Inbrief

STEP Annual Charities Event

Promoted by STEP

The Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP) invites you to an address by Steve Coleman, CEO, RSPCA NSW and Sue Becker, CEO, Lifestart on "Legal issues facing major...

Tiro: Next Generation Barrister Practice Management Software is coming soon…..

Promoted by Tiro Systems

Launching in August 2015, Tiro is a competitively priced, fully web-based, next generation Barrister Practice Management System. Tiro provides intuitive tools which give you...

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 July/August and October 2015. It is...

Next Week in CPD

A seminar will be held in the Common Room on Monday, 25 May at 5.15pm: "Appelate Advocacy". It will be presented by David Jackson QC and chaired by Neil Williams SC. For full details please download...

Women Barristers Forum AGM to be held 4 June 2015

The Women Barristers Forum ("WBF") is a section of the NSW Bar Association. All women members of the NSW Bar Association are deemed members of the WBF, are invited to participate as members of the...

NSW Bar Half Marathon Team - Congratulations

Congratulations to the NSW Bar Association's half marathon team for raising over $36,500 for the Katrina Dawson Foundation and securing third place on the team fundraising leader board. If you are...

Barristers' Clerk to Nigel Bowen Chambers, Sydney

Promoted by Nigel Bowen Chambers

Nigel Bowen Chambers is a floor of barristers comprising 11 senior counsel and 8 junior counsel with busy commercial/equity practices. The Chambers enjoys a...

Legal conference in Dubrovnik, Croatia September 1-8

Promoted by Adriatic Conferences

Adriatic Conferences is pleased to announce Dubrovnik, Croatia as the destination for its conference in September. The conference will take place between 1-8...

Medical Assessor Guidance Note - Number 9

Today, the Motor Accidents Authority of NSW issued Medical Assessor Guidance Note – Number 9, Musculoskeletal System: Upper Extremity Impairment: Assessment of Resection Arthroplasty. View the...

Tonight: Magna Carta, the common law and canapés!

Come to hear Prof Paul Brand, Emeritus Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford speak about Magna Carta in its 800th anniversary tonight at 5.30pm, at Level 21, Law Courts Building. RSVP by Thursday, 14 May...

Bar Council business for April-May 2015

Bar Council met on 23 April and 8 May 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...

Formation of QC working party

At its meeting last night, 14 May 2015, the Bar Council adopted a resolution that it would work towards giving those counsel appointed senior counsel in New South Wales the choice of whether to use...

Barristers' Clerk to Nigel Bowen Chambers, Sydney

Promoted by Nigel Bowen Chambers

Nigel Bowen Chambers is a floor of barristers comprising 11 senior counsel and 8 junior counsel with busy commercial/equity practices. The Chambers enjoys a...

Appointments to the AAT

Attorney General George Brandis QC yesterday announced a number of appointments to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal. Learn more here.

Supreme Court issues new practice note

Chief Justice T F Bathurst AC has issued Practice Note SC Gen 20 - Citation of Authority, which commenced today, 15 May 2015. It applies to the citation of authorities in all proceedings in the...

The Bryan Pape Memorial Prize for Constitutional Law

The University of New England’s School of Law is launching an appeal to raise funds for a prize in honour of former barrister and lecturer Bryan Pape, who made a lasting impact on Australian...

ICAC validation: a message from President Jane Needham SC

The Independent Commission Against Corruption (Validation) Amendment Act 2015 passed both Houses of NSW Parliament and received royal assent last week. The Act was introduced as a result of last...

2015 Budget measures – key legal profession issues

The Law Council of Australia has published an overview for the legal profession of the 2015 Commonwealth Budget. Learn more here.

NSW Bar Half Marathon Team - Only two days to go

The NSW Bar Association's half marathon team of 10 runners is up from sixth place earlier in the the week to third place on the fund raising leader board. Can they make it to second? There are only...

Connect To The International Legal Market

Promoted by LawConnexion

LawConnexion specialises in strategic management and practice development for barristers. We work closely with individual barristers and entire chambers to assist them in...

Bar FC unlucky in the sun

Bar FC suffered its first loss of the season losing narrowly to the Reserve Bank. Perhaps it was the recent drop in interest rates that saw Bar FC giving the Reserve Bank team too much space and...

Next meeting of the Bar Book Club

The Bar Book Club will meet on 16 June 2015 to discuss the biography of Patrick Leigh Fermor, author of A Time of Gifts, The Broken Road and Between the Woods and the Water Amongst Others.

The book...

EDO NSW 30th anniversary dinner

Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia, Chief Justice French, will be the key note speaker at EDO NSW’s 30 anniversary fund raising dinner on Thursday, 25 June 2015 at the Museum of...

Position vacant - barristers' clerk

Promoted by Eleven Wentworth

Eleven Wentworth is one of Sydney’s leading Floors of commercial and public law barristers. The Floor currently consists of 17 Senior Counsel and 19 junior counsel...

ADR and the Barristers Rules: a message from President Jane Needham SC

I have over the last few days received a number of letters, submissions and emails in relation to Rule 15(h) of the New South Wales Barristers Rules. This correspondence arises out of a concern that...