Directors’ duties for non-profit and community boards

In May 2021, The Piddington Society hosted a professional development session on the responsibilities that individuals have as directors of non-profit and community boards.

We are pleased to make this publicly available.

Chris Pearce (Managing Partner, Blackwall Legal) provides a comprehensive overview of these duties with reference to legislation and case law. In the session, he provided further materials for people to consider.

He is followed by a panel discussion with Henry Jackson SC (Barrister, Francis Burt Chambers), Gemma Nugent (Lawyer and Director, Sound Legal) and Curtis Ward (Lawyer, Clairs Keeley Lawyers), three lawyers who serve on community and non-profit boards who discuss their experiences and contributions they make in these roles. The boards they have served on range from nationally operating organisations with significant staff, major cultural and event institutions, small community-based entities and entirely volunteer managed organisations.

For lawyers seeking CPD points for this session, upon completion you may claim 0.5 points in CA3 (Ethics and Professional Responsibility); 1 point in CA4 (Substantive Law). You can complete the session here (attracts CPD points).

We have made the session available at a discounted rate for non-practicing lawyers and the community generally to support their education in this area. You can watch session here (does not attracts CPD points).

Proceeds from The Piddington Society’s operations, including the completion of online learning, go toward our access to justice programs.

These include:

  • Piddington PLT, a graduate training program designed and delivered by lawyers through the prisms of collegiality and justice that provides a pathway to admission for new law graduates by placing them with community legal centres and working on access to justice projects;

  • Piddington Justice Fund, for community legal centres to request funds for projects and operations that otherwise would not be covered; and,

  • Kaartidjin, our First Nations Legal Education Fund, to support First Nations law and pre-law students to cover expenses that existing scholarships do not usually meet, such as textbooks, subscriptions, costs for unpaid internships in the community legal sector.

By completing this course with us, you have made a contribution to these projects and access to justice more generally. We thank you for your support.

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