Inbrief

Reminder: Button SC swearing-in

Deputy Senior Public Defender Richard Button SC has�been appointed�as a judge of the Supreme Court of NSW. Button SC�will be sworn in�on 12 June 2012 in Federal Court 1, on Level...

Expressions of interest sought: Family Law Settlement Initiative

During the months of July, August and possibly September, it is anticipated that the NSW Bar Association will be participating with the Law Society, the Family Court of Australia and the Federal...

City of Sydney Law Society Law Week Breakfast

The City of Sydney Law Society invites members to their 2012 Law Week Breakfast between 7:15am - 8:45am on Wednesday, 16 May 2012�at the Swissotel, 68 Market Street Sydney. Guest of Honour and...

Law Council responds to the Budget

The Law Council of Australia has expressed disappointment at the Commonwealth Government’s failure to do more in this year’s Budget to improve access to legal services for disadvantaged...

Amendments to Supreme Court and Criminal Appeal rules

The Supreme Court Rule Committee has approved the following amendment to the Supreme Court Rules and the Criminal Appeal Rules. Supreme Court Rules (Amendment No 419) 2012 (2012-172)�| Criminal...

Are your details on ‘Find a Barrister’ correct?

The Bar Association’s web-based directory ‘Find a Barrister’ was upgraded late last year to include additional information about members, including their academic qualifications, other...

NSW Bar FC top of its division in the DSL

With�the world distracted by the�race between Man U and Man City for supremacy in the English Premier League,�NSW Bar FC's rise to�top spot�in�its division of the Domain...

Learned Friends Legal Conference, Cambodia (ADVERTISEMENT)

Learned Friends Professional Education is holding a conference in Siem Reap Cambodia from 5 - 11 January 2013. Following the tremendous success of our Vietnam conference in January 2012, we have...

Bar Council business for 22 March 2012

Bar Council held a meeting on Thursday�22 March 2012 in the Boardroom of the New South Wales Bar Association at 4.30 pm. Matters reported elsewhere in In Brief are omitted from this summary of...

Australian Lawyers Surfing Association annual conference

The Australian Lawyers Surfing Association Inc is presenting its sixth annual continuing legal education conference for surfers and their partners at Resort Latitude Zero in the Telo islands from...

Tenth Annual Asylum Seekers Centre NSW Quiz Night

The Asylum Seekers Centre of New South Wales presents its tenth annual Quiz Night Battle of the Bands on Friday, 18 May 2012 at�North Sydney Leagues Club, 12 Abbott Street, Cammeray, at 7.00pm....

New Local Court Practice Notes

The following Local Court Practice Notes commenced on 1 May and are now in force:

Crim 1 - Case management of criminal proceedings in the Local Court;

2/2012 - Domestic and Personal Violence...

Register for the PILCH Walk for Justice - 15 May 7.30am

PILCH’s fifth annual Walk for Justice in Sydney is an early morning meander along the harbour foreshore leaving from Hyde Park, which takes place on National Pro Bono day and marks the beginning...

Immigration information session

The Department of Immigration & Citizenship will be conducting an information session on Monday, 14 May 2012 between 3.30-5pm at the DIAC offices on level 5, 256-300 Elizabeth Street Surrey Hills...

Bar Book Club meetings

Wellbeing

The Bar Book Club has resolved never to do another Russian novel. So, at its next meeting, which will be held on Tuesday, 12 June at 6.00pm, the�book for discussion will be�Blood...

Legal assistance review

The Allen Consulting Group has won a tender to�conduct a review of Australia’s Commonwealth-funded legal assistance services. All four Commonwealth legal assistance programs will be...

Essentials of Family Law Practice 2012

The Law Council of Australia's Family Law Section will hold an intensive seminar�titled�Essentials of Family Law Practice, here in Sydney on�29 November–1 December 2012 at the...

Inquiry into the New South Wales Workers Compensation Scheme

Parliament has�resolved to establish a joint select committee to inquire into the New South Wales Workers Compensation Scheme.�The committee will be chaired by the Hon Robert Borsak MLC of...

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

The following case/s will be published in a forthcoming volume of NSWLR: Allianz Australia Insurance Ltd v Kerr [2012] NSWCA 13 DSJ v The Queen; NS v The Queen [2012] NSWCCA 9 JB v The Queen [2012]...

Australian / Turkish Labour Law Conference, July 2012 (ADVERTISEMENT)

The Australian/Turkish Labour Law Conference will be held in Sultanahmet, which is an inner suburb of Istanbul, between 1 and 6 July 2012. This conference is for lawyers specialising in labour law...

Judge wanted for forensic document examiners' moot

The Australasian Society of Forensic Document Examiners Inc. is holding a moot on Saturday, 26 May at the Department of Immigration and Citizenship, 300 Elizabeth Street (corner of Foveaux Street) in...

ALRC issues paper on mature age participation in the workforce

The Australian Law Reform Commission today released an issues paper (ALRC IP 41, 2012) for its inquiry into legal barriers to mature age participation in the workforce and other productive work. The...

Volunteers needed for the Benjamin Andrew Footpath Library

The Benjamin Andrew Footpath Library has asked for volunteers from Clayton Utz and the NSW Bar to spend a couple of hours packing books for various hostels in New South Wales at the library’s...

CJ of South Australia declares his innings closed

Chief Justice Doyle has tendered his resignation as chief justice of South�Australia,�effective�Friday, 22 June 2012.�By that date he will�have been in the role for 17 years....

Religious liberty v secularism

What is the�legal definition of secularism? What should happen when religious liberty appears to be at odds with public policy: for example the right of conscience for medical professionals and...