Inbrief
Bar Association Sydney CPD Conference
Registrations are still open for the New South Wales Bar Association Sydney Conference. Early bird pricing closes Friday 20th March.
- Saturday, 28 March: For the program brochure please click here
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Wanted: judges for the UNSW Law Society Advanced Client Interviewing Competition
The UNSW Law Society is searching for volunteers to judge the 2015 Advanced Client Interviewing Competition. We recognize that our students’ success and development of their legal skills is a...
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Workers compensation: Unions NSW wants more benefits, not cuts to premiums
Unions NSW is calling on the NSW Government to return the entire $2.6 billion surplus of the workers compensation scheme in the form of increased benefits for injured workers. This follows an...
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Women Barristers Forum to host three CPD seminars in March
The WBF will be hosting three CPDs in coming weeks. They are:
- 18 March – Fraud Defeasibility and the Torrens Assurance Fund
- 19 March – Insolvency Law
For further information visit the CPD...
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The Magna Carta turns 800
This year marks the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta and like many institutions around the world, the Australian Parliament has planned a series of celebrations. The Magna Carta Committee...
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Out now! Commonwealth Criminal Law, by Troy Anderson
Promoted by Federation Press
This wide-ranging and timely text covers significant areas of Commonwealth criminal law, including corporate crime, social security and tax fraud, drug importation,...
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STEP address: Tips, traps and pitfalls when using expert evidence
Promoted by STEP
The Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP) invites you to an address by Andrew Ross from KordaMentha on "Tips, traps and pitfalls when using expert evidence". The event...
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Tonight in CPD
Tonight a seminar will be held in the Common Room at 5.15pm:"New developments in international commercial and investment treaty arbitration", presented by Luke Nottage and Chester Brown and chaired...
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Australian Lawyers Alliance NSW State Conference
The Australian Lawyers Alliance will hold its NSW State Conference on 27-28 March 2015 at the Fairmont Resort in the beautiful Blue Mountains town of Leura. Learn more here.
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More benefits for injured workers are possible: NSW Government
NSW Minister for Finance and Services Dominic Perrottet has announced that a re-elected Coalition government would conduct a review of the state's workers compensation scheme. According to the...
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STEP address: Tips, traps and pitfalls when using expert evidence
Promoted by STEP
The Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP) invites you to an address by Andrew Ross from KordaMentha on "Tips, traps and pitfalls when using expert evidence". The event...
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Tonight in CPD
Tonight a seminar will be held in the Common Room at 5.15pm:"Paperless practice at The Bar", presented by Philippe Doyle Gray and Stephen Walsh. Chair Bruce McClintock SC. For full details please...
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Next meeting of the Bar Book Club
The next meeting of the Bar Book Club will be held on Tuesday, 17 March 2015 at 6.00pm in the library. Wine and cheese will be served. The book is Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in...
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Burnside AO QC to deliver the Hall Wootten Lecture
Julian Burnside AO QC will deliver the 2015 Annual Hal Wootten Lecture, titled "The bludgeonings of chance", on Monday, 30 March 2015 at 7.00pm in the Law Theatre, UNSW. Learn more here.
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Coming up in CPD in March
To assist members in completing their CPD requirements before the 31 March cut-off date, a number of seminars have been organised to take place in the Common Room at 5.15pm.
Thursday 12 March:"PCC...
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ABA Conference July 2015 - early bird offer extended
The 2015 ABA conference will be held in Washington DC and Boston in July 2015. The early bird offer has been extended until the end of March.
The Washington DC conference, ‘Trends in American...
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Tonight in CPD
A seminar will be held tonight in the Common Room at 5.15pm: "PCC Complaints: how to avoid them", presented by Trish McDonald SC (Ten Selborne), Kate Williams (Eleven Wentworth), and Catherine...
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Compiling a First World War honour roll
The Bar Association has begun a project to compile and prepare an honour roll for barristers and judges who had been barristers, and who served overseas in the First World War. The roll, together...
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Room for sale or licence - Sir Owen Dixon Chambers - Level 64 MLC Centre
Promoted by Sir Owen Dixon Chambers
An internal room is currently available for purchase or licence at Sir Owen Dixon Chambers.
Purchase price on application.
The floor comprises 46 barristers...
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Tonight in CPD - Innovative ways of managing legal costs
A panel session will be held this afternoon in the Common Room at 5.15pm entitled "Innovative ways of managing legal costs". The event is open to in-house counsel and government lawyers, as well as...
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Commemorating the 800th Anniversary of Magna Carta
The Honourable T F Bathurst AC, chief justice of New South Wales invites members to attend "Magna Carta in its Medieval Context", a lecture to be delivered by the Honourable J J Spigelman AC QC...
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Position vacant - external counsel for Tristan da Cunha
Promoted by the Government of Tristan da Cunha
The world’s most remote inhabited island is seeking a barrister to be our Australian pro-bono External Counsel on an ad-hoc basis. Tristan da Cunha...
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Reminder: Federal Court NPA Consultation Forum
Reminder: The Federal Court of Australia’s National Court Framework and Commercial & Corporation NPA Consultation Forum is being held this afternoon at 5.30pm, Court 1 , Level 21, Law Courts...
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Reminder: applications for appointment as crown prosecutor close on 23 March
Attorney General Brad Hazzard is seeking applications from qualified persons for appointment as Crown prosecutors under the Crown Prosecutors Act 1986. For more information, or to obtain a job...
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Women of the Law! The 2015 Salvos Legal Lecture Series
The 2015 Salvos Legal Lecture Series will be held on Saturday, 14 March 2015, between 9.30am and 4.00pm at 140 Elizabeth Street (opposite the Downing Centre). Entitled "Women of the Law!", the...
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