Ramena Kako

Barrister

Tel:  (02) 9232 7750          Fax:  (02) 8086 6096

Email:   rkako@13wentworthselbornechambers.com.au

Curriculum Vitae

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Admitted to Practice

High Court (2008)
Supreme Court (2001)

Memberships

NSW Bar Association
NSW Bar Association - New Barristers' Committee
NSW Young Lawyers, Civil Litigation and CLE committees
Member of committee of inspection: Karl Suleman Enterprizes Pty Limited (in liquidation) (2001 to date)

Publications

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.

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

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

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

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

"Maintenance, Champerty amp; Barratry - A New Era for Litigation Funding in Australia ".

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

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

Authored the chapter on "Deceased Estates " in the NSW Young Lawyers Handbook titled "A Practitioner's Guide to Civil Litigation " (1st and 2nd editions).

Career Highlights / Cases

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) - judgment reserved

Go Electrical Pty Ltd v McGarvey & Ors (2009) District Court of NSW (insolvent trading)

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

Jin v Yang [2008] NSWSC 754 (trusts)