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PAPERS

2025

20 FEBRUARY 

"SIR GARFIELD BARWICK: A 20th CENTURY SAGA OF LAW AND POLITICS"

Michael Sexton SC, Solicitor General of New South Wales

"A SECRET INTERVIEW WITH SIR GARFIELD BARWICK"

Oliver Jones, Barrister

2024

29 AUGUST

"IN WHAT CIRCUMSTANCES WILL AUSTRALIAN COURTS DEPART FROM THE "BUT FOR" APPROACH TO CAUSATION IN NEGLIGENCE CASES ? "

Alan Sullivan KC 

08 AUGUST

"HOW FRAGILE IS THE LEGAL SYSTEM ? A CENTENARY REFLECTION ON THE 1923 VICTORIAN POLICE STRIKE"

The Hon. Justice Ian Jackman, Federal Court of Australia

29 FEBRUARY

"MOVEABLE CULTURAL HERITAGE: GIVE ME BACK MY MARBLES" 

The Hon Justice Nye Perram, Federal Court of Australia

2015 to 2022

19 MAY 2022

"THE EVOLUTION OF THE ROLE OF THE OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS: THE CHALLENGES OF MEETING EXPECTATIONS OF PUBLIC TRUST"

Shane Drumgold SC, Director of Public Prosecutions ACT 

22 APRIL 2021

"THE COMMON LAW AND INDEPENDENT AUSTRALIAN BRITONS: SOME THOUGHTS FROM AN INTERESTED PARTY"

Prof. Mark Lunney (University of New England)

18 MARCH 2021

"INTEGRITY COMMISSIONS: PURPOSE AND PITFALLS"

Dennis Cowdroy AO, QC (Inaugural Integrity Commissioner,  ACT)

11 NOVEMBER 2019

"DEFAMATION LAW REFORM: WHAT HAVE THE BRITISH EVER DONE FOR US ?"

Ruth McColl AO (former Justice of the New South Wales Court of Appeal)

 27 AUGUST 2019

 "DIRECTOR'S DUTIES AND CLIMATE CHANGE: KEEPING PACE WITH ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES" 

 Lord Sales (Justice of the Supreme Court (UK))

 17 FEBRUARY 2016

"AN AUSTRALIAN REPUBLIC - BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN WHAT IS WISE AND DESIRED"

Professor Anne Twomey,

2011 to 2014

 

10 SEPTEMBER 2014

"THE UNITED KINGDOM - IS THE END NIGH ?"

Roy Martin QC

6 AUGUST 2014

AN ADDRESS ON HUMAN RIGHTS 

The Right Hon Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury, President of the Supreme Court

4 AUGUST 2014

Lehane Lecture, Supreme Court of NSW

The Right Hon Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury, President of the Supreme Court

21 OCTOBER 2013

SINGAPORE - WHERE COMMON LAW AND CONSTITUTIONS MEET

Chief Justice Robert French AC

11 SEPTEMBER 2012

SEX, CELEBRITIES AND SUPER-INJUNCTIONS

Lord Walker of Gestingthorpe

5 SEPTEMBER 2011 (Melbourne) 9 SEPTEMBER 2011 (Sydney)

1361 and ALL THAT

​Lord Judge, Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales

 

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