FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA
ANNUAL REPORT 2004-2005
APPENDIX 8
JUDGES’ PARTICIPATION IN LEGAL REFORM ACTIVITIES AND INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEES AND CONFERENCES IN 2004-05
The Federal Court hosted a public lecture by Professor Eileen Kaufman in Melbourne on 20 July 2004, entitled The Law as an Engine for Social Change – The Empowerment of Women in India. The Chief Justice chaired the lecture and introduced the speaker.
On 18 September 2004, the Chief Justice attended the John Lehane Memorial Lecture delivered by the Rt Hon the Lord Walker of Gestingthorpe; “Dishonesty and Unconscionable Conduct in Receipt” in the Banco Court, Supreme Court of NSW.
The Federal Court hosted a delegation of Vietnamese judges in Sydney, led by the Chief Justice of Vietnam, Dr. Nguyen Van Hien, in the week beginning 2 September 2005. The Chief Justice welcomed the delegation and gave an overview of the Australian legal system and, generally, the role of the Federal Court.
On 13 September 2004, the Chief Justice presided over the Senior Division final of the Governor-General’s Mooting Competition, held in Court 1 of the Federal Court in Melbourne.
In September 2004, the Chief Justice had meetings and discussions in Paris with:
He delivered a short paper entitled Exposé sur les témoignages des experts dans les tribunaux australiens, at a seminar conducted by a committee convened at the request of the President of the Cour de Cassation to explore aspects of expert evidence in French courts.
The Chief Justice visited the United Nations International Development Organisation, based in Vienna. This organisation has associations with the Washington DC-based Einstein Institute of Science, Health and the Courts (EINSHAC), with which the Federal Court collaborated to produce the very successful Genetics in the Courtroom Conference in Sydney last year.
On Thursday, 11 October 2004, the Chief Justice attended the Magna Carta Lecture delivered by Lord Sainsbury of Turville, United Kingdom Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Science and Innovation at Government House, Melbourne.
The Chief Justice delivered an address about expert evidence by way of opening the Forum on Expert Evidence conducted by the Institute of Chartered Accountants on Friday, 19 October 2004 in Melbourne.
On Friday, 22 October 2004, the Chief Justice delivered a paper at the Centenary Convention of the Australian Industrial Relations Commission on the subject Should the Boilermaker be made Redundant?.
The Chief Justice hosted a moot court session on Thursday, 28 October 2004 for the Victorian Bar Readers in Court 1 of the Federal Court in Melbourne.
On Monday, 22 November 2004, the Chief Justice and Justice Tony North opened by video-link to Sydney, a Federal Court Conference on Assisted Dispute Resolution. Later that day the Chief Justice launched, in the Commonwealth Law Courts in Melbourne, a photographic exhibition entitled Leadership at Warrego, on behalf of the Trust For Young Australians. The following day, students from the Warrego School visited the Chief Justice for a photograph session after which the Chief Justice hosted them at a morning tea at the Court.
On 23 November 2004, the Chief Justice launched Corporations and Transnational Human Rights Litigation, by Dr Sarah Joseph of the Castan Centre for Human Rights at Mahoney’s Gallery, in Melbourne.
On Friday, 10 December 2004, the Chief Justice hosted a farewell function for Mme Noëlle Herrenschmidt, freelance court illustrator of Paris, at the conclusion of her visit to Australia to paint and research for her forthcoming book Three Faces of Justice: Chicago, Paris & Melbourne. The farewell was held in the judges’ Common Room, Commonwealth Law Courts, Melbourne.
The Chief Justice attended a dinner to celebrate the Centenary of the establishment of the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration and the Australian Industrial Registry, in Old Parliament House, Canberra on Monday, 14 February 2005.
On Friday, 11 March 2005 the Chief Justice and the Hon JJ Spigelman, Chief Justice of New South Wales, co-hosted a Reception for the delegates to INSOL 2005 in the Level 17 Conference Room, Law Courts, Sydney.
On Saturday, 19 March 2005 the Chief Justice attended the 11 th meeting of Chief Justices of Asia and the Pacific and attended the 19 th LAWASIA Conference at the Gold Coast on the following day.
On Wednesday, 13 April 2005 the Chief Justice presided over a memorial sitting for the Honourable Justice Richard Ellard Cooper in the No 1 Court of the Commonwealth Law Courts, Brisbane.
