Inbrief

Law Council lodges submission to the National Consultation on Human Rights

The Law Council today lodged its submission to the Australian Government’s National Consultation on Human Rights, calling for the adoption of a Charter of Human Rights at the federal level. Law...

New South Wales Government to introduce yet more bikie legislation

The NSW Government has announced today that it will introduce another round of legislation targeting motorcycle gangs. It will create a new class of search warrant to make it easier for police to...

Criminal Case Conferencing Trial Amendment (Extension) Regulation 2009 (NSW)

The Criminal Case Conferencing Trial Amendment (Extension) Regulation 2009 (NSW) has been published on the NSW Legislation web site. The object of this Regulation is to amend the Criminal Case...

Invitation to Law Week breakfast discussion on the law and the media

Members are invited to the City of Sydney's Law Week breakfast on Monday, 11 May 2009 at 7.30-9.00am at the City Tattersalls Club, 194-204 Pitt Street. Take part in a discussion about the...

Notification of UCPR Rule change and protection provided by court referral

The Supreme Court ADR Committee has issued a reminder in respect of a change to Uniform Civil Procedure Rule (UCPR) 20.7 and protection provided by the referral of matters to mediation pursuant to...

Federal Magistrates Court out of time

Commonwealth Attorney-General Robert McClelland has announced a major restructure of Federal Courts system by: merging the Federal Magistrates Court into the Family Court and Federal Court;...

President's speech delivered at the swearing in of Pepper J

A ceremonial sitting for the swearing in of Rachel Pepper as a judge of the Land and Environment Court was held on Friday, 1 May 2009 in the Banco Court, Queens Square. President Anna Katzmann SC...

Cases selected for reporting in FCR by V Kline

Following are the cases selected by V Kline for reporting in FCR: _ G & M Nicholas Pty Ltd v Minister for Finance and Deregulation_ [2009] FCA 121 Ranallo v Australian Community Pharmacy Authority...

Latest case notes from the Office of the Privacy Commissioner

Australian Privacy Commissioner Karen Curtis has published six new case notes:

A v Medical Practitioner [2009] PrivCmrA 1: Collection of personal information and access to personal information....

Quills to keyboards: the changing form of judgments

To mark ten years of publishing judgments electronically on NSW Caselaw, a free Law Week event has been organised at the Supreme Court of NSW for Thursday, 14 May 2009 at 5.00pm with presenters...

New procedures to streamline criminal trials

New South Wales Attorney General John Hatzistergos has announced plans for major reforms to criminal trials, in an effort to reduce delays. Mr Hatzistergos said one measure would give the court the...

New appointment to the Local Court

New South Wales Attorney General John Hatzistergos today announced the appointment of Elizabeth Ryan to the bench of the Local Court. Ms Ryan is senior assistant director of the Tax and Economic...

Position vacant: NSWLR verifier – casual/part-time

The Council of Law Reporting is looking for a verifier to assist in the preparation of reportable judgments for publication in the NSWLR. Responsibilities include: checking the accuracy of all...