The Bar Library has announced the winners of the 2009 Academy Awards Competition. There was a two-way tie for first place between two members of the Bar Association's staff, Chris D'Aeth and Tess...
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This year marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln. The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln is an eight-volume set first published in 1953.� The set contains correspondence,...
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Commonwealth Attorney-General Robert McClelland delivered an address to the 2009 Constitutional Law Conference at New South Wales Parliament House last Friday evening. The attorney reflected on how...
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Legal Aid NSW is seeking applicants for the position of director, family law (Permanent full-time).� The total remuneration package is valued at up to $159,086 per annum, including salary...
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Legalwise Seminars has organised skills-based seminars to help members of the bar stay abreast of all the latest legislative developments. Join them for Gaming and Liquor Licensing Update a half-day...
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The Francis Forbes Society for Australian Legal History will host a prize-giving ceremony on Wednesday, 25 February 2009 at 10.30am for the winners of the 2008 Legal History Essay Competition. Sir...
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The following two opinions of the lords of appeal are available on the House of Lords web site, the first of which relates to the deportation to Jordan of Abu Qatada.
RB (Algeria) (FC) and another...
Read more >The NSW Council for Civil Liberties and the Law Council of Australia are opposed to some provisions of the Foreign Evidence Amendment Bill 2008, which was introduced into the Federal Parliament in...
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NSW Caselaw was developed in 1999 to provide on-line published judgments and decisions for courts and tribunals in New South Wales. Occasionally, judgments may be removed. For example, an earlier...
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New South Wales Attorney General John Hatzistergos today announced that the Circle Sentencing Programme will be widened to include Nambucca, the tenth such location.
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Read more >His Honour Acting Judge Duck has been reappointed as an acting judge of the District Court of New South Wales and as a member of the Dust Diseases Tribunal of New South Wales, effective 1 March 2009...
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The Commonwealth attorney-general invites expressions of interest for a number of appointments to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal at the level of deputy president, senior member and member in all...
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On Monday, 2 March 2009 there will be a ceremonial sitting for the swearing-in of Judge Robert Hulme SC as a judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales. Attorney General John Hatzistergos will...
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Counsel appearing before the Federal Magistrates Court do not wear robes or wigs. Except, it seems, in Queensland. A reader has informed In Brief that, pursuant to a local practice, counsel should...
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The New South Wales Government has launched a series of public forums on sentencing. A study by the Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research and the NSW Sentencing Council released last year found a...
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The following five cases will be published in a forthcoming volume of NSWLR: Russell v The Trustees of the Roman Catholic Church for the Archdiocese of Sydney [2008] NSWCA 217 Scicluna v NSW Land and...
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What is the Vietnamese Government's attitude to Christians? Have ordinary parishioners been harassed by the government? Answers to these questions and more may be easily accessed by practitioners and...
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Photos of the 2009 High Court ceremony for senior counsel, as well as the Australian Bar Association dinner, are now available for purchase from the photographer's web site.�
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The chair of the Bar of England and Wales, Desmond Browne QC, has welcomed a report showing the continuing strength of London's legal services sector and the contribution made by the bar. ...
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On 7 February 2009 the National Judicial College held its conference: "Judicial Reasoning, Art or Science?" In his opening address, Chief Justice Robert French observed that analysing the reasoning...
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Members are invited to attend the Law Councilâs 36th Australian Legal Convention, which will be held in Perth **from 17-19 September 2009. **The chief justice of the High Court will deliver the...
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The Indigenous Barristers Trust is currently seeking mentors for its Mentoring Indigenous Law Students Program. The purpose of this program is to provide opportunities for barristers to share their...
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Intelligence Squared Australia (IQ�), invite members to attend their 2009 season of debates. The next topic will be "Freedom of expression must include a licence to offend", which will take...
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Australian Women Lawyers and WLA NSW will be co-hosting a cocktail party to celebrate the handover of the AWL patronage from the Hon Mary Gaudron QC to Chief Justice Diana Bryant of the Family Court...
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The Supreme Court of Canada now provides webcasts of its proceedings, subject to certain� restrictions. Users must submit an online Request to Use Supreme Court of Canada Photographs, Videos or...
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