The newly opened Martin Place Early Learning Centre has been designed in keeping with the Reggio Emilia educational philosophy, which is focused on collaboration between children, parents and...
Read more >A retirement ceremony will be held for the Hon R O Blanch AM, Chief Judge of the District Court of NSW, at 9.30am on Thursday 7 August in the Banco Court, Level 13, Law Courts Building, Queens...
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The Bar Association has criticised the New South Wales Government's latest bout of tinkering with the state's bail laws. In a media release issued today, President Jane Needham SC described the...
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The president of the Northern Territory Bar Association, John Lawrence SC, has launched a scathing attack on state and federal governments, past and present, for what he described as "lamentable,...
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Members are invited to the launch of The Only Case, the latest novel by the Hon Ian Callinan AC. It will be held in the Bar Association Common Room on Friday, 15 August 2014 at 5.15pm. The book will...
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Legal Aid News for August 2014 is out now, featuring articles on dispute resolution in Family Courts, the National Review of Legal Services, the new Legal Aid NSW means test and much more. You can...
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On Wednesday, 6 August 2014 the Francis Forbes Society for Australian Legal History will host a tutorial by Justice Ashley Black on the "History of Statutory Interpretation". The tutorial will...
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The president of the Australian Bar Association, Mr Mark Livesey QC, has issued a media release calling on the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) to acknowledge and address unacceptable and...
Read more >"The standard you walk past is the standard you accept"
Lieutenant General David Morrison, chief of the Australian Army, will be the guest of honour at the official launch of the Bar Association's...
Read more >The New South Wales Bar Association’s childcare scheme commenced with the opening of a new Guardian Early Learning Centre in Martin Place, Sydney today. The Bar...
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The results of the Not The NSW Bar Association World Cup Tipping Competition are now to hand and David Chin was the winner. Mark Paul and Janet McDonald took second and third place...
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A number of seminars have been scheduled in the Common Room for next week:
Monday 11 August: UN Comission of Inquiry on Human Rights in North Korea. Presented by the Honourable Michael Kirby AC AMG...
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The Bar Association's childcare scheme for members has featured in this week's edition of Lawyers Weekly.
In an interview for the story, President Jane Needham SC said:...
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In Brief is informed that today is possibly the 300th anniversary of the traditional barristers' robes. According to this view, the black gowns were adopted on 1 August 1714 in mourning for the death...
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Rashda Rana (NSW Bar and London - Thirty Nine Essex Street Chambers) has been elected president of ArbitralWomen, the International Network of Women in Dispute Resolution. Learn more here.
Read more >The Hon Peter McInerney QC, retired judge of the Supreme Court, died last night. A funeral will be held on Thursday, 7 August 2014 at 10.30am in the chapel of St Joseph's College, Hunters Hill.
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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...
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Bar FC dug deep today with a gritty performance to see off a youthful and skilful Sydney Business School resulting in a 0-0 draw in the Domain this afternoon.
(Capt) Harris pulled off a wonderful...
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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...
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