Appendix 8: Judges' Activities
Federal Court of Australia Annual Report 2013-2014
| CHIEF JUSTICE ALLSOP | |
| 18 July 2013 | Attended the Affinity Intercultural Foundation, 2013 Friendship & Dialogue Iftar Dinner at NSW Parliament House. |
| 22 July | Attended the Australian Institute of Administrative Law Seminar presented by Professor Lorne Sossin, Dean of Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto on The Boundaries of Judicial Review and Justiciability; comparing perspectives from Australia and Canada. |
| 22–23 August | Opened the International Commercial Law and Arbitration Conference at the Federal Court in Sydney. Panellist in Session Three 'From Genesis to Revelation: the origin and scope of the admiralty and maritime jurisdiction in the constitutions of the United States and Australia'. |
| September | Lecturer in Comparative Admiralty & Maritime Law Sydney University. |
| 3 September | Chair of the first seminar in the National Commercial Law Seminar Series entitled 'Current issues in the Interpretation of Federal Legislation'. |
| 18 September | Hosted the Australian Maritime and Transport Arbitration Commission (AMTAC) Annual Address 2013. |
| 19 September | Opened the Maritime Law Association of Australia and New Zealand 40th Annual 2013 Conference at the Australian National Maritime Museum in Sydney. |
| 22 September | Presented a paper entitled IP Remedies and Their Legal and Equitable Origins at the 27th Intellectual Property Society of Australia and New Zealand (IPSANZ) Annual Conference. |
| 24 September | Attended, in Sydney, the live broadcast from Brisbane of the Richard Cooper Memorial Lecture Indigenous sea rights – The Grotius heritage presented by Ms Raelene Webb QC, President of the National Native Title Tribunal. |
| 15 October | Attended the Australian National University (ANU) International Law Society Address in Canberra delivering a speech co-authored with Ms Jasmine Still |
| 21 October | Presented the second seminar in the National Commercial Law Seminar Series Unconscionability and good faith in business transactions at the Federal Court in Melbourne. |
| 29 October | Presented the 2013 Clayton Utz Sydney University International Arbitration Lecture The Authority of the Arbitrator. |
| 8 November | Attended the Family Court Conference in Melbourne and delivered a speech entitled 'Accrued' Federal Jurisdiction and the Family Court. |
| 22 November | Keynote speaker at the 2013 Australian Government Solicitor Constitutional Law Forum dinner delivering a paper entitled Some reflections on the nature of law and power. |
| 26 November | Attended and spoke at a dinner given in his honour by the Tax Bar Association at the Essoign Club, Melbourne. |
| 5 December | Delivered the welcome address at the International Bar Association (IBA), Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (ACICA) and Law Council of Australia Conference on Arbitration. |
| 12 February 2014 | Presented a speech entitled Civility, reason, fairness and justice, and the law at the Great Synagogue Law Service marking the beginning of the 2014 Law Term. |
| 14 February | Attended the 2014 Constitutional Law Conference and dinner. |
| 25 February | Took part in a seminar presented by The Honourable Justice Stephen Rothman AM entitled The Impact of Bugmy and Munda on Sentencing Aboriginal and Other Offenders. |
| 28 March | Presented a joint paper entitled Judicial Support of Arbitration with Justice Croft at the Asia Pacific Regional Arbitration Group 10th Anniversary Conference. |
| 28 March | Attended a ceremony held in Melbourne at which a Memorandum of Guidance between the Federal Court of Australia and the Dubai International Finance Centre Courts was signed by himself, on behalf of the Court, and by Chief Justice Michael Hwang SC, Chief Justice DIFC Courts. Each Chief Justice delivered a short address. |
| 31 March | Attended the launch of the Federal Circuit Court of Australia 'Reconciliation Action Plan'. |
| 15 May | Delivered a Victorian Bar Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Seminar entitled Federal Court of Australia, recent developments and the future. |
| 18–21 May | Attended the American Law Institute Conference in Washington. |
| 23 May | Spoke at the Canadian Federal Court of Appeal and Federal Court Seminar in Maritime Law in Ottawa, Canada. |
| 27 May | Visited and met with judges of the United States Courts for the Second Circuit, New York. |
| 28 May | Visited the United States Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit. Various meetings were held with judges of the Court of Appeals concerning their electronic filing system. |
