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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
Read more >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...
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The NSW Sheriff's Office has reviewed security arrangements at courts throughout the state, after the Australian National Terror Threat Alert level was raised to "high" on 12 September. Beginning 20...
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EDO NSW (formerly Environmental Defender’s Office) is an independent community legal centre specialising in public interest environmental law. It was established in 1985 and today provides a full...
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The 2014 Paul Byrne SC Memorial Lecture will be delivered by The Hon J D Heydon QC AC at the University of Sydney Law School from 6.00pm on Wednesday, 15 October. Attendance is complementary, however...
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Throughout October, International Justice Mission Australia is running the Time For Justice campaign. The Barrister's Clerks Association, along with 9 Windeyer Chambers and Trust Chambers, are...
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The 2014 Plunkett Lecture, will be held tonight at 5.15pm in the Bar Association Common Room. It will be presented by Professor Anne Twomey and chaired by Chief Justice Allsop AO. The topic for this...
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Nominations for the 2015 Bar Council closed at 4.00pm today.
Thirty-nine senior counsel and 71 members of the junior bar (including nineteen under 5s) have nominated.
An acknowledgment of the...
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The Osgoode Hall Law School Library in Canada has announced the official launch of the Osgoode Digital Commons, providing free, online access to its legal scholarship.
Osgoode is the first law...
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The Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP) invites you to an address by the Hon Joe Campbell QC FAAL, adjunct professor, Sydney Law School on "Equitable Remedies Against a...
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The Bar Association's Common Law Committee has published Practice Update 68, with case notes on sections 63, 95 and 126 of the Motor Accidents Compensation Act 1999 and employment / extension of...
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The 2014 Plunkett Lecture, will be held tomorrow at 5.15pm in the Bar Association Common Room. It will be presented by Professor Anne Twomey and chaired by Chief Justice Allsop AO. The topic for this...
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The Hon John Hatzistergos has been appointed as a judge of the District Court of New South Wales. A formal ceremony to honour this occasion will be held in the John Maddison Tower on Level 21, at...
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The Mediation Practice Group, a sub-committee of the Bar Association's ADR committee, will be hosting a "Mediator Chat" on "Med-Arb - it's the unloved mongrel of ADR" on Tuesday, 28 October 5.30pm in...
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The 2014 Plunkett Lecture, scheduled for Tuesday, 14 October at 5.15pm in the Bar Association Common Room, will be presented by Professor Anne Twomey and chaired by Chief Justice Allsop AO. The topic...
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