Federal court of australia

annual report 2001-2002

Appendix 9

Judges’ Participation in International Committees and Conferences 2001-2002

The Chief Justice attended and spoke at the First International Working Conversation on Science, Cases and Issues Involving Human, Environmental and Agricultural Biotechnology in Kona, Hawaii in July 2001. His Honour also attended the Courts’ Second International Working Conversation on Biotechnology Issues, Ottawa, Canada in June 2002, at which he delivered the final keynote address on “Genetics and Justice on the Pacific Rim”. This address was delivered to form a bridge between the Ottawa Conversation and the final Conversation to be held in Australia in 2003 or 2004. The Chief Justice is also the Chair of the Australian Organising Committee for the Third Working Conversation. All three conferences are being organised by the Einstein Institute for Science and the Courts (EINSHAC) based in Washington DC in the United States.

Justice Beaumont is a member of the steering committee of the Pacific Judicial Education Program and a member of the American Law Institute Advisory Committee on its Transnational Civil Procedural Law Project. Justice Beaumont also gave two papers at the South Pacific Judiciary Conference on “Written and Oral Procedures – the Common Law Experience” and “Cooperation between Judiciaries in Transnational Civil and Commercial Matters”.

Justice Wilcox presented a symposium and workshop to draft Class Action Procedures Regulations with the Supreme Court of Indonesia in February 2002.

Justice von Doussa presented a paper on “Treatment of Administrative Disputes” at the 14^th South Pacific Judiciary Conference held in Noumea in September 2001.

Justice Hill participated in a programme for Judicial Educators in Halifax, Nova Scotia in June 2002. His Honour also presented a paper on “Contemporary Tax Practice at the Annual Conference Australasian Tax Teachers Association in Auckland in January 2002.

Justice Heerey was a Judge in Residence from October-December 2001 at University College, Dublin, Ireland, where he delivered a paper on “Expert Evidence: The Australian Experience” to the Copyright Society of Ireland. His Honour delivered two papers to the Asia Pacific Regional Colloquium of the World Intellectual Property Organisation in New Delhi on “Expert Evidence in Intellectual Property Cases” and “Trade Secrets”.

Justice Cooper is a member of the Board of Governors of the International Maritime Organisation World Maritime University, Sweden. His Honour is also a member of the Maritime Law Association of Australia and New Zealand. Justice Cooper chaired a session of the 27^th International Congress on Law and Mental Health in Montreal and is a member of the National Scientific Committee for the 28^th International Congress on Law and Mental Health to be held in Sydney in 2003. His Honour also participated in a seminar in Montreal with the Canadian Maritime Law Association.

Justice Branson is a Board Member of the International Development Law Institute and presented a paper as part of their Judicial Administration and Reform Program in Australia in June 2002. Her Honour also presented a paper on “Judicial Conduct and Ethics” as part of the Judicial Cooperation Project between China and Australia, held at the National Judges’ College in Beijing.

Justices Moore and Tamberlin conducted a three-day conference with visiting judges from the Vietnam Supreme Peoples’ Court.

Justice Lindgren was co-speaker with Justice Heerey at the Asia Pacific Regional Colloquium of the World Intellectual Property Organisation in New Delhi on “Expert Evidence in Intellectual Property Cases”. His Honour participated in a Colloquium on Copyright Administrative Institutions held in Montreal, Canada in October 2001.

Justice Tamberlin delivered the Dethridge Annual address to the Maritime Law Association of Australia and New Zealand in October 2001 entitled “Globalisation – Pressures and Challenges”. His Honour also participated in discussion at the World International Property Organisation and the World Trade Organisation in Geneva.

Justice Sackville was a Visiting Fellow of the Jacob Burns Institute, Benjamin N Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, New York in February 2002. His Honour presented a paper entitled “Legal Protection of Indigenous Culture in Australia” to a conference held at Cardozo School of Law on “Traditional Knowledge, Intellectual Property and Indigenous Culture. His Honour also addressed a Faculty Seminar on the same topic and presented a talk to graduate students on the subject of “Refugee Claims under Australian Law.”

Justice Kiefel presented a paper entitled “The Structure of the Australian Federal System – Some Observations for the European Court of Justice” at the Max Planck Institüt in Hamburg, which has been published in Rabels Zeitschrifi in Germany (66 (2002) 1 RabelsZ).

Justice RD Nicholson is Chair of the International Advisory Board of the International Judicial Academy. His Honour made a report as an International Trial Observer for the International Commission of Jurists in Gibraltar in July 2001.

Justice Finn is a member of the Unidroit Working Group for the preparation of the Second Edition of the Unidroit Principles. His Honour presented a paper “Australia Compared” at the New Zealand Legal Method Seminar in Auckland, New Zealand, and delivered a lecture on “The Common Law in Australia” to the Centre for Comparative Law, University of Rome.

Justice Marshall presented a paper on migration and industrial law, entitled “Migrant Workers (in compliance or not) and their social status” to the International Association of Judges in Spain in September 2001.

Justice Madgwick co-presented a course on Labour Courts’ Adjudication under the auspices of the International Labour Organisation in Vietnam in September 2001.

Justice Merkel conducted an international human rights law class at the City University of New York in August 2001. His Honour attended the Aspen Institute Seminar on Justice and Society in Aspen, Colorado in August 2001.

Justice Emmett attended the First International Working Conversation on Science, Cases and Issues Involving Human, Environmental and Agricultural Biotechnology in Kona, Hawaii in July 2001 and the Courts Second International Working Conversation on Biotechnology Issues, Ottawa, Canada in June 2002, both organised by the Einstein Institute for Science and the Courts.