| 26–27 August 2013 | Justice MARSHALL co-hosted a visit to the Victoria District Registry by members of the Supreme People's Court of Vietnam. |
| 9 September | Appointed an Ambassador for the Wellness and the Law Foundation – a joint initiative of the Law Institute of Victoria and the Victorian Bar to combat depression in the legal profession. |
| 20 September | Participated in the La Trobe Environmental Law Moot, presided over by Preston CJ of the Land and Environment Court of NSW. |
| 14 May 2014 | Addressed the Young Lawyers section of the NSW Law Society on the topic of depression in the practice of law. |
| 26 June | Presided over the Golden Gavel awards for the Victorian Bar. |
| 2013–14 | Justice NORTH continued: |
| 22–23 August 2013 | Justice MANSFIELD was a panellist for the session 'Australian Antitrust Treatment of Cartels: International Intersections and Comparisons' at the International Commercial Law and Arbitration Conference. |
| 23–24 August | Attended the SA Bar Association Annual Conference. |
| 11 September | Co-presented a session entitled Hot Tubbing Expert Witnesses for the Judicial Development Committee of South Australia. |
| 17 September | Presented a session about the Federal Court to the South Australian Bar Reader's Course and Reading Programme. |
| 26 September | Opened the new premises of The Legal Services Commission in South Australia. |
| 9–13 March 2014 | Attended the 21st Pacific Judicial Conference 2014 – 'Equal Access to Justice' in Auckland, New Zealand. |
| 8 May | After dinner speaker at the 40th Anniversary of the Trade Practices Act 1974 at Herbert Smith Freehills in Sydney. |
| 24 May | Chaired the keynote session presented by Justice Steven Rares at the 2014 Competition Law Conference. |
| 2013–14 | Justice DOWSETT continued in his capacities as: |
| 19 July 2013 | Attended a Bar Practice Course address and reception conducted by the Bar Association of Queensland. |
| 22–23 August | Attended the International Commercial Law & Arbitration Conference in Sydney and chaired Session 3 – 'From Genesis to Revelation: The origin and scope of the admiralty and maritime jurisdiction in the constitutions of the United States and Australia'. |
| 27–30 August | As a member of the planning committee, attended the 'Dialogues on Being a Judge Programme' conducted by the NJCA. |
| 12 September | Attended a presentation at the Supreme Court of Queensland by the Honourable Justice Andrew Phang Boon Leong, Judge of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Singapore. |
| 24 September | Attended the TC Beirne School of Law 2013 Richard Cooper Memorial Lecture held at the Commonwealth Law Courts, Brisbane. |
| 25–27 September | As a member of the Programmes Advisory Committee of the NJCA, attended the National Judicial Orientation Programme held in Hobart. Chaired and assisted in presenting Session 13 – 'The Exercise of Discretions'. |
| 11 October | Delivered the eulogy at the funeral of the late the Honourable Justice Bruce McPherson CBE at Ann Street Presbyterian Church, Brisbane. |
| 22 October | In his capacity as a Community Member, attended the Annual General Meeting of the Board of the College of Law in Sydney. |
| 7 November | Attended a dinner function in Brisbane hosted by The Intellectual Property Society of Australia and New Zealand Inc., the guest speaker being the Honourable Justice Philip McMurdo. |
| 7– 9 February 2014 | Attended a NJCA Programmes Advisory Committee meeting at the Australian National University in Canberra attended by the Attorney-General, Senator the Honourable George Brandis QC. Attended the 'Sentencing: From Theory to Practice' conference following the meeting. |
| 27 February | Attended a function to honour newly elected life members of the Bar Association of Queensland, the Honourable Justice Patrick Keane and his Honour Judge Kiernan Dorney QC. |
| 7– 9 March | Chaired and presented a Session–'Development in Court Practice and Procedure Update' at a conference hosted by the Bar Association of Queensland. |
| 23 April | Welcomed guests including the Attorney-General, Senator the Honourable George Brandis QC and the Honourable Justice Patrick Keane of the High Court of Australia, to the official launch, by the Attorney-General, of the Queensland Public Interest Law Clearing House Incorporated Self Representation Service. |
| 8 May | Attended a seminar at the Supreme Court of Queensland, the guest speaker being the Honourable Dyson Heydon AC QC. The seminar was presented by the Bar Association of Queensland and the Queensland University of Technology. |
| 2013–14 | Justice KENNY is: |