The Chief Justice travelled to Jakarta on Tuesday, 19 April 2005 for a meeting with the Chief Justice of Indonesia, Professor Dr Bagir Manan and other members of the Supreme Court of Indonesia to discuss ongoing assistance from the Federal Court of Australia to the Supreme Court of Indonesia, which culminated in the signing of an Annex to the Memorandum of Understanding between the two courts signed in March 2004.
On Wednesday, 27 April 2005, the Chief Justice gave a presentation on aspects of public law concerning national security to students for the degree of Master of Laws at the Melbourne Law School.
The Chief Justice hosted, in the judges’ Common Room in Melbourne on Thursday, 28 April 2005, a luncheon for the Hon Daniel Fatiaki, Chief Justice of Fiji.
On Monday, 23 April 2005 the Chief Justice presided over a memorial sitting for the Honourable Justice Bradley Maxwell Selway in the No 1 Court of the Commonwealth Law Courts, Adelaide.
On Tuesday, 24 May 2005, the Chief Justice launched Federal Discrimination Law at the Commonwealth Law Courts, in Melbourne, published by the Human Rights & Equal Opportunity Commission.
The Chief Justice attended the Sixth Worldwide Common Law Judiciary Conference in Washington DC from 29 May to 3 June 2005. He presented a paper to the Conference about court resources and administration, entitled: Challenges in Resources: Budgets, Facilities, Staff. The Chief Justice travelled to Washington via Ottawa where he met with the Chief Justice and judges of the Federal Court of Canada and gave a presentation about the role of the Federal Court of Australia.
On 9 June 2005, the Chief Justice attended the 30 th Anniversary Dinner of the Australian Law Reform Commission at Darling Harbour, Sydney.
On 12 June 2005 the Chief Justice and the Melbourne judges hosted a luncheon for the Fulbright Symposium on Peace and Human Rights Education and later attended the Fulbright Public Lecture Balancing National Security and Human Rights: Australia and the United States. He also attended the Dean’s Welcome Dinner for the Symposium.
As in previous years, the Chief Justice continued to act as Chairman of the Advisory Committee for Melbourne University’s Juris Doctor degree and as Patron of the Fiat Justitia series of lectures at Monash University. He continued to support and to give lectures to the Bar Readers’ courses in NSW and Victoria.
Justice Ryan presented an overview of the admiralty jurisdiction to an Admiralty Marshals’ Workshop held at the Federal Court in Melbourne in March 2005 which was attended by Federal Court Marshals as well as observers from the Supreme Courts of NSW and Tasmania.
Justice Ryan also addressed the Victorian Branch of MLAANZ in April 2005 on the Arrest of Ships in conjunction with Victorian District Registrar Jamie Wood and the Victoria District Marshal Laurence Kenyon on the role of Admiralty Marshals and the more practical aspects involved in the arrest of ships.
Justice French completed four years of service as President of the Australian Association of Constitutional Law in January 2005. He is a member of the Law Advisory Board of the Faculty of Law at the University of Western Australia and a member of the National Indigenous Cultural Awareness Committee of the Australian Institute of Judicial Administration. He has undertaken the following activities during the reporting period:
Justice Hill is the Challis Lecturer in Taxation (part-time) at the Faculty of Law, University of Sydney (LLM degree) lecturing in Stamp Duties in semester 1 2005 and GST Principles in semester 2. His Honour is Patron of the Tax Law Teachers Association, the Chair of the Faulty Advisory Committee, Faculty of Law, University of Wollongong, a member of the editorial board of e-Journal of Tax Research and Patron of the University of Western Sydney Law Alumni Association. In August 2004 he became a member of the Council of the International Organization for Judicial Training.
Justice Hill presented the following papers and lectures during the reporting year:
Justice Hill attended the 2 nd International Conference on the Training of the Judiciary: Judicial Education in a World of Challenge and Change, Ottawa, Canada, 31 October – 5 November 2004, including a meeting of the Commonwealth Judicial Education Institute.
Justice Heerey is Chair of the Advisory Board for the Graduate Program in Intellectual Property Law at the University of Melbourne and a Board Member of the Arts Law Centre of Australia. During the year his Honour was a Visiting Fellow at the University of Tasmania Law School and gave a series of lectures on the law of patents. His Honour was involved in a workshop on judgment writing conducted in Melbourne by the National Judicial College and the Judicial College of Victoria.
