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Bar Association to host seminar with ACLA and ASIC

The Bar Association, the Australian Corporate Lawyers Association and the Australian Securities and Investment Commission invite members of the bar to a presentation by the corporate regulator...

TOMORROW: Offers of Compromise and Calderbank Offers

This seminar will be presented by Andrew Combe. The session will review the decision of Whitney and the amendments to rule 20.26 of the Uniform Civil Procedure Rules as well as the use of the...

TONIGHT: Regulation 176

Tonight's seminar will be presented by Penny Thew and chaired by Trish McDonald SC. For full details, please click here.

2014 CPD Conference Programs Now Online

The NSW Bar Association is conducting a number of conferences throughout February and March to assist members in obtaining their required CPD points. Conferences will be held at: - [North...

TONIGHT: Mediating Professional Negligence Disputes

This seminar will be presented by Campbell Bridge SC, Jeremy Gormly SC and Angela Bowne SC. Please download a brochure for full details here.

Official launch of LCA study on progression and re-engagement of female lawyers

Why women leave the legal profession and do not re-engage is an important issue and one which has been a priority for the Law Council of Australia (LCA). In 2013 the LCA conducted the National...

CIArb 2014 Diploma Course in International Commercial Arbitration

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The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (Australia Branch) and the Kuala Lumpur Regional Centre for Arbitration will conduct their 2014 Diploma Course in International Commercial...

Part-time employment opportunities wanted for Indigenous law students

Diversity

Do you need some clerical, administrative or research assistance to run your practice? If the answer is yes - why not employ an Indigenous law student? There are a number of students...

TONIGHT: Duty of Disclosure to and of Creditors in Orders or Binding Financial Agreements

Tonight's seminar will be presented by Peter Campton and Chaired by Peter Batey. For full details please download a brochure here.

Court of Criminal Appeal to sit in Parramatta

It has been announced that the Court of Criminal Appeal will sit in both Queens Square and Parramatta in the weeks commencing July 28 and August 4. Read more about the Supreme Court's return to...

The office of Queen's Counsel in New South Wales

The Bar Council has resolved to seek comment from members on the desirability of reinstating the use of the term “Queen’s Counsel” in NSW. The views of members are sought on the following...

Call for volunteers for judging university competitions

Mooting

Macquarie University Law Society (MULS) is seeking volunteers to assist with the judging of internal competitions, such as mooting and client interviewing, to be held at the North Ryde and...

Amendments to the UCPR came into effect today

On Monday, 3 March 2014 the Uniform Rules Committee approved 2 amendments to the Uniform Civil Procedure Rules: an amendment to rule 6.2 (extending the period a statement of claim is valid for...

Federal Court of Australia eLodgment change and Electronic Court File (ECF) Project update

The file size of documents that the Federal Court’s eLodgment system can accept has trebled. Litigants can now lodge documents up to 30mb. For more information, see How big can the documents be?...

TONIGHT: Conducting an Adminstrative Law Case in NSW and the New UCPR Rule 59

This seminar will be presented by Mark Robinson SC and chaired by Mary Rebehy. The seminar will cover rule 59 of the Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 (NSW) which took effect on 15 March 2013. The...

New Exhibition by Tamara Dean

Tamara Dean, who judged the 2013 Indigenous Barristers Trust Photo competition, is proud to announce her forthcoming exhibition at Olsen Irwin Gallery, 63 Jersey Road, Wollahra on 5-23 March 2014. '...

New UCPR forms

The Uniform Rules Committee has approved two new forms: Form 85, Summons (Judicial Review), and Form 107, Summons (Supervisory Jurisdiction).

Form 85 should be used (rather than form 4A or 4B) if...

Toongabbie Legal Centre criminal law CPD conference

Toongabbie Legal Centre will hold its criminal law CPD conference on Saturday, 15 March 2014. Guest speakers include Nicholas Cowdery AM QC, Phil Boulten SC and Steve Mark. For more information...

Honour for Fiona McLeod SC

The Law Council of Australia has congratulated its Executive member Fiona McLeod SC on her induction onto the Victorian Honour Roll for Women on International Women’s Day 2014. Learn more here.

Changes to extreme provocation

The NSW Government has introduced legislation to revise the partial defence of “extreme provocation”. Non-violent sexual advance - whether heterosexual or homosexual - as well as other...

TONIGHT: Offers of Compromise and Calderbank Offers

This evening's seminar will be presented by Andrew Combe. The session will review the decision of Whitney and the amendments to rule 20.26 of the Uniform Civil Procedure Rules as well as the use of...

ACT Bar Association 2014 CPD Conference

The ACT Bar Association will hold its 2014 CPD Conference on Saturday, 15 March 2014 at the University of Canberra in Building 6 (Business and Faculty of Law Building). Register now or download a...

World Indigenous Domestic Violence Conference

The World Indigenous Domestic Violence Conference will be held on 8-10 December 2014 at the Cairns Pullman International Hotel in Queensland. The 2014 World Indigenous Domestic Violence Conference is...

TONIGHT: Appearing for a Party at a Family Provision Mediation

Tonight's seminar will be presented by Robert Angyal SC, Raoul Wilson SC and Deborah Robinson. The seminar will canvass the issues that arise at mediation from the perspective of both counsel and...

Open Door Productions ‘Examination and Presentation Power’ Workshops - expressions of interest

Open Door Productions seeks Expressions of Interest for its 2014 courses (up to 7 CPD points), to be offered from March. Examination Power allows barristers to practise and analyse question sequences...