| July 2013 | Contributed a chapter Colonies to Dominion, Dominion to Nation in JT Gleeson, JA Watson and RCA Higgins (eds) 'Historical Foundations of Australian Law' (The Federation Press, 2013). |
| 3 September | In conjunction with Professor Goldsworthy and Mr Moshinsky SC, spoke at the National Commercial Law Seminar Series on Current Issues in the Interpretation of Federal Law. |
| October | Participated as a member of the Selection Committee for Menzies Scholarships in Law for the 2014 academic year. |
| 6 November | Gave the address at the Service of Commissioning for Mr Peter Worland, as Executive Director Uniting Care NSW and ACT. |
| 12 November | Attended the launch of the Victorian Bar's programme 'Equality at the Victorian Bar, Making the Quantum Leap' – a response to the Law Council of Australia's National Attrition and Re-engagement Study. |
| 21 February 2014 | Attended and participated in the South African Constitutional Law Seminar at the Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne. |
| 3 March–30 June | Judge in Residence, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne. Addresses to students included: |
| 7 March | With Professor Otto and Dr Genovese, took part in a public conversation for International Women's Day 2014 at the Melbourne Law School. |
| 14 March | Attended a conference on 'Judicial Discretion in Private Law', held in conjunction with the Judicial College of Victoria and the Melbourne Law School, the University of Melbourne. Chaired the session 'Discretionary and taxonomical reasoning'. |
| 26–27 March | Delivered a paper entitled The Growth and Decline of Australian Federal Courts? And chaired the session 'Governor-General and the Republic' at the Melbourne Law School Sir Zelman Cowen Conference. |
| 14 May | Acted as Moot Judge for the Sir Zelman Cowen Mooting Competition. |
| 23 May | Spoke on the value of the Sir Ninian Stephen Menzies Scholarship in International Law at a celebration of the appointment of the scholarship's inaugural scholar. |
| May | Chaired a seminar jointly convened by the University of Melbourne Asian Law Centre and the Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies called Consulting for Reform: State Responses to Constitutional Reform Proposals in Vietnam presented by Dr Bui Ngoc Son. |
| 20 June | Presented a paper Practices of Judging and Judgment at the Association Transnational Law Schools (ATLAS) Agora 2014 hosted by the University of Melbourne Law School. |
| 2013–14 | Justice BENNETT continued to be: Chair of the National Health and Medical Research Council [NHMRC] a member of the Dean of Medicine's Advisory Group of The University of Sydney involved in a number of other judicial and extra-judicial commitments including Arbitrator of the Court of Arbitration for Sport, member of the Law Academic Advisory Committee for the School of Law of The Chinese University of Hong Kong and member of Chief Executive Women. |
| 15 August 2013 | Presented with a lifetime achievement award at the Australasian Women in Business Law Awards. |
| 27– 28 August | Spoke at the 4th Global Forum on Intellectual Property [GFIP] 'The Changing Global Innovation Landscape: Whither IP?' in Singapore on the topic of Views from the Bench on the Evolving Role of the Courts. |
| 22 November | Delivered the keynote address at the Annual Patent Colloquium at the Faculty Centre for Innovation Law and Policy in the University of Toronto, Canada, on the topic: Views from the Top [or When Top Courts decide Patent Cases]. |
| 13 December | Spoke at a graduation ceremony for the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Sydney. |
| February 2014 | Member of the Ad Hoc Division of the Court of Arbitration for Sport at the Winter Olympics in Sochi. |
| April | Attended and participated as a member of the Faculty at the 22nd Annual Conference on Intellectual Property Law & Policy, Fordham University School of Law, New York. Speaker/panellist in various sessions on topics including: Perspectives from IP Pioneers and Patentable Subject Matter. |
| 21 May | Spoke on Styles and effectiveness of argumentation in Court room: Comparative Perspectives; the role of case law under Australian patent law; and the Judicial System for IP Litigation in Australia and Members of the Commonwealth at the Annual IP Teaching Workshop co-hosted by the Supreme People's Court of China and the University of Washington in Shanghai. |
| 16–20 September 2013 | Justice SIOPIS was the 15th Visiting Judicial Fellow at Flinders University Law School. During that time he delivered a public lecture entitled Access to Justice and Lawyers' Ethical Obligations and presented a paper to the law faculty entitled Compensation for Infringements of Human Dignity. |
