Inbrief

Coming up in CPD: Best Practice Guidelines

On Monday 27 October a seminar will be held in the common room at 5.15pm:"Regulation 176 and Best Practice Guidelines". Presented by Penny Thew and chaired by Trish McDonald SC. For full details...

Vale the Hon Edward Gough Whitlam AC QC (1916-2014)

The Hon Edward Gough Whitlam AC QC, former barrister and prime minister, died this morning. He was admitted to the New South Wales Bar in February 1947 and took silk in 1962. On 17 May 1999, during...

Tomorrow in CPD

Tomorrow evening we have a seminar being held in the Common Room at 5.15pm:"Marketing the Bar", presented by Ian Hemmings SC, Andrew Laughlin, Tean Kerr and chaired by Richard McHugh SC. For full...

Bar Council business for September 2014

Bar Council met on 25 September 2014 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 Council...

ATO releases revised Code of Settlement

The Australian Taxation Office has released its revised Code of Settlement, which it claims will result in "a better settlement experience" for clients, practitioners and ATO staff. The new plain...

Robe and wig swap

The District Court has advised InBrief that a barrister who attended the morning tea following the swearing-in of Judge Hatzistergos on Thursday, 16 October accidentally collected the wrong wig and...

Upcoming CPD Course: 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, commencing on...

LCA welcomes Legal Services Council appointment

The Law Council of Australia has issued a media release welcoming the appointment of the former chief justice of the Federal Court, Michael Black AC QC, as the inaugural chair of the Legal Services...

One for the diary: MIA Australian Immigration Conference 2014

The Migration Institute of Australia will hold its Immigration Conference 2014 in Canberra on 29 October – 1 November. Assistant minister for immigration and border protection, Senator the Hon...

Walker SC appointed to Uniform Legal Services Council

Bret Walker SC has been appointed to the Uniform Legal Services Council, the body tasked with applying uniform laws and rules for lawyers in Victoria and NSW. The Hon Michael Black AC QC, former...

ABA Advanced Trial Advocacy - Melbourne

The ABA will run its ninth Advanced Trial Advocacy Course on 19-23 January 2015 at the Federal Court Complex in Melbourne. This is a residential five day course that will develop your skills as an...

Information in relation to readers’ rooms

Information in relation to readers’ rooms is now available on the Bar Association’s website: http://www.nswbar.asn.au/coming-to-the-bar/readership

The website includes responses from individual...

MPC Wanderers to go on a Bloody Long Walk

Mike Staunton, Andrew Isaacs, Natasha Hammond, Michele Kearns and friends from Martin Place Chambers have formed a team, The MPC Wanderers, and set their sights on this Sunday's "Bloody Long Walk": a...

Coming up in CPD next week

Next week we have a seminar being held in the Common Room at 5.15pm on Wednesday, 22 October: "Marketing the Bar", presented by Ian Hemmings SC, Andrew Laughlin, Tean Kerr and chaired by Richard...

Criminal Defence Lawyers Association annual dinner

The Criminal Defence Lawyers Association will hold their annual dinner on Thursday, 30 October at 5.30pm in L’Aqua, The Roof Terrace, Cockle Bay Wharf. The guest speaker will be Judge Dina Yehia...

The Federal Court: A New National Court Framework

Practitioners are invited to attend a presentation by Chief Justice James Allsop AO, during which he will introduce the Federal Court’s new National Court Framework. It will take place on Monday, 3...

Murray Gleeson to deliver CIArb seminar

The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (Australia) invites members to an evening seminar on Friday, 31 October 2014, to be presented by the Hon Murray Gleeson AC QC on "Award Writing in International...

Bar Book Club

Wellbeing

The next meeting of the Bar Book Club will be held in the Bar Library at 6.00pm on Tuesday, 21 October. Reading matter will be The Death of Napoleon by Simon Leys (Pierre Ryckmans). A...

2014 Pink & Blue Ribbon Breakfast – RSVPs due tomorrow

Members and their friends are invited to the 2014 Pink & Blue Ribbon Breakfast on Friday, 24 October at Hyde Park Barracks Café. Come and enjoy a two-course breakfast and help raise money for two...

For the diary: a Vienna Convention breakfast

Members are invited to a breakfast seminar on the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG), otherwise known as The Vienna Convention, on Tuesday, 21 October...

Malaysia's sedition laws are a cause for concern: LCA

The Law Council of Australia has joined the Malaysian Bar and others in expressing concern over the continued use of sedition laws in Malaysia, saying they stifle freedom of speech and expression....

Sydney Peace Prize lecture and award ceremony

Julian Burnside AO QC will be awarded the 2014 Sydney Peace Prize at Sydney Town Hall on Wednesday, 5 November. After Mr Burnside has delivered the Peace Prize Lecture, the The Rt Hon Malcolm Fraser...

Health and Wellbeing Committee

On 28 August 2014 the Bar Council established a Health and Wellbeing Committee to be chaired by the junior vice-president, Moses SC. Members are invited to apply to be considered for appointment to...

Parliamentary report on child sexual assault offenders

The NSW Parliament's Joint Select Committee on Sentencing of Child Sexual Assault Offenders has tabled its report entitled Every Sentence Tells a Story - Report on Sentencing of Child Sexual Assault...

One for the diary: Aboriginal Family Law Conference

Members are invited to the Statewide Aboriginal Family Law Conference, to be held in Sydney on 27-28 November 2014 at UTS Sydney. The aim of the forum is to assist Aboriginal community organisations...