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Throughout the
weekend, there will be:
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Legal Encounters / Talks
- where you can listen to legal and industry experts discuss
current issues and ask questions
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Legal Exhibitions
– where you can learn about common legal topics and pick up
brochures about legal issues you are interested in.
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Free Walk-In Legal Clinics
– where you can
spend up to 20 minutes discussing your legal issue with a lawyer
Legal
Encounters
These are interactive sessions.
A panel of legal and industry
experts will provide you with a brief outline of the relevant issues
for each topic, and then answer your questions.
Saturday 24 October
2009
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2pm
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Employment Law: So You Are
Hired!
Find
out about the laws that apply to your work and your terms of
employment
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5pm
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Employment Law: So You Are
Fired!
Understand what happens when your employment is terminated,
how your termination notice works, and what is wrongful
dismissal
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Sunday
25 October 2009
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12pm
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Jobless and In Debt?
How to
manage your debts, new bankruptcy laws, new debt
restructuring schemes
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2pm
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Youth and The Internet
Come
find out what are the major risks of the internet and what
you can do to protect your family
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4pm
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Work and the Internet
Using
the Internet at your workplace, data privacy and protection
relating to your work
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Free Walk-In Legal Clinics*
Want to have a 20 minute
consultation with a lawyer about a legal issue that is troubling
you?
Walk in to our FREE legal
clinics held at the Law Reach Event:
Saturday 24
October 10am - 6pm
Sunday 25 October
10am - 6pm
Our lawyers
will provide you with some general legal guidance on your issue and
some tips about what your next step should be.
*Legal
counselling is on a first-come-first-served basis.
*NTUC members enjoy priority queue, however depending on the crowd,
waiting time would still be required.
Legal Exhibitions
The following
topics will be featured in the legal exhibitions:
Employment
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What is
your contractual notice period for resignation? Can you receive
pay in lieu?
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Do you think you’ve been
wrongfully dismissed?
What’s the next step with
MOM?
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Can your old
employer restrict what you do next?
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What are
your employment confidentiality obligations?
Recession Debt
& Bankruptcy
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What
happens if you file for bankruptcy?
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What’s a
debt restructuring scheme?
Family
Issues and Domestic Violence
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Where can
you go for help?
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What can you
do if your spouse hits you or your children?
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What are the
different types of maintenance I can claim?
Youth Crime &
the Internet
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Sexual
grooming : What are the new laws relating to sexual predators on
the Net?
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How are the police working to
protect our youth?
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How to
effectively supervise your children’s use of the Internet?
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