| 13 November | Chaired an Intellectual Property Seminar for the profession in Western Australia entitled 'Misleading or Deceptive Conduct and Trade Mark Law'. |
| 12 March 2014 | Chaired a seminar entitled 'Discrimination in the Workplace and the New Bullying Regime'. |
| October 2013 | Justice EDMONDS participated on a panel at the Law Council of Australia Taxation Workshop discussing the amendments made to Part IVA of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936. |
| January 2014 | Presented the dinner address at the 26th Annual Conference of the Australasian Tax Teachers' Association entitled, The Politics of Tax: Can it be Disinfected?, subsequently published in the Australia Tax Review, Vol. 42 No. 1. |
| 2013–14 | Justice GREENWOOD is a longstanding Adjunct Professor in the University of Queensland Law School. During the reporting year he was asked by the Head of the TC Beirne School of Law to convene and chair a group of senior lawyers and Judges to formulate a submission to the Review Panel appointed by the Vice Chancellor of the University to conduct a review of the School of Law. He prepared and circulated an extensive written submission as to the future direction for the University of Queensland's School of Law. Chair of an Advisory Committee advising the University of Queensland Head of the Law School, Professor Sarah Derrington, on any matters about which the Head of School needs advice and assistance from the legal profession and Judges. Member of a national appointments panel chaired by the Vice Chancellor, convened to consider international applications for the position of Head of School of the Griffith University Law School. Member of the Board of Griffith University's Key Centre for Law, Governance and Ethics. Member of the Convening Group responsible for organising a conference on governance and ethics in association with the G20 Conference to be held in Brisbane in 2014. Gave a paper to the Queensland Bar Association on approaches to native title proceedings and background issues concerning the conduct of such proceedings; opened the Australasian Intellectual Property Academic Lawyers Association Conference in Brisbane; and gave an address to the University of Queensland Law School on the topic of federal jurisdiction. Representative member for the Federal Court on the Acquisitions Committee of the Library Committee of the Supreme Court of Queensland Library. Member of the Governing Council of Brisbane Boys College, a large independent secondary school in Brisbane. |
| 2 July 2013 | Justice RARES delivered the keynote speech Striking the Modern Balance between Freedom of Contract and Consumer Rights at the Conference of the International Association of Consumer Law held at the University of Sydney. |
| 26 July | Attended the seminar 'Judges and the Academy: Where Theory and Practice Intersect' at Monash University's City Chambers in Melbourne. |
| 2 August | Presented a paper Using the 'Hot Tub' – How Concurrent Expert Evidence Aids Understanding Issues to the Intellectual Property Society of Australia & New Zealand at Gilbert + Tobin Lawyers in Sydney. |
| 7 August | Delivered a speech on the Federal Court's International Arbitration List at the NSW Bar Association's Arbitration Workshop. |
| 15 August | Participated in the NSW Bar Association event 'Judicial Q&A'. |
| 21–23 August | Attended the International Commercial Law and Arbitration Conference hosted by the Federal Court in Sydney and delivered a commentary on 'From Genesis to Revelation: The Origin and Scope of the Admiralty and Maritime Jurisdiction in the Constitutions of the United States and Australia'. |
| 19–20 September | Attended the Maritime Law Association of Australia and New Zealand Conference and gave the FS Dethridge Memorial Address Far from Halcyon Isle: Maritime Liens, Renvoi and Conflicts of Law. |
| 24–25 September | Presented and taught at the National Judicial Orientation Programme. |
| 27 September– | Attended the ComitÉ Maritime International Symposium in Dublin, Ireland and chaired the panel session 'The need for regulation of the liabilities caused by off-shore exploration'. |
| 11–13 October | Attended the Judicial Conference of Australia Colloquium co-presenting a session dealing with concurrent evidence. Elected Vice President of the Judicial Conference of Australia. |
| 1 March 2014 | Presented a talk on Ethical Issues Arising in the Context of Litigation to the New South Wales College of Law Masters programme. |
| 28 March | Attended the seminar 'Judges and the Academy' at the University of Melbourne. |
| 7 April | At the invitation of the Australian Law Reform Commission, participated in a roundtable discussion concerning the Commission's Issues Paper on Serious Invasions of Privacy in the Digital Era. |
