Tomorrow: Bar Book Club

The newly revived Bar Book Club will meet tomorrow, Tuesday, 5 August 2025.
This month’s book is “Prophet Song” by Paul Lynch. Prophet Song won the 2023 Booker Prize.
Details: Tuesday, 5...
Read more >The newly revived Bar Book Club will meet tomorrow, Tuesday, 5 August 2025.
This month’s book is “Prophet Song” by Paul Lynch. Prophet Song won the 2023 Booker Prize.
Details: Tuesday, 5...
Read more >The Bar Association has a partnership with Member Advantage, a leading provider of benefits programs. Bar Association membership entitles you to special savings on shopping, dining,...
Read more >The Wellbeing Committee cordially invites members of the Bar and clerks to a lunchtime social gathering in the NSWBA Common Room on Friday,...
Read more >The Diversity and Equality Committee (DEC) is pleased to invite you to the 2025 Sybil Morrison Lecture. The lecture will be held on Thursday, 14 August 2025...
Read more >The NSW Bar Association's Costs and Fees Committee is pleased to invite you to attend this seminar on ‘Recent developments in costs – gross sum costs...
Read more >This CPD considers the intersection between law and psychology and how research in psychology can be used to improve legal practice. Join speakers Justice...
Read more >Today is National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Children’s Day. The theme for this year is ‘Little Footsteps, Big Future’, which honours the journeys First Nations children take as they...
Read more >Yesterday, the NSW Premier issued a media release which announced that the NSW Government will introduce a bill to parliament next week “to strengthen Working with Children Checks (WWCC) to better...
Read more >The Industrial Relations Commission of New South Wales has advised that the Industrial Court Criminal Practice Note 1 has been amended as of today. Practice Note 32 has also been amended.
Read more >At its meeting on 24 July 2025, the Bar Council resolved by acclamation to award life membership of the New South Wales Bar Association to Stephen Odgers SC for exceptional service to the Bar...
Read more >The Hon Chief Justice of Australia, Stephen Gageler AC, will launch Gerard Brennan's Articles and Speeches (Connor Court Publishing, 2025) at Banco Court, Level 13, Law Courts Building, 184 Phillip...
Read more >The Coronial Inquests Pilot Program (CIPP) has commenced in the NSW Bar Association’s Legal Assistance Referral Scheme (LARS). The pilot will run for 12 months.
The CIPP involves a new referral...
Read more >The NSW Bar Association is hosting a First Nations Programs Information & Networking Evening on Wednesday, 13 August 2025 in the Association’s Common Room (Selborne Chambers, Sub Basement Level,...
Read more >The Federal Court of Australia invites members to attend the Court’s annual Employment and Industrial Law Seminar: Sharpening the tools: Developments in emerging and familiar areas of employment...
Read more >Sir Anthony Mason Chambers – Room for licence or sale
External barrister’s room now available for sale or licence, offering views to Hyde Park and the Eastern Suburbs. Spanning a generous 18.48...
Read more >A rare opportunity has arisen to take a lease in the much sought after Lockhart Chambers. The space is located behind the foyer on the Ground Floor of Lockhart Chambers and will become available for...
Read more >Josh’s dad died from a rare blood cancer in 2018, a tragedy that no one (and no family) should ever have to suffer. He is therefore raising money to help Cure Cancer by running the City2Surf on...
Read more >This CPD will focus on a critical issue which all barristers should be aware of for their own wellbeing - moral injury. Relevant to all barristers, no matter...
Read more >All Class B members should now have received an email with a link to the online system to renew their membership for 2025/2026. Your login details can be obtained by emailing reception@nswbar.asn.au.... Read more >
To assist barristers with childcare responsibilities to manage court or other commitments when children are ill or regular care arrangements are unavailable, the Bar Association has created an...
Read more >The conference is timed to mark the tenth anniversary of the Redress and Civil Litigation Report (2015) of the Australian Royal Commission Into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. It...
Read more >The NSW Attorney General is seeking applications for three Public Defenders under the Public Defenders Act 1995, to be based in:
The ABA Advanced Trial Advocacy Intensive is taking place over 19-23 January 2026 in Brisbane. This is a residential five-day course that aims to develop barristers' skills, such as addressing,...
Read more >The ABA Annual Conference is taking place on 29 August at the W Sydney hotel. This year's theme is "Crossroads 2025: Litigating Matters of Public Interest".
The program includes an opening address...
Read more >A welcome ceremony to mark the appointment of Justice Bennett to the Supreme Court of New South Wales will be held on Tuesday 26 August 2025 in the Banco Court, on level 13, at 9.15am. The ceremony...
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