Justice Heerey presented a paper on Expert Evidence at the Conference of the Australian Bar Association held in Florence which paper was subsequently published in the Civil Justice Quarterly (UK).
In July and October 2004, Justice Moore worked in Hanoi with the Supreme People's Court of Vietnam as an international consultant to assist in a project to prepare a bench book for the Vietnamese judiciary. In October 2004, Justice Moore presented a paper on intellectual property (trade marks) to lawyers and academics at a seminar in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, organized by the Ho Chi Minh City Bar Association in conjunction with the US-Vietnam Trade Council Education Forum. Justice Moore provided a commentary, also in October 2004, on a chapter (Capacity to Provide – the Court System) of a draft of the Practitioners Guide for Access to Justice which is part of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Asia/Pacific Rights and Justice Initiative and jointly compiled by the ABA-UNDP International Legal Resource Centre. In May 2005, Justice Moore conducted a three day workshop in Apia, Independent Samoa for the judges of the Samoan Land and Titles Court which is a Court established under the Samoan Constitution to deal with customary land law disputes. The workshop was funded by AusAID.
Justice Branson was invited by the Asia Development Bank to support their judicial education and training Access to Justice Program (AJP) in Pakistan from 19 November to 18 December 2004. The AJP supports a number of institutions and activities to reform and strengthen the justice sector in Pakistan. Justice Branson presented seminars and delivered lectures in Islamabad, Peshawar, Lahore, Quetta and Karachi on topics including 'Principles of Case and Court Management','Successes and Challenges of Commercial Dispute Resolution', 'The Australian Experience of Judicial Independence', 'Developments in Australian Administrative Law' and the 'Art of Judgment Writing'.
Her Honour attended the Constitutional Law Conference in Sydney on 18 February 2005. Her Honour is a Board Member of the International Development Law Organisation and attended the Annual Board meeting in Rome in March 2005.
Justice Lindgren continues to chair the Council of Chief Justices’ Monitoring Committees on the Harmonised Corporations Rules and Harmonised Subpoena Rules, as well as its Discovery Rules Harmonisation Committee. In that capacity, he spoke at the 22 nd AIJA Annual Conference, ‘Proportionality – cost-effective justice’ on ‘Harmonisation of Rules of Court in Australia’ (19 September 2004) and at the College of Law’s Continuing Professional Education, 2005 Mini Intensive Program, on ‘New Harmonised Subpoena Rules’ (31 March 2005).
Over the period 21–23 July 2004, at the invitation of IP Australia, his Honour spoke, and contributed as a panel member, at a workshop in Nadi, Fiji, on the ‘Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights’ organized by the United States Patent and Trademark Office in partnership with the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat.
On 24 August 2004, his Honour commented on a paper ‘Law and the US Judiciary Post the Supreme Court Ruling on Detainees’, delivered by Judge Diarmuid F O’Scannlain, United States Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, at a seminar held by the Constitutional Law Section of the New South Wales Bar Association in association with the Australian Association of Constitutional Law.
On 29 and 30 October, at the 2 nd Annual University of South Australia Trade Practices Workshop, his Honour spoke on ‘The Interface between Intellectual Property and Antitrust: Some Current Issues in Australia’. An edited form of the address was later published at (2005) 16 AIPJ 76 and will published in the September 2005 issue of the Trade Practices Law Journal.
Justice Lindgren spoke at the Australian Centre for Intellectual Property in Agriculture’s Conference in Brisbane, ‘Copyright: New Agendas, New Futures’, on the subject ‘Copyright and Indigenous Communal Moral Rights’ ( 18 February 2005).
In March/April 2005, Justice Lindgren gave two lectures in the Equity Financing course in the University of Sydney’s Master of Laws program, and on 12 May 2005, he gave the opening address at the College of Law’s ‘Specialist Accreditation Business and Property Law Conference’.
The 11th edition of RB Vermeesch & KE Lindgren, Business Law of Australia, Butterworths (2005) was published during the year.
In July 2004, Justice Tamberlin delivered a paper entitled “Federal Court Use of Online Dispute Resolution” to the United Nations Third Annual Forum on Online Dispute Resolution held in Melbourne. His Honour also attended the Admiralty Marshals’ Workshop in March 2005 and presented a paper entitled “The Admiralty Marshal and the Court”.
