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Slater QC wins Indigenous Barristers Trust art raffle

Anthony Slater QC, from Ground Floor Wentworth Chambers, is the winner of last night's Indigenous Barristers Trust raffle of an original indigenous artwork - âPukaraâ by Iyawi Wikilyiri....

E-mailing proposed orders to the judicial registrar

Judicial Registrar Craig Smith has asked practitioners to email any proposed orders to the judicial registrar so that orders can be entered electronically into the new JusticeLink computer system...

@LCA: The monthly newsletter of the Law Council

The May 2010 issue of the Law Councilâs e-newsletter @TheLCA is now available. It features the president's message as well as reports on legal aid funding, military courts and National Law Week.... Read more >

Government introduces Bill for a Joint Parliamentary Committee on Human Rights

Commonwealth Attorney-General Robert McClelland has introduced legislation to enhance parliamentary scrutiny of laws for consistency with Australia's international human rights obligations._ The...

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

The following cases will be published in a forthcoming volume of NSWLR: Welzel v Francis [2010] NSWSC 75 Kernahan v ACN 003 134 475 Pty Ltd [2010] NSWSC 51 Air Tahiti Nui Pty Ltd v McKenzie [2009]...

Papers to note: bail law in NSW

The NSW Parliamentary Library has issued Briefing Paper 5/2010, Bail Law: Developments, Debate and Statistics. This paper reviews recent changes to bail laws and it outlines certain criticisms of...

WTO Law at Sydney University (ADVERTISEMENT)

Sydney Law School has announced a new post-graduate course on World Trade Organization (WTO) Law I. Professor Gillian Triggs examines the role of the WTO within the international legal system and its...

Swearing-in ceremony for Peter Garling SC

A ceremonial sitting for the swearing-in of Peter Garling SC as a judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales will be held on Monday, 7 June 2010 at 9.30am in the Banco Court, Queens Square....

TONIGHT - Seminar on International Commercial Arbitration: What the Bar Needs to Know

Following a joint announcement on 3 March 2010 by the Commonwealth and NSW Attorneys General of the establishment of Australian International Disputes Centre and the fact that the governments are...

Tonight: seminar on Law, Justice and Human Rights

Edward Santow, (University of New South Wales) and Julian Leeser (Executive Director, Menzies Research Centre) will present the penultimate seminar in the series âConstituting Lawâ. The...