Proactive conflict management: beyond the conflict check

Ashley Macknay

Director at MDS Legal

Ashley Macknay is a Director of MDS Legal in Perth and practises principally in the areas of professional indemnity (defending claims against lawyers) and professional discipline relating to the legal profession.

Ashley has been a member of the panels of solicitors for both Law Mutual (WA) (the Law Society of Western Australia’s professional indemnity arm) and the Legal Practice Board of Western Australia (the regulator of the legal profession in Western Australia) for many years.

Ashley was a member of the Legal Profession Rules Advisory Committee in Western Australia which drafted the Legal Profession Conduct Rules 2010 (WA)

Ashley has also been the Law Society of Western Australia’s delegate to the Professional Ethics Committee of the Law Council of Australia since the inception of that Committee in 2009.  As a member of that Committee, Ashley has participated in the drafting of the Australian Solicitors’ Conduct Rules, which are about to replace in Western Australia the Legal Profession Conduct Rules 2010 (WA), and the Commentary to the Australian Solicitors’ Conduct Rules.