On 9 September 2004, Justice Sackville delivered a paper entitled ‘Avoiding Tax Avoidance: The Primacy of Part IV’ to the Victorian/Tasmanian Convention of the Australian Institute of Taxation, Launceston. The paper has been published: (2004) 39 Taxation in Australia295.
Justice Sackville delivered the Welcoming Address at the Australian Lawyers and Social Change Conference held by the Australian National University, Canberra, 22 –24 September 2004, a revised version of which is to be published in the Federal Law Review. At the same conference, Justice Sackville delivered a paper on ‘Courts and Social Change’.
On 23 September 2004, Justice Sackville delivered a paper entitled ‘Monopoly versus Freedom of Ideas: the Expansion of Intellectual Property’ to the Australian Centre of Intellectual Property and Agricultural seminar at the Australian National University. The paper has been published: (2005) 16 Australian Intellectual Property Journal 65.
On 17 January 2005, Justice Sackville delivered the Welcoming Address at the conference on ‘Open Content Licensing: Cultivating the Creative Commons’ held at the Queensland University of Technology.
On 31 March 2005, Justice Sackville addressed the Australian Press Council on the topic of ‘The Judiciary and the Media: A Clash of Cultures’. The paper is to be published in the Australian Journalism Review.
On 9 June 2005, Justice Sackville delivered a paper at a conference to celebrate the 30 th anniversary of the Australian Law Reform Commission entitled ‘Law Reform Agencies and Royal Commissions: Toiling in the Same Field?’
In September 2004, Justice Sackville was elected as the Chair of the Judicial Conference of Australia, the representative body for judicial officers in Australia.
A paper prepared by Justice Sackville for the Judicial Conference of Australia, entitled ‘Judicial Appointments: A Discussion Paper’ was published in (2005) 14 Journal of Judicial Administration 117. On 25 January 2005, Justice Sackville made a presentation on ‘The Judicial Conference of Australia – A Progress Report’ at the Supreme and Federal Courts Judges and Masters Conference, Darwin.
Justice Kiefel gave the annual Martin Kriewaldt Memorial Lecture for the Law Society Northern Territory, Alice Springs 3 September 2004 and Darwin 6 September 2004 entitled “English, European and Australian Law: Convergence or Divergence?” which was subsequently published at ((2005) 79 ALJ 220).
On 2 October 2004 Justice Kiefel adjudicated the Grand Final of the Sir Harry Gibbs Moot Competition which was conducted in the Federal Court of Brisbane.
In May 2005 Justice Kiefel was a visiting Judicial Fellow to the Law School of Flinders University, Adelaide. Her Honour gave a public lecture on the work of the Federal Court “The Federal Court of Australia and its contribution to the Federal Civil Justice System”, a staff seminar and attended meetings with staff and students.
In June 2005 Justice Kiefel chaired a session “Engaging the Public and the Media” at the 30 th Anniversary conference of the Australian Law Reform Commission of which she is a member.
Justice Nicholson presented a lecture entitled “Judges and Judging” to the Murdoch University Law Society, a Seminar Series sponsored by Minter Ellison on 3 September2004. He participated in and presented to the joint Australian Institute of Judicial Administration and Federal Court of Australia Self-Represented Litigants Forum on 17 September 2004.
His Honour participated as a panel member in a session on “Litigants in Person” as part of the National Judicial Orientation Programme, organised by the National Judicial College of Australia and the Australian Institute of Judicial Administration, Sydney on 22 October 2004.
His Honour presented a paper to the 11 th Conference of Chief Justices of Asia and the Pacific on “Issues in Court Security”, Gold Coast, Queensland on 22 March 2005 to be published in a forthcoming issue of the Journal of Judicial Administration.
Justice Nicholson addressed and chaired the 19 th LAWASIA Conference in the Self-Represented Litigants session, Gold Coast, Queensland on 23 March 2005.
On 6 May 2005, his Honour hosted a presentation of the “Nicholson Shield” to the winners of the Edith Cowan University, School of Law and Justice inaugural Negotiation Competition.
Justice Nicholson continues to be a member of both the Board and Council of the Australian Institute of Judicial Administration and Chair of the Projects and Research Committee of the AIJA. His Honour is also Secretary of the LAWASIA Judicial Section. He is Deputy Convenor of the Trustees of the Francis Burt Education Centre. Justice Nicholson continues to be a member of the Advisory Board to the Centre for United Nations Management and Accountability, which was reconstituted and the new name of Center for International Accountability of Organizations was adopted on 29 October 2004.
