Inbrief

Submissions will close on Thursday 9 July.

The presentation night cocktail event will be hosted at Colin Biggers & Paisley on Thursday 29 July.

Note: ‘Outstanding fundamental issues’ may include, but are not limited to, constitutional recognition, treaty or bijuralism.”

The deadline for the submission of an essay is 31 August 2021 and this time limit is strictly observed, as the Rules Governing the Annual Essay Prize make clear.

Those Rules can be accessed here or on the Academy’s website: www.academyoflaw.org.au

Refer to the Academy’s website also for further information about the actual submission of an entry as well as information on previous winners.

Program: Click here

PRESENTERS:

• The Hon. Chief Justice Susan Kiefel AC, High Court of Australia
• The Hon. Justice Julie Ward, Chief Judge in Equity, Supreme Court of New South Wales
• Sandra Boyle TEP & Christopher Boyle TEP - Former Registrars of the Supreme Court of Western Australia (recently retired), Perth
• Prof. Gino Dal Pont, University of Tasmania
• Dr Bernard Walrut TEP, Murray Chambers, Adelaide
• Prof. John Glover, Owen Dixon Chambers, Melbourne
• Prof. Reid Mortensen, University of Southern Queensland
• Christine Smyth TEP, Christine Smyth Estate Lawyers, Brisbane
• John Balazs, Balazs Lazanas & Welch LLP, Sydney
• Kimberley Martin TEP, Worrall Moss Martin Lawyers, Tasmania
• Jane Needham SC, St James Hall Chambers, Sydney
• Michael Olesnicky TEP, Baker McKenzie, Hong Kong
• Michele Sheehan TEP, enTrust Law and Sheehan & Co, Brisbane
• Craig Gregson TEP, Gregson & Associates, Perth

Our second tutorial will be delivered on Monday 28 June by Dr Henry Kha of Macquarie University.

We are most grateful to Chief Justice Bathurst for the use of the Court.

Forbes Fund: We take this opportunity to remind members and friends about the Francis Forbes Fund. Members will recall that the Society’s objects include encouraging and promoting research into Australian legal history.

The Society supported the publication by the 2019 Forbes lecturer, Professor Anne Twomey (Sydney University) of Pitt Cobbett's grand opus "The Government of Australia" through the Fund. The book "The Constitution and Government of Australia, 1788 to 1919" by William Pitt Cobbett and edited by Anne Twomey was published by Federation Press in October 2019.

In 2020 grants from the Fund included the support of projects at Macquarie University: by Dr Kate Gleeson, Sinead Ring, Kim Stevenson “Legal Responses to Historical Child Sexual Abuse: Critical and Comparative Perspectives” and by Dr Henry Kha “The Unification of Australian Divorce Law under the Matrimonial Causes Act 1959” and at Sydney University: Professor Barbara McDonald, Dr Ben Chen, Dr Jeffrey Gordon, “Dynamic and Principled: The Influence of Sir Anthony Mason”.

The Society encourages donations to the Francis Forbes Fund to enable us to continue to support such worthy projects – a form for donations is available here: Forbes Fund Donation Form and on the web site http://www.forbessociety.org.au at DONATIONS. All donations to the Forbes Fund of $2.00 or more are tax deductible.

Upcoming Dates (in Banco Court):

• 9 June - Forbes Lecture to be presented by Gideon Haigh, the author of a recently released book on Chester v Waverley Corporation, starting at 5.15pm. The Lecture will be chaired by Forbes Society, the Hon JLB Allsop AO, Chief Justice, Federal Court of Australia
• 28 June (new event) - legal history tutorial by Dr Henry Kha of Macquarie University
• 19 August - Plunkett Lecture to be given by the Hon Justice Jacqueline Gleeson of the High Court and chaired by the Attorney General, the Hon Mark Speakman SC MP
• 22 September - Legal history tutorial by the Hon TF Bathurst AC, Chief Justice of NSW, on The History of Sentencing Law.

All enquiries and applications will be treated with the strictest confidence.

Our second tutorial will be delivered on Monday 28 June by Dr Henry Kha of Macquarie University.

We are most grateful to Chief Justice Bathurst for the use of Banco Court.

