Today: Forbes Society – Occasional Lecture Monday, 11 August 2025

11/08/2025

The Forbes Society is pleased to inform members that on Monday, 11 August 2025 Professor Mark Lunney, Junior Vice-President of the Society, will present an occasional lecture at 5.15 pm in Court 13A, Level 13 Law Courts Building. Mark’s title is 'The state of the road was such "as to be a disgrace to the responsible city officers": Immunity for nonfeasance for repair of roads and its challenges to the imperial legal order in the late nineteenth century'.

Mark is an Adjunct Professor in the School of Law at the University of New England, Armidale and a Professor at the Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London. He is a Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Laws, University College London (read bio here).

This is an in person event - if you are unable to attend in person, to receive details for online viewing please register here. The viewing link will be in the emailed confirmation you will receive after registering. No registration is needed to attend in person.

If you have any queries, please email secretariat@forbessociety.org.au.