| 24 May | Keynote speaker at the Competition Law Conference delivering a paper entitled Competition, Fairness and the Courts. |
| 26 May | Participated in a consultation meeting with the Australian Law Reform Commission about its Native Title Inquiry. |
| 30 May | Chaired and delivered the opening remarks at the Future of Law Reporting in Australia Forum 2014 and the Annual Conference of the Consultative Council of Australian Law Reporting at the High Court of Australia. |
| 13 June | Delivered a speech on The Commercial Consequences of Consumer Protection Legislation at the Commercial Law Association seminar. |
| 17–20 June | Presented and taught at the National Judicial Orientation Programme. |
| 2013–14 | Justice TRACEY was a member of: |
| 23 March | Delivered a paper entitled Unreasonableness before and after Li at the Australian Government Solicitor's Campbell Seminar Series. |
| 28 March | Launched 'Justice in Arms' to mark the 70th Anniversary of the Australian Army Legal Corps. The launch took place at the Law School at the University of Melbourne. |
| 2013–14 | Justice MIDDLETON continues to be: |
| 2–5 July | Attended the Australian Bar Association Conference in Rome. |
| 18 September 2013 & 18 March 2014 | Delivered a paper in conjunction with Mr David O'Callaghan QC to the Victorian Bar Readers' Course on Written Advocacy. |
| 1 May | Presented a lecture at the Australian Catholic University in Melbourne entitled Comparative Law in Practice – A Timor-Leste Experience. |
| 19–21 May | Attended the American Law Institute's 91st Annual Meeting held in Washington DC. |
| 27 May | In conjunction with the Hon. Justice James Judd, Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria, and at the invitation of the Victorian Bar Council, delivered a talk entitled Managing Commercial Litigation from an In-House Counsel Perspective. |
| 2013–14 | Justice GORDON is a member of the Elders and Respected Persons Panel of Tarwirri – The Indigenous Law Students and Lawyers Association of Victoria. |
| 24 October | Delivered a Class Action Seminar 2013 – Current Issues in Shareholder Class Actions. |
| 8 May 2014 | Prepared a reply to Professor Roger Scruton's paper on 'Building and Composing' for The Boston, Melbourne, Oxford, Vancouver Conversazioni on Culture and Society. |
| 22 August | Chaired a session on 'Investor State Arbitrations' at the International Commercial Law and Arbitration Conference. |
| 26 August | Co-hosted a delegation from the Supreme People's Court of Vietnam. |
| 3 February 2014– | With Justice Bromberg, participated in the Indigenous Clerkship Programme in conjunction with the Supreme Court of Victoria and the Victorian Bar. |
| 19 February | Hosted the Chuo Summer School for Japanese students – University of Melbourne. |
| 3 March–26 May | Co-taught 'Statutes in the 21st Century' in the Law Master's programme at the University of Melbourne. |
| 2013–14 | Justice PERRAM contributed to 'Key Issues in Judicial Review' edited by Neil Williams. |
| 18 July | Gave a speech at the ALRC Copyright Inquiry Workshop. |
| 22–23 August | Convened the International Commercial Law and Arbitration Conference with the Law Council of Australia at the Federal Court in Sydney. |
| 29 August | Delivered a speech to the Commonwealth Treasury on tax reform. |
| 8 January 2014 | Attended meetings with Judges and staff of the 2nd Circuit Federal Courts in New York to observe those courts' implementation of an electronic court file system. |
| 3 April and 2 June | Chaired meetings of the ALRC Audit Committee. |
| 16 April | Delivered commentary in Brisbane to the Queensland Bar Association on a paper given by Dr Eva Micheler on capital reductions. |
| 9–13 June | Delivered a speech to Indonesian Supreme Court Judges at a Competition Law Symposium held in Jakarta. |
| 23 August 2013 | Justice FOSTER chaired the session 'Australian Antitrust Treatment of Cartels: International Intersections and Comparisons' at the Federal Court's International Commercial Law and Arbitration Conference. |
| 27 August | Attended the Supreme Court of New South Wales Annual Corporate Law Conference. |
| 24 May | Chaired the session 'A fly in the ointment for the ACCC – implications of the Cement Australia decision for the interpretation of section 46' at the 2014 Competition Law Conference. |
| 2013–14 | Justice BARKER attended meetings as a member of the Committee on Indigenous Justice Issues in Western Australia convened by the Chief Justice of Western Australia. |
| 2 August 2013 | Chaired a Native Title User Group meeting concerning the development of tenure processes in native title proceedings. |
