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The Evidence (Audio and Audio Visual Links) Amendment (Bail Exemptions) Regulation 2019 (NSW) commences today. The object of this Regulation is to ensure that accused...
Read more >The Evidence (Audio and Audio Visual Links) Amendment (Bail Exemptions) Regulation 2019 (NSW) commences today. The object of this Regulation is to ensure that accused...
Read more >Presented by John Eldridge, lecturer, The University of Sydney. Chaired by Greg Tolhurst. This is a lunchtime seminar commencing at 1 pm. Learn more here.
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Read more >Mark Ierace SC will be sworn-in as a judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales at a ceremonial sitting on Thursday, 31 January 2019 at 9.15am in the Banco Court. President Tim Game...
Read more >Following the announcement of the appointment of Mark Ierace SC as a judge of the Supreme Court, the attorney general has appointed Richard Wilson as acting senior public defender from...
Read more >Ms Patricia Henry will be sworn in as a Judge of the Supreme Court of NSW at at 9.15am on Wednesday, 30 January 2019 at Banco Court on Level 13 of the Law Courts Building.
Attorney...
Read more >The Legal Services Council (LSC) has published the Legal Profession Uniform Conduct (Barristers) Amendment (Refusal of Briefs) Rule 2018. The new rule comprises r 101A of the Legal...
Read more >Presented by John Eldridge, lecturer, The University of Sydney. Chaired by Greg Tolhurst. This is a lunchtime seminar commencing at 1 pm. Learn more here.
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Read more >Attorney General Mark Speakman SC has today announced the appointment of Dr Andrew Bell SC, senior vice-president of the Bar Association, to the bench of the Supreme Court and as...
Read more >A swearing in ceremony will be held for Mr Gerard Phillips as a Judge of the District Court of NSW and President of the Workers Compensation Commission at 9am on Wednesday 23 January...
Read more >The District Court have asked us to advise members of the following Swearing-in Ceremony dates for 2019.
Wednesday 23 January 2019
His Honour Judge Gerard Mark Phillips President...
Read more >The annual Bar and Bench v Solicitors Golf Day returns to Manly course on Thursday, 24 January 2018. The event will be the usual Two – ball Stableford. The cost for the day is $170.00...
Read more >Justice Gageler AC Keynote Speaker at 2020 HAL Conference, Greece
The Hellenic Australian Lawyers Association (HAL) is delighted to be hosting a second International Legal Conference in...
Read more >The Australian Bar Association (ABA) will host their biennial international conference in Singapore: Convergence 2019, 11 - 12 July 2019. More information is available here.
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Read more >Miranda Moody and Greg Elks will be sworn-in as magistrates of the Local Court of New South Wales on Monday, 21 January 2019 at 9.00am in courtroom 5.2 of the Downing Centre. Gabrielle...
Read more >Presented by John Eldridge, Lecturer, The University of Sydney. Chaired by Greg Tolhurst. This is a lunchtime seminar commencing at 1 pm. Learn more here.
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Read more >International payments made safe and simple. New year – new savings! Through your benefits program, experience better-than-bank rates when you open an OFX account. Use...
Read more >Bar Council met on 10 May, 24 May, 7 June and 21 June 2018 in the boardroom of the New South Wales Bar Association.
Matters reported elsewhere in In Brief are omitted from these...
Read more >Richard Weinstein SC and Nanette Williams have resigned from their positions on Bar Council as a result of their appointments to the District Court of NSW. In accordance with cl. 12.5.1...
Read more >A conference will be held on Saturday, 6 April 2019 to consider the future of religious freedom in Australia following the report of the Religious Freedom Review, led by former...
Read more >Anytime Fitness Martin Place recently opened at 80 Elizabeth Street and are offering discounted corporate rates for members of the Bar Association who wish to join....
Read more >Premier Gladys Berejiklian has announced that the Hon Justice Margaret Beazley AO will be the next governor of NSW. Her Honour’s appointment will commence in May of this year. Justice Beazley came...
Read more >The 35th Annual Great Bar Boat Race took place in wonderful conditions on Sydney Harbour on 17 December 2018, with blue skies and a good breeze but a bizarre funnel of fog across the...
Read more >The NSW Court of Appeal has just published its latest Decisions of Interest Bulletin on the Court of Appeal website. Learn more here.
Read more >The Law Council of Australia has today published a media release regarding the establishment of a National Public Register of Child Sex Offenders.
A full copy of the...
Read more >The Australian Bar Association (ABA) will host their biennial international conference in Singapore: Convergence 2019, 11 - 12 July 2019. More information is available here.
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