The chief justice of the Federal Court has approved the dates for the sitting of the full court in 2010. Subject to there being sufficient business, sittings of a full court of the Federal Court of...
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Executive inquiries, such as the Clarke Inquiry into the case of Dr Mohamed Haneef and the AWB Food-for-Oil Inquiry, have become a prominent feature of federal political and legal affairs and an...
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The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) today released the latest set of annual reports on policies and claims for public and products liability (PL) and professional indemnity (PI)...
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_New South Wales Law Reports _Volume 72, Part 3, is now available to online and print subscribers. For a list of cases in the part, and other NSWLR parts and volumes, go to www.nswlr.com.au/reports ... Read more >
Last Friday, the director of public prosecutions, Nick Cowdery AM QC, was the special guest speaker at a lunch hosted by the New South Wales Council for Civil Liberties. Under the title� "...
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The NSW Law Reform Commission released a report on Invasion of Privacy (Report 120), which recommends that, as part of a uniform law initiative in Australia, New South Wales should amend the Civil...
Read more >How many test cases has the Commonwealth Government funded during the past 10 years? In response to an Opposition question on notice in the Senate, the Attorney General's Department's Legal...
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The Sydney Electronic Text and Image Service (SETIS) is a scholarly electronic publishing and digital library service, which contains, among other things, important texts, images and digital theses....
Read more >CHOICE wants consumers to be more aware of their rights to help avoid being overcharged by lawyers, and, if they feel they have been ripped off, to know who to complain to try and resolve the issue.... Read more >
The Queensland University of Technology's Faculty of Law invites members to attend the launch of its newest degree, the Master of Intellectual Property Law, which will be run as a joint venture with...
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Attorney-General Robert McClelland has announced the appointment of Mr Simon Moncrieff SC to the Family Court of Australia. Mr Moncrieff is the president of the Family Law Practitioners Association...
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The Hon Justice Ian Gzell, chairman of the Sydney branch of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP), invites you to an address by Matt Daley (parter at Clayton Utz) and Mike Hawkins...
Read more >New research by the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research shows that offenders dealt with under the Forum Sentencing scheme are no less likely to re-offend than offenders dealt with in a...
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The Law Council of Australia will be among the organisations with a representative on the new advisory board of the Office of the Migration Agents Registration Authority (MARA). The board, to be...
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Attorney-General Robert McClelland has released for public consultation the Australian Governmentâs Discussion Paper on National Security Legislation. Submissions will be accepted until 25...
Read more >Ms Ellen Lucy Skinner and Mr Glenn Kevin Walsh have been appointed as magistrates of the Local Court of New South Wales commencing on and from** 24 August 2009.� **View the attorney general's...
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Attorney General John Hatzistergos has announced a review of the NSW Charter of Victims Rights. The review, being conducted by the Department of Justice and Attorney General, will examine how the...
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Following are the cases selected by V Kline for reporting in FCR: _ Victoria v Pacific Technologies (Australia) Pty Ltd (No 2)_ [2009] FCA 737 Milne v Minister for Immigration and Citizenship [2009]...
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The following cases will be published in a forthcoming volume of NSWLR:
R v TK [2009] NSWCCA 151 Tzaidas v Child [2009] NSWSC 465 _Hunter and New England Area Health Service v A _[2009] NSWSC...
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The Sydney Writers' Festival, in conjunction with the Julius Stone Institute, University of Sydney, and Monash University present a forum on "Judicial Values: Should judges just apply the law, or...
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The Bar Library has added 24 new titles into its collection.
M570.A1/CHO/2008 Abuse of process and judicial stays of criminal proceedings / Andrew L-T Choo, Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2nd ed,...
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The History Council of NSW invites members to attend its annual lecture, on Friday, 4 September 2009 at 6.00pm in Government House, Macquarie Street, Sydney.� The lecture will be on "The...
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Truth in sentencing laws in the United States have resulted in a dramatic increase in the length of time that people spend in prison and a growing number of prisoners sentenced to life without the...
Read more >The Administrative Appeals Tribunal and the ACT Bar Association will host a full day seminar on "The Obligation to Assist: Model Litigants in Administrative Appeals Tribunal Proceedings". The seminar...
Read more >Attorney-General Robert McClelland today announced the appointment of Anne Britton and Regina Perton to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT). Learn more >
**7 August 2009 **
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