Inbrief
Tonight: ADR in the Federal Circuit and Family Court in 2022
Webinar - 18 August 2022
Tonight Thursday 18 August, at 5.15 pm, the NSW Bar Associations ADR Committee will present a session on 'ADR in the Federal Circuit and Family Court in 2022'.
The new...
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Message from Federal Court of Australia about digital platforms
Practice Support
The Federal Court uses a range of digital platforms to conduct and livestream matters that are remote or hybrid in nature. Utilising MS Teams, Webex meetings and more recently,...
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2022 Spring Dinner - tickets close tonight
The President & the Bar Council have the pleasure of inviting all members of the New South Wales Bar Association to the 2022 Spring Dinner. Our Guest of Honour will be the Chief Justice of New South...
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Tomorrow: New Barristers Committee Coffee catch up
Practice Support
The NBC’s next coffee catch up for under 5s is tomorrow Wednesday, 17 August 2022 at 9am at the Naked Duck, 60 Martin Place. Our guests are Ingmar Taylor SC (Greenway Chambers)...
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Tonight: Royal Commissions, Social Policy and Multi-skilling: Where Does Counsel Assisting Fit?
Webinar - 16 August 2022
Tonight Tuesday, 16 August 2022 at 5.00 pm, the Inquests and Inquiries Committee are delighted to host The Honourable Ronald Sackville AO QC for a CPD discussion titled...
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Wigs and robes donation for Vanuatu
Philanthropy
The Pacific Legal Network (PLN) provides both legal and advisory support to the Pacific, including pro bono work and donating tangible items like court attire for public practitioners...
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NT Senior Crown Prosecutor Recruitment
Recruitments
The Northern Territory Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions is recruiting for the role of a Senior Crown Prosecutor.
For more information, please click here.
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David Louthean Patten (1932-2022)
Vale
David Patten, former District Court judge, passed away yesterday.
Among his many accomplishments, David Patten served as a District Court judge (acting 1990-92, permanent from 1992) as an...
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Bar FC winning at the right end of the season
The Bar FC continued its winning form today with a 3-1 win over Pendal FC.
With the Hon Peden J officiating and under the watchful eyes of Lo Surdo SC, a fine defensive display meant that Pendal FC...
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Farewell for her Honour Justice Margaret Cleary
Ceremonial Sitting
A ceremonial sitting of the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (Division 1) will be held in Courtroom 1, Nihon University Campus Building, 9 Church Street, Newcastle on...
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Request for barristers to join mooting list
Practice Support
The NSW Bar Association’s mooting subcommittee seeks to facilitate the involvement of the NSW Bar in university mooting competitions, for the mutual benefit of law students and...
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Room for Sale in 2 Selborne Chambers
Practice Support
A recently retired Silk is selling his suite of rooms comprising a large external room together with an adjoining half room suitable for a research assistant/personal...
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Request for barristers to join mooting list
Practice Support
The NSW Bar Association’s mooting subcommittee seeks to facilitate the involvement of the NSW Bar in university mooting competitions, for the mutual benefit of law students and...
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Tonight: The LGBTQI Principles on Inclusiveness
Webinar - 8 August 2022
The Bar Council recently approved the adoption of the New South Wales Bar Association Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning and Intersex (LGBTQI) Principles...
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AIJA Indigenous Youth Justice Conference
The 2022 AIJA Indigenous Youth Justice Conference will be hosted live in Sydney on Saturday, 29 and Sunday, 30 October 2022.
Indigenous justice is one of the AIJA’s strategic priority areas. Since...
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Media Release - New Chief Commissioner and Commissioners appointed to the ICAC
Appointments
NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet has today confirmed the appointment of the Honourable John Hatzistergos AM as Chief Commissioner of the IndependentCommission Against Corruption.
The...
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Media Release - Judicial impartiality critical to procedural fairness
The Law Council of Australia have issued a media release welcoming the recommendations contained in the Australian Law Reform Commission’s report ‘Without Fear or Favour: Judicial Impartiality...
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Farewell for his Honour Judge Rolf Driver
Ceremonial Sitting
A ceremonial sitting of the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (Division 2) will be held in Courtroom 1, Level 21, Law Courts Building on Tuesday, 9 August 2022 at...
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Tonight: Bar Book Club does The Big Switch
Wellbeing
According to the IPCC, humanity has roughly 1000 days in which global greenhouse gas emissions must peak in order for them to be halved by 2030. As EU vice-president Frans Timmermans said...
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Tonight: WBF Ordinary Meeting
Wednesday, 3 August 2022
The Women Barristers Forum will meet via Zoom for an ordinary meeting at 5pm tonight Wednesday, 3 August 2022.
All women barristers are invited to join us for this meeting....
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2022 Forbes Lecture (fresh date) and other events
The Forbes Society is pleased to advise dates for two postponed events:
On Tuesday 9 August at 5.15pm the rescheduled legal history tutorial 'The Mason Court' by Professor Barbara McDonald, Dr Ben...
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Cash Target Rate Increase
The Reserve Bank of Australia’s Board today decided to raise the cash target rate from 1.35% to 1.85 per cent. Accordingly, the rate of interest on unpaid legal costs prescribed by s 195 of the...
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Australian Law Reform Commission Report
The Australian Law Reform Commission report, Without Fear or Favour: Judicial Impartiality and the Law on Bias (Report 138, 2021) was tabled in Parliament by the Attorney-General of Australia, the...
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Tonight: Parental Alienation
Webinar - 2 August 2022
The Family Law Committee presents family law specialist, Neil Jackson to speak about parental alienation tonight Tuesday, 2 August 2022 at 5.15pm.
The concept of parental...
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Tonight: Parental Alienation
Webinar - 2 August 2022
The Family Law Committee presents family law specialist, Neil Jackson to speak about parental alienation tonight Tuesday, 2 August 2022 at 5.15pm.
The concept of parental...
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