David Louthean Patten (1932-2022)

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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...
Read more >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...
Read more >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...
Read more >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...
Read more >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...
Read more >The Bar Council recently approved the adoption of the New South Wales Bar Association Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning and Intersex (LGBTQI) Principles...
Read more >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...
Read more >NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet has today confirmed the appointment of the Honourable John Hatzistergos AM as Chief Commissioner of the IndependentCommission Against Corruption.
The...
Read more >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...
Read more >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...
Read more >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...
Read more >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.... Read more >
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...
Read more >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...
Read more >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...
Read more >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...
Read more >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...
Read more >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...
Read more >The Family Law Committee presents family law specialist, Neil Jackson to speak about parental alienation tomorrow Tuesday, 2 August 2022 at 5.15pm.
The concept of parental...
Read more >The First Nations Committee welcomes Special Magistrate Anthony Hopkins who will give an outline of the operation of the Galambany Court in the Australian Capital Territory,...
Read more >The NBC’s next coffee catch up for under 5s is Monday, 1 August 2022 at 11am at the Naked Duck, 60 Martin Place. Our special guests are Sue Chrysanthou SC (153 Phillip Chambers),...
Read more >The Commercial Law Section will hold the 2022 Bathurst Lecture in Banco Court on Thursday, 25 August 2022 at 5:15pm. The speaker will be David Gonski AC and the topic is 'Issues...
Read more >Minister for Employee Relations, Damien Tudehope yesterday announced the appointment of Ms Janet McDonald as a new Commissioner of the NSW Industrial Relations Commission (IRC).
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Read more >On 28 July 2022, President Gabrielle Bashir SC appointed Sharyn Hall SC as a NSW Bar Advocate for Change for LGBTQI diversity for a period of two years, and re-appointed Dr Robert Dubler SC as a NSW...
Read more >Bar FC had a very satisfying 2-0 win over BNP Paribas under beautiful sunny skies in the Domain yesterday.
After a couple of early scares, Bar FC dominated most of the first half, capped off by a...
Read more >The 2022 Australian Women Lawyers Conference will be held on Saturday, 6 August 2022 from 9.00am to 5.00pm at UTS, Ultimo campus. Whilst the in-person event is in Brisbane, this will provide an...
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