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Sydney NSW 2000
TEL: (02) 9232 7750


Ramena Kako

Barrister

Tel:  (02) 9232 7750          Fax:  (02) 9232 4071

Email:   rkako@13wentworthselbornechambers.com.au

Admitted to the Bar

5th May 2008


Previous Occupations

Solicitor (2002-2008)
Tipstaff to Palmer J (2002)
Lecturer and post graduate co-ordinator, School of Law, University of Western Sydney


Legal Education

Bachelor of Laws (Hons), UWS
Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice


Areas of Practice

Commercial
Equity
Property
Wills and Probate


Curriculum Vitae

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Admitted to Practice

High Court (2008)
Supreme Court (2002)


Memberships

NSW Bar Association
NSW Bar Association - New Barristers' Committee (2009-2010)
Society of Trust & Estate Practitioners


Publications

Speaker - "Common Mistakes Made by Executors", Estate & Business Succession Planning CPD, The Tax Institute, Sydney, 4 May 2011.

Speaker - "Common Mistakes Made by Executors", CST Corporate Solutions, Daydream Island, QLD, 3 June 2011.

Speaker - "Trends in Estate Litigation" - CLE event for Thompson Reuters 18 November 2010 and 18 March 2011.

Speaker - "The New Succession Laws & their Impact on Estate Planning" - CLE for CPDS 17 November 2010; Newcastle: 24 March 2011.

Speaker - "Will Drafting For Lawyers" - CLE event for NSW State Legal Conference held on 28 March 2011 and upcoming in August 2011.

Speaker - "Executors Stepping out of Line", CLE UNSW 9 March 2011.

Speaker - "Estate Planning & The Distressed Defacto Relationship", 8th Annual Wills & Estates Conference, Lexis Nexis March 2010.

Speaker - "Informal & Statutory Wills Under the Succession Act", Succession - The Model Law Changes, TEN Conferences, March 2010.

Author - "When I die, all this will be yours (unless I change my mind)" - pg. 57, Law Society Journal, September 2010.

Co-author - "First Statutory Wills Decision under the Succession Act" NSW Law Society Journal (August 2009).

Speaker - Taxation Institute of Australia - "Important Changes to the Law of Wills and Succession in NSW". (2008)

Speaker - "Expert Evidence - Some Important Lessons" - (co-author and presenter).

Chair - "Succession Law - Essential Topics in Practice" CLE, UNSW, March 2010.

Chair - "Equity in the Supreme Court" NSW Young Lawyers CLE.

Chair - "Advanced Wills & Probate 2" NSW Young Lawyers CLE.

Author - "Deceased Estates", NSW Young Lawyers Handbook "A Practitioner's Guide to Civil Litigation" (1st, 2nd & 3rd editions).


Career Highlights / Cases

Noonan v Johnson (NSW Supreme Court, 15 March 2011, Pembroke J.) - testamentary capacity, appeared for the beneficiary (St. Vincents Hospital) (settled at trial)

McQude v Sheather & Ors. (NSW Supreme Court, 2010) succession, injunction restraining solicitor distributing estate assets; opposing application to remove executor) - settled before trial.

Crawley, Re; Application of Crawley [2010] NSWSC 618 (statutory will)

Cemex Australia Pty Ltd v Takeovers Panel & Anor [2009] FCAFC 78 (misrepresentation in the conduct of a takeover)

Fenwick, Re; Application of J.R. Fenwick & Re Charles [2009] NSWSC 530 (succession, first NSW decision on court authorised statutory wills)

Refina Pty Ltd v Binnie [2009] NSWSC 311; and [2009] NSWSC 914 (property - adverse possession) and on appeal in the NSW Court of Appeal (2010) - NSWCA 192

Go Electrical Pty Ltd v McGarvey & Ors (2009) NSWDC

Allen & Ors v Coffman & Ors - Estate of Prager [2008] NSWSC 1067 (succession)

Jin v Yang [2008] NSWSC 754 (trusts)



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