Speakers
[Bob Harrison]
Bob Harrison graduated in Surveying from the University of NSW in 1973, and has spent his entire career working as a Registered Surveyor in NSW and Queensland. As the founding Director of Harrison Friedmann & Associates Pty Ltd.
Bob has served on a variety of professional bodies including the Boards of the Association of Consulting Surveyors, Institution of Surveyors NSW and BoSSI (Board of Surveying and Spatial Information NSW, (the regulatory body of surveyors in NSW).
Bob’s commitment to the surveying industry was recognised in him being awarded an Order of Australia for services to the Surveying profession in January 2017. Bob has also found time to be actively involved in the community as a Life Member of Apex, Member of St Vincent de Paul Sydney Central Council and for fun he is a Director of the Vintage and Veterans Chev
Association of Australia.
[Cathy Sherry]
Cathy Sherry is a Professor in Macquarie Law School and Executive Member of Smart Green Cities and the Centre for Environmental Law. She is a leading international expert in land law, with a particular focus on high density development. Her book Strata Title Property Rights: Private governance of multi-owned properties (Routledge, 2017) is the first academic monograph on Australian strata title and cited in case law.
Professor Sherry's research focuses on the complex legal, economic and social relationships created by collectively owned land. She has published in highly ranked, peer-reviewed journals on multiple aspects of strata title, including the application of discrimination law to bodies corporate, the limits of small group autonomy in liberal democracies, and United States condominium and homeowner association law.
Professor Sherry's research has led to significant law reform in New South Wales, including the removal of prohibitions on companion animals in strata schemes. She co-authored the Outcomes Report of the Working Party for the Prevention of Children Falling from Residential Buildings, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, 2011, which resulted in the enactment of the Strata Schemes Management Amendment (Child Safety Devices) Act 2013.
[Jemma Doley]
Jemma Doley is a Registered Psychologist, Coach and Facilitator who specialises in the areas of health coaching, mental health and wellbeing in the workplace and psychological injury. Jemma has completed a Master’s degree in Coaching Psychology as well as a Master of Clinical Psychology. Jemma recently completed a thesis in the area of mental toughness, and has a passion for positive psychology and helping people to thrive and perform at their best.
[Tony Cahill]
Tony Cahill is a member of the Law Society’s Property Law: Environmental, Planning and Development Committees.
He has been a member of the Re‑Draft Committees for the various editions of the Contract for the Sale of Land since 1992, and the Contract for the Sale of Business since 2000.
He was a co-author with Russell Cocks and Paul Gibney of the first NSW edition of 1001 Conveyancing Answers, and the co-author with Gary Newton of Conveyancing Service New South Wales and Annotated Conveyancing & Real Property Legislation New South Wales, both published by LexisNexis Butterworths.
Tony has also been a part-time lecturer at the University of Technology, Sydney, in construction law, property transactions, legal studies, and real estate law, and has lectured in various law subjects at the Sydney and Northern Sydney Institutes of TAFE, the College of Law and for the Law Extension Committee
[Gary Newton]
Practising in the area of Property Law for over 40 years. Gary is an Accredited Specialist in Property Law since 1994. Gary is a Partner of the Property and Development Team at HWL Ebsworth. He is the co-author of ‘Land Acquisition 7th Edition’ and ‘Real Property Law Case Summaries 4th Edition’. Gary is the current sole author/editor of ‘LexisNexis NSW Conveyancing Service’ as well as the book ‘2022-2023 Annotated Conveyancing and Real Property Legislation NSW’. Gary is a member of the Property Law Committee of the Law Society of NSW. Gary is Chairman for NSW of the Law Council of Australian Property Law Group.