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The Board of SOUL is very excited to announce that SOUL 2025 will be held on 16 and 17 October 2025.
 
The SOUL Board and Local Organising Committee are currently working on an exciting, educational program which will include plenty of opportunities for you to connect and network with your fellow SOUL members and other interested legal participants in the university sector.  
 
Details regarding registration will be posted to the website once we finalise further conference details. 
 
The SOUL Board and 2025 Conference Local Organising Committee
 

Location: The University Club of Western Australia, The University of Western Australia, Hackett Entrance #1, Hackett Drive, Crawley WA  6009
 
Contact us: Further information regarding the SOUL Conference 2025 will be coming soon.  In the meantime, we recommend you follow SOUL on LinkedIn.

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Mark Flaherty and Grace Brunton-Makeham from the Legal team at the University of Melbourne invite SOUL members to join a discussion about the University of Melbourne’s experience and share some key learnings.

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The session will focus on:

• The FWO’s investigative and enforcement approach

• Key learnings from UoM’s wage remediation program

• Negotiating enforcement action with the FWO, including novel terms secured by UoM in its EU

• Managing the risks of an EU once signed

 

Mark and Grace encourage audience participation and are more than happy to take questions throughout the discussion. 
   

When: Wednesday, 16 April 2025 from 12:00pm – 1:00pm AEST

Chair: Daniel Bell, General Counsel, University of Newcastle

 

Presenters:

• Mark Flaherty, Director – Legal Services, University of Melbourne

• Grace Brunton-Makeham, Senior Lawyer, University of Melbourne

Angus & Carr and SOUL are pleased to invite SOUL members to a webinar focused on the newly minted office of the National Student Ombudsman.

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What powers and responsibilities will it have? What should universities expect? What can legal teams do to help their internal clients to respond to and deal effectively with the Ombudsman?    

Thursday, 10 April 2025 - 60 mins via Microsoft Teams

  WA: 10:30 AM

  SA, NT: 12:00 PM

  NSW, VIC, ACT, TAS, QLD: 12:30 PM 

Presenter: Lachlan Carr, Managing Principal, Angus & Carr    

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Moderator: Ed Fortunatow, Director, SOUL, Legal Counsel, Adelaide University

Registration    Essential – Click here to view the Members' Only post and register

Questions?    Lachlan Carr lcarr@angusandcarr.com

Edward Fortunatow edward.fortunatow@adelaide.edu.au

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