Forbes Fund: We take this opportunity to remind members and friends about the Francis Forbes Fund. Members will recall that the Society’s objects include encouraging and promoting research into Australian legal history.

The Society supported the publication by the 2019 Forbes lecturer, Professor Anne Twomey (Sydney University) of Pitt Cobbett's grand opus "The Government of Australia" through the Fund. The book "The Constitution and Government of Australia, 1788 to 1919" by William Pitt Cobbett and edited by Anne Twomey was published by Federation Press in October 2019.

In 2020 grants from the Fund included the support of projects at Macquarie University: by Dr Kate Gleeson, Sinead Ring, Kim Stevenson “Legal Responses to Historical Child Sexual Abuse: Critical and Comparative Perspectives” and by Dr Henry Kha “The Unification of Australian Divorce Law under the Matrimonial Causes Act 1959” and at Sydney University: Professor Barbara McDonald, Dr Ben Chen, Dr Jeffrey Gordon, “Dynamic and Principled: The Influence of Sir Anthony Mason”.

The Society encourages donations to the Francis Forbes Fund to enable us to continue to support such worthy projects – a form for donations is available here: Forbes Fund Donation Form and on the web site http://www.forbessociety.org.au at DONATIONS. All donations to the Forbes Fund of $2.00 or more are tax deductible.

Upcoming Dates (in Banco Court):

• 18 May (new event) - legal history tutorial by Dr Simon Chapple and presentation to 2020 Essay Competition prize-winners
• 9 June - Forbes Lecture to be presented by Gideon Haigh, the author of a recently released book on Chester v Waverley Corporation, starting at 5.15pm. The Lecture will be chaired by Forbes Society, the Hon JLB Allsop AO, Chief Justice, Federal Court of Australia
• 28 June (new event) - legal history tutorial by Dr Henry Kha of Macquarie University
• 19 August - Plunkett Lecture to be given by the Hon Justice Jacqueline Gleeson of the High Court and chaired by the Attorney General, the Hon Mark Speakman SC MP
• 22 September - Legal history tutorial by the Hon TF Bathurst AC, Chief Justice of NSW, on The History of Sentencing Law.

If you wish to attend in person, please RSVP to: rsvp.sydney@familycourt.gov.au

Be sure to take note of the images on the front cover. The first person to correctly identify all of the cases to which the images relate (or the closest to) will receive a prize from the Editor. Check the inside front cover for more details.

Hard copies will be out to you shortly. Enjoy!

Please register here for this webinar.

The Wellbeing Committee has a charter to encourage barristers to live a balanced and healthy lifestyle. We facilitate organised sporting, social and recreational activities. You can learn more by visiting the wellbeing pages on the Bar Association's website. If you have an idea to promote wellbeing, or would like more information about our initiatives, contact the Wellbeing Committee for more information: wellbeing@nswbar.asn.au.

Program: Click here

PRESENTERS:

• The Hon. Chief Justice Susan Kiefel AC, High Court of Australia
• The Hon. Justice Julie Ward, Chief Judge in Equity, Supreme Court of New South Wales
• Sandra Boyle TEP & Christopher Boyle TEP - Former Registrars of the Supreme Court of Western Australia (recently retired), Perth
• Prof. Gino Dal Pont, University of Tasmania
• Dr Bernard Walrut TEP, Murray Chambers, Adelaide
• Prof. John Glover, Owen Dixon Chambers, Melbourne
• Prof. Reid Mortensen, University of Southern Queensland
• Christine Smyth TEP, Christine Smyth Estate Lawyers, Brisbane
• John Balazs, Balazs Lazanas & Welch LLP, Sydney
• Kimberley Martin TEP, Worrall Moss Martin Lawyers, Tasmania
• Jane Needham SC, St James Hall Chambers, Sydney
• Michael Olesnicky TEP, Baker McKenzie, Hong Kong
• Michele Sheehan TEP, enTrust Law and Sheehan & Co, Brisbane
• Craig Gregson TEP, Gregson & Associates, Perth

If you wish to attend in person, please RSVP to: rsvp.sydney@familycourt.gov.au

The Law Council has also today published separate media releases welcoming budget initiatives relating to legal services supporting women and those experiencing mental health issues, investment in tackling sexual harassment and domestic and family violence, as well as its release concerning funding of the Federal Courts.