The next meeting of the Bar Book Club will be tomorrow, 16 August at 6pm in the library. The book is Five days in London, May 1940 by John Lukacs. 15 August 2011
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The Federal Court Rules 2011 will commence on 1 August 2011. In order to give legal practitioners and publishers an opportunity to become familiar with the Rules before they commence, a copy of these...
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On Wednesday the 3 August 2001, Peter Callaghan SC and Mark Dempsey SC will be presenting a seminar on arbitral award writing. This is the third in a series of Commercial Arbitration Act seminars of...
Read more >The International Bar Associationâs Human Rights Institute has launched the Justice for Burma Campaign to mobilise support among the worldâs legal profession for a United Nations Commission...
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The Australasia Legal, Mediation & Arbitration Conference 2011 is now open to registrations. ALMA 2012 will be held in Hong Kong from 11-13 January 2012 and has an expert line up of international...
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The Federal Magistrates Court Amendment Rules 2011 (No. 1) have been added to the ComLaw database. The Amendment Rules include a number of miscellaneous amendments to the_ Federal Magistrates Court...
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The Sports Law Conference and Suncorp "State of Origin" Football Challenge is open to _all members of the bar and the judiciary _(both players and non-players). The weekend's events kick off...
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In the next instalment of the Sydney Law School's Distinguished Speakers Program 2011, Dr David Bennett AC QC will discuss "Life at the bar" on** Thursday, 4 August 2011 between 6.00pm and 7.00pm....
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The Ross Parsons Centre of Commercial, Corporate and Taxation Law invites members to attend its seminar "On the 50th anniversary of The Wagon Mound (No 1): the neglected complexity of...
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Ms Helen Conway was recently appointed as� Director of the Workplace Gender Equity Agency. She was formerly General Counsel for Caltex and prior to that a partner in a large law firm and a...
Read more >The Commonwealth Attorney General, the Hon Robert McClelland MP, and the President of the Law Council of Australia, Alexander Ward, today launched the South Pacific Lawyers Association, a new...
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Following extensive public and professional consultation, the Council of the New South Wales Bar Association has approved the introduction of new New South Wales Barristersâ Rules to reflect the...
Read more >Alec Shand QC died last night. Details of the funeral ceremony will be provided as soon as they become available.
8 July 2011
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On Thursday, 21 July 2011 the Federal Court will videocast the Australian Maritime and Transport Arbitration Commission's 2011 annual address. Mr Peter Mannion, general manager of operations at Rio...
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Attorney-General Robert McClelland has announced that the substantive provisions of the Civil Dispute Resolution Act 2011 _(Cth)� will commence by proclamation� on 1 August 2011. The _Civil...
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It was on 26 August 1928 that Mrs May Donoghue drank ginger beer from a tumbler which, it was claimed, contained the remains of a decomposed snail. To mark the occasion of the 83rd anniversary of...
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The Civil Dispute Resolution Regulations 2011 (Cth) and Explanatory Statement have been published on ComLaw. The Regulations exclude a number of proceedings in the Federal Court of Australia and the...
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The Sydney Centre for International Law presents its seminar series on cutting edge developments in public and private international law. The first, 'Australia's new policy on investor-state dispute...
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The Women Lawyersâ Association of New South Wales (WLANSW) nominations for their 2011 New South Wales Women Lawyers Achievement Awards will close on the 31 July 2011. Download a nomination form....
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Changes to the Migration Act that toughen the penalties for criminal behaviour in immigration detention have been passed by the Australian Parliament. Under the Migration Amendment (Strengthening the...
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NSW Minister for Finance and Services, Greg Pearce announced today that the NSW Government had introduced changes to WorkCoverâs Vocational Rehabilitation Programs that simplify the process for...
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The Office of the Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO) is seeking expressions of interest from barristers with diverse areas of practice, who wish to accept FWO briefs. The functions of the FWO include the...
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NSWLR Volume 77, Part 1 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
**5 July 2011 **
Read more >The _Roads Amendment (Penalty Notice Offences) Regulation 2011 _and the Road Transport Legislation Amendment (Penalty Levels and Fees) Regulation 2011 have been published on the Legislation NSW web...
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Parts 2 to 5 of the Civil Dispute Resolution Act 2011 (Cth) have been proclaimed to commence on 1 August 2011. Last month the Bar Association's ADR Committee published a schedule setting out the main...
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