Barristers)

Rules 2015

Schedule 1 Amendment of Legal Profession Uniform
Continuing Professional Development
(Barristers) Rules 2015

[1]      Rule 5 Definitions

Omit the definition of CPD activity. Insert instead—

CPD activity means an activity which meets the requirements of rules 6 and
6A.

[2]      Rule 6 CPD content

Omit rule 6(1)(c). Insert instead—

(c) relevant to the barrister’s professional development needs in relation to the barrister’s practice of the law.

[3]      Rule 6A

Insert after rule 6—

6A CPD format

A CPD activity may consist of—

(a)

a seminar, workshop, lecture, conference, discussion group, multimedia or web-based program, private study of audio/visual material or any other educational activity, or

(b)

the research, preparation or editing by a barrister of—

(i)	an article published in a legal publication (including a loose-leaf service), or
(ii)	a legal article published in a non-legal publication, or

(iii)	a book related to the law, or
(iv)	a law report, or

(c)

the preparation and/or presentation by a barrister of written or oral material to be used in a CPD activity or in other forms of education provided to barristers and/or to other professionals and/or to other persons including those undertaking practical or supervised legal training, or

(d)

membership of a committee, working group, taskforce or practice section of a professional association or designated local regulatory authority or the Australian Bar Association or the Law Council of Australia or of other committees, provided that the barrister regularly attends its meetings, or

(e)

postgraduate studies relevant to the practice of law, or

(f)

the writing or marking of examinations conducted by a professional association or designated local regulatory authority for the purposes of admission of persons to the practice of a barrister, or

(g)

the preparation and/or presentation by a barrister of written or oral material to be used in a course conducted by a professional association or designated local regulatory authority for persons intending to commence the practice of a barrister, or

(h)

any other activity approved by the designated local regulatory authority.