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Criminal Procedure Amendment (Briefs of Evidence) Regulation 2009 (NSW)

The New South Wales Government has published the Criminal Procedure Amendment (Briefs of Evidence) Regulation 2009 (NSW). The object of this Regulation, as provided by the explanatory statement, is...

Speeches to note: In Praise of Unelected Judges

Chief Justice Robert French yesterday delivered an address, 'In Praise of Unelected Judges", at the John Curtin Institute of Public Policy in Perth. The chief justice reflected upon the use of the...

National Legal Profession Reform Consultative Group

The executive director of the Bar Association, Philip Selth OAM is among those named by Attorney-General Robert McClelland as members of the National Legal Profession Reform Consultative Group...

New appointment to the Supreme Court of New South Wales

The Hon Justice Monika Schmidt has been appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of NSW. Justice Schmidt will be sworn in at a private ceremony on 27 July 2009. She was appointed a judge of the...

Fee relief for clients of the Office of the Protective Commissioner

Attorney General John Hatzistergos today announced further fee relief for clients of the Office of the Protective Commissioner (OPC). As of today, the government will reduce the annual cap that the...

Final reminder to the outer bar: appointment of senior counsel 2009

All members of the outer bar are invited to apply for appointment as senior counsel. The Bar Association will accept applications until **5.00pm on Friday 31 July 2009. **The principles governing...

Scholarship for competition law

The Business Law Section of the Law Council of Australia is offering the Gaire Blunt scholarship for a second year.� The scholarship commemorates Gaire Blunt who was a leading competition law...

Introducing the Jewish Arbitration and Mediation Service (ADVERTISEMENT)

On each occasion the Jewish people have been dispersed they have established in every place of their dispersal Rabbinical Courts (Betei Din).� The aim of operation of Betei Din has varied from...

High Court of Australia - change in practitioners' room hire charges

The High Court has recently reviewed the charges for the hire of rooms to legal practitioners attending in Canberra for High Court hearings. The court has decided to include in the daily room hire...

New diversionary options for young offenders commence to commence on 1 July

The Children (Criminal Proceedings) Amendment (Youth Conduct Orders) Act 2008 and the Children (Criminal Proceedings) Amendment (Youth Conduct Orders) Regulation 2009 are to commence tomorrow, 1 July...

Cases selected for reporting in FCR by V Kline

Following are the cases selected by V Kline for reporting in FCR:

Australian Competition and Consumer Commission v Pratt (No 3) [2009] FCA 407 Consolidated Byrnes Holdings Ltd v Hardel Investments...

Two minutes to midnight on the PC renewal clock

If you have not yet received your practising certificate you cannot practise on and from tomorrow 1 July 2009. 'Practise' includes doing chamber work. If you have not submitted your renewal...

Cases selected for reporting in NSWLR by the editor, Bret Walker SC

The following cases will be published in a forthcoming volume of NSWLR:

_McClymont v The Owners - Strata Plan No 12139 _[2009] NSWSC 276 Rowlands v State of New South Wales [2009] NSWCA 136 ...

Law Council says Family Law Courts must be properly resourced

The Law Council of Australia has called on the Commonwealth to maintain its current level of support for the Family Law Courts and to fill vacancies in a timely way. [

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Comcare announces drop in premiums for Australian Government agencies

Comcare announced that the overall workers' compensation premiums for Commonwealth Government agencies has dropped to a seven-year low to 1.25 per cent for 2009-10. Comcare said the drop represents...

Court attire for Justice Austin's swearing-in

A ceremonial sitting for the swearing-in of Stewart Austin as a judge of the Family Court will be held on� Monday, 13 July 2009 at 9.30am in the Supreme Court of NSW Building, Church Street...

Legislation to note: changes to Federal Court fees

The Federal Court of Australia Amendment Regulations 2009 (No. 1) have been added to the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments.� The object of the Regulations, as provided by the...

Australian Government tables Hague Convention on service of documents

Attorney-General Robert McClelland has announced the tabling in parliament of the Hague Convention on Service Abroad of Judicial and Extrajudicial Documents in Civil and Commercial Matters 1965. The...

Family Law Courts joint liaison meeting

The Family Court and Federal Magistrates Court in Sydney will be holding its next joint liaison meeting with the profession on **Wednesday, 5 August 2009 at 5.00pm **at the Sydney Family Law Courts...

More appointments (and reappointments)

**The District Court of New South Wales **

The following persons have been reappointed as acting judges of the District Court of New South Wales for the period commencing on **1 July 2009 and...

Newcastle barrister appointed to the Family Court bench

Attorney-General Robert McClelland has announced the appointment of Mr Stewart Austin as a judge of the Family Court of Australia. Mr Austin, who was admitted as a barrister in 1997, will take up his...

Appointments to the AAT

Attorney-General Robert McClelland has announced seven appointments to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal. Learn more>

**26 June 2009 **

Latest ABS data on legal services shows barristers in the black for FY2007-08

The Australian Bureau of Statistics released a report on the state of the legal services industry for 2007-2008. According to ABS 8667.0, at the end of June 2008 there were 3,869 barristers operating...

Commonwealth Parliament to consider national consumer law

Thirteen different consumer protection laws will become one under a Bill introduced into the Australian Parliament today. The Trade Practices Amendment (Australian Consumer Law) Bill 2009 will...

Passage of the Crimes (Administration of Sentences) Amendment Bill 2009

Both houses of New South Wales Parliament have passed the _Crimes (Administration of Sentences) Amendment Bill 2009 _(NSW) just hours after it was introduced. The object of the bill, as provided by...