CPD Audit for all barristers

The Bar Council will audit all barristers CPD compliance as part of practising certificate renewals for 2023/24. All barristers will fill out the CPD Record Form which will be replicated in the...
Read more >The Bar Council will audit all barristers CPD compliance as part of practising certificate renewals for 2023/24. All barristers will fill out the CPD Record Form which will be replicated in the...
Read more >The Supreme Court Practice Note EQ 13 has been reissued here. This concerns adoptions.
The Supreme Court Practice Note EQ 3 has been reissued here. This concerns the Commercial...
Read more >Michael Coleman, previously of 11th Floor Garfield Barwick Chambers, passed away on 22 March 2023. Michael was called to the Bar in 1971 and practised for 46 years before his retirement.
... Read more >A ceremonial sitting to mark the appointment of the Honourable Justice Rebecca Curran to the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (Division 1) will be held in Courtroom 7C,...
Read more >The Chief Justice of New South Wales has released a Vale after the passing of the Hon. Dr John Kennedy McLaughlin AM. Please click here to read the message.
Read more >A ceremonial sitting to mark the appointment of the Honourable Justice Ian Jackman as a Judge of the Federal Court of Australia will be held in Court 1, Level 21, Federal Court of...
Read more >This evening marks the beginning of Ramadan, being the ninth month of the Islamic calendar and the most sacred in Islamic culture. Ramadan begins and ends with the appearance of the crescent moon. It...
Read more >The Hon. Dr John Kennedy McLaughlin AM, former Master in Equity and retired Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales (1992–2010), long time member of 13 Selborne Wentworth...
Read more >John Rowe's funeral will be held at the Camellia Chapel, Macquarie Park Cemetery and Crematorium on Wednesday, 29 March 2023 from 1.30pm.
The wake will follow at the same venue.
Read more >As winter approaches, disadvantaged Australians everywhere experience dire conditions and the necessity for meal services heighten. The Wellbeing Committee are ready to help and in...
Read more >Australian society includes people from different cultures, and the Bar Association is committed to supporting a Bar that reflects and is inclusive of that society’s diverse composition.
... Read more >The International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination is observed annually on 21 March, the day the police in Sharpeville, South Africa, opened fire and killed 69 people at a peaceful...
Read more >The New Barristers Committee’s next coffee catch up for under 5s is at 9.00am on Wednesday, 22 March 2023 at the Naked Duck, 60 Martin Place. The guests are Robert Newlinds SC from Banco Chambers...
Read more >The Succession and Elder Law Committee is pleased to host a CPD seminar presented by Justice Michael Meek and David Liebhold Barrister – Interlocutor,...
Read more >The New Barristers Committee and Education Committee are welcoming a panel consisting of Katherine Richardson SC (Chair), Hayley Bennett and Nicholas Bentley to work...
Read more >John Rowe previously of 9 Windeyer Chambers passed away on 19 March 2023. He was admitted to practise at the Bar in 1970 and recently surpassed his 50 year mark of practising at the Bar.
... Read more >Join Dr Paul Mason on Monday, 20 March 2023 at 5.00pm either online, via Zoom, or in person, in the University Chambers’ Conference Room, for a presentation on...
Read more >The NSW Regional Women Lawyers are holding there inaugural one-day conference in Orange on 24 March 2023. A variety of different topics will be covered at the conference and it coincides with...
Read more >Harmony Week is celebrated annually during the week of the United Nations’ International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
Harmony Week is a time to celebrate Australian...
Read more >The Children’s Court has amended its Practice Note 17 – Designated agencies in Children’s Court care proceedings. These changes clarify the confidentiality and information sharing requirements...
Read more >The Succession and Elder Law Committee is pleased to host a CPD seminar presented by Justice Elisabeth Peden and Ian Davidson SC – Interlocutor, and...
Read more >Join Jock Baird, 8 Windeyer Chambers, and David Smith, 7 Wentworth Selborne, on Thursday, 16 March 2023 at 5.00pm for an in-person seminar in the Bar Association...
Read more >The next Francis Forbes Society for Australian Legal History event is a presentation by Chief Justice Bell: ‘On classic ground’: Martin’s monument and civilisational yearnings in colonial New...
Read more >If you play a musical instrument (particularly strings or brass) and would like to play with an orchestra, members are welcome to join The Lawyers Orchestra Inc.
They welcome players of...
Read more >A ceremonial sitting of a Full Court of the Federal Court of Australia will be held to welcome the Honourable Justice Geoffrey Kennett as a judge of the Federal Court of Australia. The...
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