| 19–20 May 2014 | Attended and presented on the topic of oral decision making at the 2014 Administrative Appeals Tribunal National Conference. |
| 13 June | Presented a paper entitled A long and winding road: Issues of proof in native title in the second decade of the 21st century at the Fourth Annual LegalWise Native Title Conference. |
| 2013–14 | Justice KATZMANN continues to be involved in a number of extra-judicial commitments including: |
| 2–5 July 2013 | Attended the Australian Bar Association Conference in Rome. |
| 14 September | Assisted with judging course participants at the inaugural Australian Bar Association Appellate Advocacy Course in Sydney. |
| 28 October | At the invitation of Professor Michael Legg, discussed case management with law students from the University of New South Wales. |
| 14 February 2014 | Attended the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law Constitutional Law Conference. |
| 19 February | Presented a paper on Pleadings and Case Management at the College of Law Judges' Series. |
| 22 March | Attended the Judicial Commission of New South Wales' Ngara Yura Community Visits Programme: Site Visit to the Aboriginal Heritage Office at Northbridge. |
| 5–9 May | Attended the International Association of Women Judges Conference in Arusha, Tanzania. |
| 23 August 2013 | Justice FARRELL was a member of the convening committee for the Federal Court and Law Council of Australia International Commercial Law and Arbitration Conference. |
| 23 August 2013 | Justice MORTIMER attended the International Commercial Law and Arbitration Conference in Sydney. |
| 29 September | Presided on the Monash University International Humanitarian Law Moot. |
| 19 February 2014 | Addressed the first year Juris Doctor students at Melbourne University. |
| 21 February | Attended an expert seminar on South African Constitutional Law for Australian Lawyers at Melbourne Law School. |
| 3 March | Addressed the new Bar Readers in Melbourne. |
| 15 March | Keynote speaker at the Law Council of Australia Immigration Law Conference presenting a paper entitled Judicial Review Developments in Migration Law. |
| 29 April | Keynote speaker at the Campbell Lectures series on 'Procedural Fairness' presented by Australian Government Solicitor (AGS). Delivered a paper entitled the patterns of procedural fairness. |
| 7 May | Keynote speaker at the National Commercial Law Seminar Series titled 'Things every commercial lawyer should know about judicial review'. |
| 12 June | Presided over the semi-final of the International Law Association's 2014 Public International Law Moot at Melbourne University. |
| 2013–14
| Justice PERRY continued as: |
| 25 October 2013 | Attended the Women Lawyers Association of New South Wales Achievement Awards and received the award for Women Advocate of the Year for her work at the Bar before taking judicial appointment. |
| 15 November | Attended the 2013 Public Law Weekend, Administrative Law Conference, Australian National University, and presented a paper entitled The Administrative Review Council report on judicial review: Renaissance of the ADJR Act? |
| 14 February 2014 | Attended the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law Constitutional Law Conference and chaired a session on 'Chapter III of the Constitution and the Kable Doctrine'. |
| 21 February | Attended an Expert Seminar on South African Constitutional Law held by the University of Melbourne and presented a paper on The Role of the Courts under the South African Constitution: An Australian Comparison by way of a commentary on a paper presented by the Hon Dennis Davis, Judge of the High Court of South Africa and President of the Competition Appeal Court. |
| 22 March | Gave the keynote address entitled Tips from the top: effective pre-trial preparation at the New South Wales Young Lawyers CPD conference in Sydney. |
| 29 March | Spoke at the New South Wales Bar Association CPD Conference in Sydney on Effective advocacy: perspectives from the Bench. |
| 5 April | Addressed the women barristers forum on Women at the bar: aspirations and inspirations. |
| 11 April | Attended the official launch of the Hellenic Australian Lawyers Association. |
| 5 May | Presented a lecture in the 'Foundations of Law Guest Lecture Series' held by the Sydney Law School, University of Sydney, entitled The rule of law and judicial independence. |
| 4 June | Attended the National Native Title Conference 2014, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies and presented a paper entitled Characterising native title rights: a desert rose by any other name. |
