STEP NSW Evening Seminar | Wednesday 18 November 2026

Registration for this seminar will open soon.

STEP NSW Branch invites you to a seminar with The Honourable Justice François Kunc, Supreme Court of New South Wales.

Topic: Mutual wills and indeterminate equities

The paper will discuss the nature of Justice Dixon’s “floating obligation” in Birmingham v Renfrew and how it might interact with other equitable interests.

Event Details

Date: Wednesday 18 November 2026

Time: 17:30 - 18:30 AEDT

End of Year Celebration: 18:30 - 19:30 AEDT

Venue: Banco Court, Supreme Court of NSW, 184 Phillip Street, Sydney OR online via Teams webinar

Cost: STEP Members $75 | Non-Members $120

ABOUT THE PRESENTER | The Honourable Justice François Kunc

The Honourable Justice François Kunc is a judicial member of STEP. He was appointed to the Supreme Court of New South Wales in April 2013 and sits in the Equity Division. After graduating with degrees in Arts and Law from the University of Sydney he practised as a solicitor with Allen Allen and Hemsley from 1986. He was called to the Bar in 1992 and was appointed Senior Counsel in 2007. He holds an LLM from Duke University’s Bolch Judicial Institute.

Justice Kunc is the General Editor of the Australian Law Journal and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Equity. He is the Chair of the Legal Services Council Admissions Committee and the Law Admissions Consultative Committee, in which capacities he is currently chairing the national review of Practical Legal Training. His Honour was a member of the expert panel which prepared the Recommended National Standards for Working with Interpreters in Courts and Tribunals. Earlier this year his Honour was elected to membership of the American Law Institute.

END OF YEAR CELEBRATION

Join us after the seminar to celebrate the end of the year with the STEP NSW network. In-person delegates are warmly invited to the portrait gallery for an hour of canapés and drinks.

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INFORMATION

For more information, please contact stepnswaustralia@step.org.

Please ensure the email address you register with is correct, as all event communications will be sent to this address. The link to join the live-stream will be sent to each ticket holder via email 2 hours before this event through the Humanitix system.

This seminar will be recorded, and the recording will be sent to registered attendees within 7 days.