On 11 November 2004, Justice Nicholson accepted an invitation from the Australian Law Reform Commission to become a Foundation Fellow of the newly established Australian Academy of Law and attended the Academy’s inaugural meeting held on 7 June 2005 in Sydney.
Justice Nicholson attended the 22 nd AIJA Annual Conference 2004, 17 – 19 September 2004, Sydney, the 11 th Conference of Chief Justices of Asia and the Pacific, 20 – 24 March 2005, Gold Coast, Queensland, the 19 th LAWASIA Conference, 20 – 24 March 2005, Gold Coast, Queensland and the Australian Law Reform Commission, 30 th Anniversary Symposium, 9 June 2005, Sydney
Justice Finn lectures on Equity at Flinders University, South Australia and lectures on Legal Ethics at Adelaide University, South Australia. His Honour is a Member of the Chair Standing Committee of the University of Melbourne Law School and has been re-appointed a Member of the Third Working Group on UNIDROIT’s Principles of International Commercial Contract.
Justice Finn delivered papers at the Second Biennial Conference on the Law of Obligations, University of Melbourne titled “Good Faith and Fair Dealing and ‘Boats against the Current’” and at the Australian Institute of Administrative Law, Adelaide titled “Public Law and Commerce”. His Honour gave lectures on “Public Law, Government, Commerce and the Public Interest” at the Centre for Public, International and Comparative Law, University of Queensland; and to the South Australian Law Society on “The Crown as a Model Litigant”. His Honour participated in the Statutes project at Australian National University and delivered a paper on “Statutes and the Common Law: The Continuing Story”.
In July 2004, Justice Marshall addressed the Law Society of England and Wales on Australian Labour Law and developments in labour law and the judicial system generally in East Timor.
In January 2005, at the Supreme and Federal Court Judges Conference in Darwin, Justice Marshall delivered a paper entitled “The East-Timorese Judiciary: At the Threshold of Self Sufficiency?” His Honour re-delivered the paper at the “LAWASIA Downunder 2005 Conference” of Chief Justices at the Gold Coast in March 2005. In March 2005, Justice Marshall presided over an international moot held at the same time as the Law-Asia Bicentennial Conference.
In April 2005, Justice Marshall chaired a session on labour law at the Leo Cussen Institute and judged a Deakin University moot final together with Justices Gray and Sundberg.
In May 2005 Justice Marshall addressed staff and students at the Edith Cowan University in Perth about the justice system in East Timor.
In June 2005, Justice Marshall co-chaired plenary sessions on law and justice at Victoria University at a Conference entitled “Co-operating with Timor Leste”.
On 5 October 2004 Justice North delivered an address at Melbourne University Law School to launch “Honour Among Nations – Treaties and Agreements with Indigenous People” edited by Marcia Langton, Maureen Tehan, Lisa Palmer and Kathryn Shain.
Between 18 – 20 December 2004 in Kandy, Sri Lanka, Justice North conducted a workshop on Federalism for the judges of the High Court of Sri Lanka.
On 2 March 2005 Justice North chaired a seminar in the Leo Cussen Institute series on Employment Law and Industrial Relations 2005 entitled “Industrial Relations Reform – The Battle Lines are Drawn”.
Between 21 – 23 April 2005, Justice North attended the Sixth World Conference of the International Association of Refugee Law Judges in Stockholm, Sweden. He presented a paper entitled “Towards Convergence in the Interpretation of the Refugees Convention – A proposal for the establishment of an International Refugee Court”, chaired a session entitled “Legal systems with the asylum process”, and was elected President of the Association.
On 2 June 2005, Justice North addressed the Native Title Representatives Bodies Conference at Coffs Harbour, NSW, on the subject of “The Distortion of the Mediation Process under the Native Title Act”.
On 18 June 2005, Justice North addressed the 13 th Annual Conference of the Australia and New Zealand Society of International Law in Canberra on the subject of “The establishment of an International Refugee Court”.
On 20 June 2005, Justice North addressed a gathering in Melbourne sponsored by the Law Institute of Victoria, the Victorian Bar, and PILCH on World Refugee Day to acknowledge the work of pro bono lawyers in refugee matters in Victoria.
