Inbrief

Wanted: markers for UNE law assignment

University of New England Law School, Armidale NSW, is looking for markers for an administrative law assignment question, involving a HC case concerned with the review of facts _(Minister for...

Bar Council business for June 2012

Bar Council met on 7 June and 21 June 2012 in the boardroom of the New South Wales Bar Association. Matters reported elsewhere in In Brief are omitted from this summary of Bar Council business. Bar...

Fishing Club meeting postponed!

The first meeting of the NSW Bar Association Fishing Club has been postponed until further notice. The meeting, previously scheduled for 25 July 2012, will take place in early August with an exact...

Judges wanted for the Freehills Trial Advocacy Competition

The UNSW Law Society will be running the preliminary rounds of the Freehills Trial Advocacy Competition between **Monday, July 30 and Friday, August 24. **The competition runs from 6:00PM to 8:00PM...

Inquiry into national security legislation - extension of time for submissions

The Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security has extended by two weeks the deadline for submissions to its inquiry into potential reforms of national security...

Match report (albeit delayed): NSW Bar FC v Treasury United

Last Thursday, in possibly their most skilful performance of this season's Domain Soccer League, NSW Bar FC braved the icy conditions to take on the might of table leaders Treasury United. Bar FC...

Junior Drinks Tonight

Tonight is the first ‘Junior Drinks’, a monthly social function organised by the New Barristers Committee to provide new and junior barristers with a casual opportunity to catch up and...

This Week in CPD

Tuesday, 24 July: Meeting to consider proposed amendments to Admiralty Rules 1988 (Cth). Presented by Sandy Street SC and chaired by Greg Nell SC. For full details, please click here.

Wednesday, 25...

Vale Bradford Arthur Caffrey (1928-2012)

Bradford Caffrey, barrister, has died. Members will be advised of funeral arrangements as soon as they are known.

23 July 2012

The 7th National Indigenous Legal Conference

The seventh annual National Indigenous Legal Conference is to be held on 5 - 6 October at the University of Notre Dame, Fremantle and the University of Western Australia in Perth, Western Australia....

Diarise for next month: the 2012 Common Law Drinks, Friday 24 August

The 2012 Common Law Drinks Function will be held on Friday, 24 August. The final details and RSVP will be sent through In-Brief next week. Please reserve the date in your diary for another enjoyable...

Coup d'Etat at the Bakehouse Theatre (ADVERTISEMENT)

Only one week left to see Bakehouse Theatre's legal/political thriller Coup d’Etat. This award-winning play turns a story about the 1988 Malaysian Judicial Crisis "into deeply compelling human...

UNSW to host lecture on preventative detention

Members are invited to a free public lecture, hosted by UNSW Law, which�focusses on the use of preventative detention in the name of public protection. "Detaining the Dangerous: A comparative...

NSW Law Reports

NSWLR Volume 79, Part 5 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

19 July 2012

Sydney Law School course on GST principles (ADVERTISEMENT)

Sydney Law School has announced a new second semester course,�Goods and Services Tax Principles B, which will be held on Tuesday evenings, between 6-8pm at the St James Campus in Phillip Street.... Read more >

13th International Criminal Law Congress

The 13th International Criminal Law Congress will be held at Rydges Lakeland Resort in Queenstown, New Zealand, between Wednesday 12 and Sunday 16 September 2012 on the theme "Shrinking International...

Sydney Law School intensive course: Registered Associations (ADVERTISEMENT)

Sydney Law School has announced a�new labour law unit for 2012: Registered Associations, taught by Ingmar Taylor of State Chambers.�This Semester 2 intensive course will be held on 10-11 &...

STEP lecture on the trustee's right of indemnity (ADVERTISEMENT)

The Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP) invites you to an address by the Hon Justice James Allsop on "The nature of the trustee's right of indemnity and its implications for equitable...

New pro bono centre for the Asia-Pacific region

Attorney-General Nicola Roxon MP and secretary-general of the Law Council of Australia, Professor Sally Walker, today launched the Centre for Asia-Pacific Pro Bono (CAPPB), a new initiative...

STOP PRESS: 9 spots left at the Australian Lawyers Surfing Association 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...

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: The Owners - Strata Plan No 5290 v CGS & Co Pty Ltd [2011] NSWCA 168 State of New South Wales v Public Transport Ticketing...

NSW Law Reports

NSWLR Volume 79, Parts 3 and 4 are 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

16 July 2012

2013-14 Mediation Accreditation and Re-accreditation Information

The ADR Committee has released an information sheet for members who are interested in mediation accreditation or re-accreditation under the National Standards for the period 2013-14. The information...

Unsolicited emails

From time to time members bring unsolicited emails of concern to the attention of the Association.

A member has recently drawn attention to a series of emails received from an organisation seeking...

Forbes Society Public Lectures 2012

The Francis Forbes Society for Australian Legal History has arranged for a number of public lectures to be held in the NSW Bar Association Common Room in the coming months.

Tuesday, 11 September...