Remembering Katrina Dawson
Friends and family of Katrina Dawson gathered yesterday evening in the Common Room to honour the first three recipients of the Bar Association's Katrina Dawson Award: Claire Palmer, Josie Dempster...
Read more >Friends and family of Katrina Dawson gathered yesterday evening in the Common Room to honour the first three recipients of the Bar Association's Katrina Dawson Award: Claire Palmer, Josie Dempster...
Read more >The Western Australian Bar Association held their Annual General Meeting on 24 October 2018 and the following members were elected to Bar Council for 2018-2019:
President: Stephen Davies SC
Vice...
Read more >Fair Treatment Campaign Event – the long walk to treatment is being held on Friday 2 November at 12.30pm
The NSW Bar Association is a member of the Fair Treatment campaign for drug law reform....
Read more >On Tuesday the 20th of November, Inner City Legal Centre we will be hosting a breakfast at Clayton Utz to honour and remember those who have suffered violence as a result of transphobia. The keynote...
Read more >The Women Barristers Forum invites members to join them for cocktails and canapes at the Verandah Bar Restaurant on Wednesday 7 November from 5.30 - 7.30pm, to celebrate the appointment of...
Read more >Please join Deputy Presidents of the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal and the Commonwealth Administrative Appeals Tribunal as they discuss tips for effective...
Read more >In both parenting and financial litigation in courts exercising family law jurisdiction one (or maybe both) of the parties whose relationship has broken down are simultaneously...
Read more >You are warmly invited to the launch of the book, The Future of Australian Legal Education, by the Hon Justice Margaret Beazley AO, the President of the New South Wales Court of Appeal. The book,...
Read more >The Australian Bar Association (ABA) has published a media release expressing its deep concern regarding recent attacks on Federal Court of Australia judges’ productivity which portrays the process...
Read more >A ceremonial sitting of the Family Court will be held in Courtroom 7C, Level 7, Lionel Bowen Building, 97-99 Goulburn Street, Sydney, at 4:30pm on Thursday, 1 November 2018 to farewell the Honourable...
Read more >ABC TV News featured a story last night on District Court resourcing, featuring comments from President Arthur Moses SC welcoming the appointment of seven additional judges, but also...
Read more >The Australian Association of Women Judges invites you to attend a screening of the movie The Judge, which follows one of the first female judges to serve in an Islamic court of law. It...
Read more >The Hon Malcolm Turnbull, former prime minister of Australia, will join guests at the conference’s black tie dinner on Friday, 16 November. An...
Read more >On Monday, 29 October 2018 the attorney general of New South Wales, the Hon Mark Speakman SC MP, will deliver the 2018 Plunkett Lecture at 5.15 pm in the NSW Bar Association Common...
Read more >The Criminal Procedure Amendment (Pre-Trial) Disclosure Act 2018 commences on Friday, 2 November 2018. The Act gives effect to recommendations of the statutory review of the...
Read more >The High Court Amendment (Constitutional Writs and Other Matters) Rules 2018 will commence on 1 November 2018. Following a review of the provisions in the High Court Rules...
Read more >The Law Council will host two seminars in Sydney on comparative law issues in defamation law reform - on 31 October and 8 November 2018. Speakers include Michael Sexton...
Read more >The Women Barristers Forum invites members to join them for cocktails and canapes at the Verandah Bar Restaurant on Wednesday 7 November from 5.30 - 7.30pm, to celebrate the appointment of...
Read more >President Arthur Moses SC has welcomed today’s announcement by Attorney General Mark Speakman SC of an additional seven permanent judges for the District...
Read more >Ballot papers for the election of the 2019 Bar Council have been mailed to all those eligible to vote. Ballot papers received after 1.00pm on Thursday, 1 November 2018 will not be...
Read more >Please join Deputy Presidents of the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal and the Commonwealth Administrative Appeals Tribunal as they discuss tips for effective...
Read more >Lea Armstrong will be sworn-in as a Supreme Court judge and as president of the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal (NCAT) on Wednesday, 31 October 2018 at **9.15am in the Banco...
Read more >Please join Deputy Presidents of the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal and the Commonwealth Administrative Appeals Tribunal as they...
Read more >The President of the New South Wales Bar Association, Arthur Moses SC, has today supported the president of the Law Society of Tasmania, Will Justo, in...
Read more >LGBTQIA identifying members of the Bar, and allies, are warmly invited to the second social gathering, GayBar, to be held at Martin Place Chambers on 7 December 2018 at 6.00pm.
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