Justice Mansfield is Chair of the Graduate Diploma and Legal Practice Course Committee of the Law Society of South Australia. On 22 July 2004 Justice Mansfield chaired a session for the Lanier Select Copiers State Legal Convention on ‘Native Title’. He presented a paper for the Bar Readers Association on ‘Affidavits and Witness Statements’ on 27 and 29 July 2004. He presented various lectures for the Northern Territory Law Society, Continuing Legal Education Seminars, including ‘Trade Practices – Update on Recent Decisions’ on 20 October 2004, and on 15 June 2005 presented ‘High Court Recent Developments in Administrative Law’. Justice Mansfield also was involved in a series of presentations by the Federal Court to the Northern Territory Law Society in relation to ‘Admiralty Law’ in October 2004.
Justice Mansfield opened the Maritime Law Association of Australia and New Zealand’s 31 st Annual Conference held from 29 September – 1 October 2004, and on opened the Second Annual University of South Australia Trade Practices Conference on 29 October 2005. He also spoke at the launch of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission’s publication of Federal Discrimination Law 2005.
Justice Mansfield attended various conferences during the year including the Judicial Colloquium Conference in October 2004 and the Phoenix Program run by the Federal Court in Canberra from 23 – 27 May 2005. He also attended a Native Title Workshop held in Brisbane on 6 and 7 April 2005 presenting a session on ‘What Works from a Judicial Perspective’.
Justice Emmett is the Challis Lecturer in Roman Law at the University of Sydney and is currently a Deputy President of the Copyright Tribunal. Justice Emmett is Consultant Editor and Contributor to Butterworths Australian Legal Dictionary.
On 11 November 2004, Justice Emmett gave an address entitled ‘The Invisible Constitutional Writ’ at the annual dinner of the Administrative Law Section held by the New South Wales Bar Association.
Justice Emmett participated in the Bar Reading Program organised by the New South Wales Bar Association.
Justice Weinberg has been a part-time Commissioner, Australian Law Reform Commission since 1998. In that capacity he has been a Member of the Division constituted under the Australian Law Reform Commission Act 1996 (Cth) for the purposes of the references on “Review of Part 1B of the Crimes Act 1914 (Cth) and “The Review of the Evidence Act 1995 (Cth)”.
Justice Weinberg was invited to participate in the Justice and Society Seminar under the auspices of the Aspen Institute, held in Aspen, Colorado between 17 and 24 July 2004.
In March 2005 his Honour was appointed an Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Business and Law, Deakin University.
Justice Weinberg attended the Australian Law Reform Commission 30 th Anniversary Symposium: The Promise of Law Reform in Sydney in June 2005. He chaired a session entitled “Law Reform in a Crowded Field”.
Justice Weinberg attended the International Society for Reform of the Criminal Law Conference entitled Modernisation of Criminal Justice Systems Edinburgh between 26 and 30 June 2005.
Justice Weinberg is Deputy President of the Federal Police Disciplinary Tribunal and has been the Chairman of the Leo Cussen Institute of Victoria since October 2000. In that capacity he is invited to speak to the students on a regular basis throughout the year. His Honour has been a Board Member of Monash University Faculty of Law since 1998.
Justice Dowsett is a member of the Council of the National Judicial College of Australia and chairs the Continuing Professional Development Committee of the Queensland Bar Association. In February 2005, his Honour represented the Court at an international conference entitled “Bio Ethics and International Law” sponsored by the French Commission for UNESCO and the International Association for Law, Ethics and Science. The conference considered UNESCO’s proposed International Declaration on Bio Ethics. Justice Dowsett delivered a short paper. In April 2005, his Honour acted as session leader at a workshop sponsored by the National Judicial College of Australia and the Australian Law Reform Commission, at which the operation of the Evidence Act 1995 (Cth) was reviewed.
Justice Kenny is a Board Member of the Centre for International and Public Law, Australian National University; a Board Member of Monash University Law Faculty; an Advisory Board member of the Federal Law Review; a member of the Scholarship Committee of the Menzies Foundation; and Patron of the Australia-Indonesia Legal Development Foundation Inc.
Her Honour is a Part-time Commissioner of Australian Law Reform Commission. Justice Kenny delivered a number of speeches to various bodies, judged moots; and attended symposia and conferences.
Justice Conti presided over mock trials convened by the NSW Bar Association.
