Inbrief

Tonight in CPD

Tonight at 5.15pm, we have a seminar being held in the Common Room:

"Aspects of Judicial Review", presented by Mark Robinson SC and chaired by the Honourable Justice S Rothman AM. For full details...

Tomorrow in CPD

On Tuesday, 19 August Julian Burnside AO QC & Professor Jane McAdam will present "The Refugee Debate in Australia: Alternative Perspectives". This seminar will be chaired by Dr Sarah Pritchard SC....

Coming up in CPD on Monday

On Monday 18 August at 5.15pm, we have a seminar being held in the Common Room:

"Aspects of Judicial Review", presented by Mark Robinson SC and chaired by the Honourable Justice S Rothman AM. For...

The Refugee Debate in Australia

On Tuesday, 19 August Julian Burnside AO QC & Professor Jane McAdam will present "The Refugee Debate in Australia: Alternative Perspectives". This seminar will be chaired by Dr Sarah Pritchard SC....

Counsel taking multiple hearing briefs

The president of the Workers Compensation Commission recently drew attention to the problem of counsel taking multiple briefs for matters listed at the same time. In e-Bulletin No 57, July 2014 the...

Papers to note: Family Law Council’s Report on Parentage and the Family Law Act

The Family Law Council has released its Report on Parentage and the Family Law Act. According to the Attorney General's Department web site, this report "provides advice to the attorney-general on a...

Yoga hiatus

Attention bar yogis: the yoga class on Tuesday, 19 August at 1.00pm will be the last until classes resume upon completion of the Bar Practice Course on Tuesday, 23 September. Morning classes will...

Mediation accreditation, District Court mediation list and Family Law Settlement Service applications now open

Applications are now open for barristers seeking mediation accreditation or re-accreditation with the New South Wales Bar Association as well as appointment to the District Court mediation list and...

Upcoming CPD Courses: Accounting & Valuation

This practical four week course has been organised in collaboration with KordaMentha Forensic. The course will run over four consecutive Thursdays (5pm to 7pm) in October/November 2014. It is...

CPD in August

A number of seminars have been scheduled in the Common Room for this month:

Wednesday 13 August: Costs Disclosure & Fee Recovery: The Road to Riches or a Painful Path to a PCC. Presented by Janet...

Vale Paul Lawrence Formosa (1954-2014)

Paul Formosa, formerly of 44 Edmund Barton Chambers, died on 11 August. A service of thanksgiving to celebrate his life will be held on Monday, 18 August 2014 at St Agnes Catholic Church, Hay Street,...

Three new magistrates for NSW.

Attorney General Brad Hazzard announced on Wednesday, 13 August the appointments of Claire Girotto, Erin Kennedy and Philip Stewart as magistrates of the Local Court of NSW.

Ms Girotto will be sworn...

Who's that next to Barwick?

On Monday InBrief published a photograph which was uncovered recently in the Bar Association archives. We asked for assistance in identifying all of the members seated around the table. InBrief was...

Reminder: Ceremonial welcome for Chief Judge Derek Price AM

A formal ceremony to mark the appointment of the Hon Justice Derek Price AM as the new chief judge of the District Court will be held in the Banco Court on tomorrow, 14 August 2014 at 9.00am....

2014 Judicial Q&A - RSVP by this Friday

Specifically for the junior bar (barristers called to the New South Wales Bar in 2007 or later), the Judicial Q&A event enables the junior bar to put forward questions for the judicial panel to...

2014 Common Law Drinks - RSVP by this Friday

Judges, barristers and clerks are warmly invited to the 2014 Common Law Drinks to be held on Friday, 22 August at The Hide, upstairs at the Bull & Bear, 16 Phillip Lane, Sydney. The guest speaker...

ABA calls for Top End magistrates to be above party politics

The Australian Bar Association has called on a Northern Territory magistrate, Mr Peter Maley, to terminate his on-going participation in Country Liberal Party affairs, immediately, before he does...

Tonight in CPD

At 5.15pm tonight we have a seminar being held in the Common Room on Costs Disclosure & Fee Recovery: The Road to Riches or a Painful Path to a PCC. Presented by Janet McDonald and chaired by Ingmar...

Tasmania’s anti-protest bill: A failed recipe for more costs, conflict in streets

The Australian Bar Association has issued a media release today, which condemns a new law designed to prevent anti-logging and mining protests in Tasmania. The ABA warns that it will stifle freedom...

WBF general meeting

A general meeting of the Women Barristers Forum will take place on 28 August 2014 at 5.00pm in the Bar Association Conference Room 3.

The current subcommittees are:

• NARS Response Subcommittee
...

Supreme Court practice note on representative proceedings

The chief justice of New South Wales, the Honourable T F Bathurst AC, has re-issued Practice Note SC Gen 17 - Representative Proceedings. It replaces former Practice Note SC Gen 17 which was issued...

Two judicial appointments in Victoria

Victorian Attorney-General Robert Clark today announced the appointment of the Hon Justice Anne Ferguson to the Court of Appeal and Joanne Cameron to the Supreme Court of Victoria. Learn more here.

Who's that next to Barwick?

The Bar Association does have some valuable photographs in its archive, but cataloguing them can be difficult. In Garfield Barwick's file, InBrief uncovered this one in an envelope, simply labelled...

Murray Gleeson AC QC to deliver the Garfield Barwick Address

The 5th Annual Sir Garfield Barwick Address will be held on Wednesday, 20 August 2014, and will be delivered by the Hon Murray Gleeson AC QC during a dinner at the Castlereagh Boutique Hotel, 169...

For the diary: Australian Charity Law Association Conference

Commissioner Robert Fitzgerald AM will be the keynote speaker at the Australian Charity Law Association Conference on 29 August 2014. The theme of the conference will be "Charity Law and Regulation:...