Justice Stone is an adjunct Professor Law at the University of New South Wales. Her Honour accepted an invitation to become a Foundation Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law on 10 November 2004. During the year Justice Stone attended the following conferences; The Second Biennial Conference on the Law of Obligations Principle and Policy in Private Law at Melbourne University; the Judicial Colloquium 2004 at the Judicial Conference of Australia; Fusion: The Interaction of Common Law and Equity in Commercial Law and the Constitutional Law Conference 2005 both held at the University of New South Wales Faculty of Law. Her Honour gave the Opening Address at the NSW Young Lawyers Annual Property Law one day seminar, the Keynote Address at the University of NSW Indigenous Pre-Law Program Fundraising Gala Dinner. In February Justice Stone launched and gave the opening speech for the thematic issue of ‘Counter Terrorism Laws’ for the University of New South Wales Law Journal.
During the year Justice Allsop has given lectures on discovery in intellectual property litigation, patent appeals, evidence, expert evidence, federal jurisdiction and statutory interpretation to various organisations including the International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys, the Intellectual Property Society of Australia and New Zealand, officers of the Patents and Trademarks Office and the New South Wales Bar Association. Together with Justices Mansfield and Selway, Justice Allsop presented a two day course to Darwin practitioners on Admiralty jurisdiction. Justice Allsop teaches a post-graduate course in Commercial Maritime Law at the University of Sydney. Justice Allsop attended conferences on maritime law, trade practices and intellectual property conducted by the Maritime Law Association of Australia and New Zealand, the Law Council of Australia, the Intellectual Property Society of Australia and New Zealand and the International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys.
Justice Bennett addressed The Future of Intellectual Property at the LAWASIA Downunder 2005 Conference, Gold Coast, Queensland, chaired a session on Bio-IP and the Law at the AusBiotech Conference in Brisbane, delivered a paper on Whither Patents as part of the Jubilee Lectures for University House at the Australian National University (ANU), and spoke to the Intellectual Property Society of Australia and New Zealand (IPSANZ) and at the Public Law Weekend conference (Centre for International and Public Law) at the ANU.
Her Honour also addressed female law students on a career at the Bar for the NSW Bar Association and attended the Australian Bar Association conference, Judicial Colloquium INSOL and Competition Law conference.
Justice Bennett served on the Advisory Committee to the Australian Law Reform Commission on the Gene Patenting and Human Health Reference. Her Honour continues to be involved in a number of extra-judicial commitments including Pro-Chancellor of the Australian National University, Director of the Sydney Children’s Hospital Foundation, member of the Board of the Centennial Park & Moore Park Trust, member of Chief Executive Women and President of the Australian Academy of Forensic Sciences. Her Honour was also a member of the judging panel for the Australian Veuve Clicquot Award for Business Woman of the Year and is on the organising committee for the meeting in Sydney in 2006 of the International Association of Women Judges.
Justice Bennett was appointed an Officer in the Order of Australia (AO) on Australia Day 2005.
Justice Lander attended the Trade Practices Workshop conducted by the University of South Australia from 29-31 October 2004. On 30 October 2004 His Honour delivered a paper at that Workshop entitled “Civil Penalties under the Trace Practices Act 1974 (Cth): Agreed Penalties”.
Justice Lander attended the State Supreme Courts and Federal Court of Australia Annual Judges’ Conference held in Darwin from 23-27 January 2005.
Justice Lander was invited to speak to students at the University of Adelaide on the subject ‘Preparing for Trial’ in January 2005.
Justice Lander is the Patron of the Flinders Law Students’ Association. In March 2005 His Honour was invited to open the Flinders University Law Careers Fair. In May 2005 Justice Lander took part in judging the grand final of a moot competition at the Flinders Law School.
In May/June 2005 Justice Lander travelled to Honiara in the Solomon Islands to facilitate a three day workshop on ‘Alternate Dispute Resolution’ for members of the Solomon Islands judiciary and magistracy.
Justice Crennan gave the occasional address for the graduation ceremony for law graduates and others at the University of Melbourne on 9 April 2005; published a review entitled ‘Sir William Stawell and the Victorian Constitution’ in (2005) ALJ (page 313); was a member of the University of Melbourne Legislation Committee;
chaired the University of Melbourne Legislation Committee; chaired the University of Melbourne Truganini Scholarship Committee; and is a Member of the Advisory Board for the Graduate Program in Intellectual Property Law, University of Melbourne.
In May 2005 Justice Siopis judged the final of the trial advocacy competition for final year law students of Murdoch University. He also presented a paper in the Advocacy Training Programme of the Law Society of Western Australia in May 2005.