Exceptional Speakers

Develop your legal knowledge and practice as you join us at the Intercontinental Adelaide with exceptional speakers to discuss and examine the current issues and challenges across a variety of authoritative and timely topics.

Our selection of eight half-day seminars includes:

• Clean Energy Legislation: Complying with Your New Legal Obligations
• Commercial Litigation: The Essential Toolkit
• Contract Law and Practice
• CPD Compliance: Practical Legal Ethics, Practice Management and Professional Skills – booking fast!
• IP and the Online Space
• Retail and Commercial Leasing
• Workplace Law Update
• Will Drafting and Estate Planning

To view the full program, visit: http://www.legalwiseseminars.com.au/sites/legalwiseseminars.com.au/files/SA_Feb-Mar_Final_0.pdf

As a member of the South Australian Bar Association, Legalwise Seminars are pleased to pass on a 10% discount off the standard registration price.

Our upcoming February 2012 seminars will be your last opportunity with Legalwise Seminars to earn those outstanding CPD units!

Save $108 on Your CPD Compliance

*Register for CPD Compliance: Practical Legal Ethics, Practice Management & Professional Skills on Wednesday, 29 February 2012 and any other seminar, in one transaction, and you will save $108 and pay just $792 instead of $900!

5 Easy Ways to Register

Register today by completing the registration form
(visit: http://www.legalwiseseminars.com.au/sites/legalwiseseminars.com.au/files/SA_Feb-Mar_Final_0.pdf).

Please fax the form to (02) 9387 8711, by mail to PO Box 971, Bondi Junction, NSW 1355. Alternatively, email info@legalwiseseminars.com.au, visit www.legalwiseseminars.com.au or call us on (02) 9387 8133.

A Federal Court brief is provided for preparation. Performances are video-recorded and analysed in small group and one-on-one coaching sessions. The emphasis is on developing each advocate’s strength in addressing, examining-in-chief and cross-examining. People who have attended the course have referred to it as “seriously life-changing”. It is immensely rewarding for barristers wanting to perform at their best.

The coaches are senior Australian judges and senior and junior counsel from Australia, England, South Africa and New Zealand and include:

- Justice James Judd Supreme Court of Victoria
- Justice Glenn Martin Supreme Court of Queensland
- Edwin Glasgow CBE QC Bar of England and Wales
- John Mullins S.C. South African Bar
- Michael Colbran QC Victorian Bar
- Josh Wilson S.C. Victorian Bar
- Will Alstergren Victorian Bar
- Craig Colvin S.C. Western Australian Bar
- Chris Shanahan S.C. Western Australian Bar
- Ian Robertson S.C. South Australian Bar
- Michael Stewart S.C. Queensland Bar
- Raelene Webb QC Northern Territory Bar
- Philip Greenwood S.C. New South Wales Bar
- Les Taylor New Zealand Bar
- Ross Ray QC Victorian Bar
- Julia Baird S.C. New South Wales Bar

The cost for the course is $3,400 (GST inclusive). This cost includes:
• All course materials and readings;
• Course venue, equipment, transcript services and stationery;
• Five nights accommodation (Monday-Friday nights);
• All breakfasts, lunches, pre-dinner drinks and dinners (except Wednesday night);
• Final night off-site dinner including drinks.

For more information, please contact:
Course Registrar
Kelsey Rissman
c/- Level 5 Inns of Court
North Quay Brisbane
Queensland 4001
Fax: (07) 3236 1180
Email: kelsey@qldbar.asn.au
Tel: 07 3238 5108

The conference will mark the 10th Anniversary of the operation of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and discuss the work and impact of the ICC during its first decade. The President and Registrar of the ICC will be attending the conference.

The two key objectives of the Conference are to examine the role and success of the ICC in achieving gender justice, and to analyse the participation of the Asia Pacific region in the ICC regime. The Conference will review the circumstances and reasons for the Asia Pacific’s limited engagement with the ICC, and the key lessons from other regions about how to achieve ratification and full implementation of the Court’s mandate, including in the area of gender justice.

Against the backdrop of the two main themes of gender justice and the Asia Pacific, the Conference will consider the operation of the Rome Statute of the ICC at three distinct levels: within the Court itself, as between states parties, and between the ICC and civil society.

The Justice for All Conference will be held at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, from 13 - 15 February 2012. The three-day conference will include the Australian Human Rights Centre Annual Public Lecture. Speakers participating in the conference to date include the President of the ICC, Judge Sang-Hyun Song; the Registrar of the ICC, Ms Silvana Arbia; ICC scholars; and representatives from government departments and NGOs. The final day of the conference will be dedicated to capacity-building workshops with delegates from the region. The workshop is by invitation only.

The Conference will address questions, including:
• How effective has the ICC been in ensuring that gender justice informs its mandate, practice and procedure?
• What factors explain the limited engagement of states in the Asia Pacific region with the ICC?
• How does advocacy around the ICC fit into broader strategies for achieving gender justice and equality at the global, regional and national level?
• What is the future of the ICC (and similar tribunals) in putting an end to impunity for the perpetrators of crimes and contributing to the prevention of such crimes?

For further information, contact:
Amber Rowe
Australian Human Rights Centre & Internship Placement Coordinator, Faculty of Law
Room 330, Faculty of Law Building
The University of New South Wales
UNSW Sydney NSW 2052, Australia

Phone: +61 (2) 9385 1803
Fax: +61 (2) 9385 1778
Email: ahrcentre@unsw.edu.au & a.rowe@unsw.edu.au
Website: http://www.ahrcentre.org/

More details of the conference can be found on the official conference web site: http://www.ipba2012.org

The IPBA Scholarship Programme was established to honour the memory of M.S. Lin, one of the founders of the IPBA. There are two categories of Scholarship:

1) Young Lawyers under the age of 35 who have less than five years of post-qualification legal experience and who would benefit from attendance at the conference.

2) Lawyers from Developing Countries (Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar, Mongolia and the Pacific Islands) who would not otherwise be able to attend the conference and who would benefit from attendance at the conference.
Preference will be given to those applicants who could not otherwise afford to attend.

The application deadline is October 31, 2011, and the IPBA Scholarship Committee plans to make decisions regarding recipients of the Scholarships by mid-December, 2011.

The IPBA Secretariat
Roppongi Hills North Tower 7F
6-2-31 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0032 Japan
Telephone: 81-3-5786-6796
Facsimile: 81-3-5786-6778
E-Mail: ipba@ipba.org

The event will be held in Hong Kong from 11-13 January 2012 and has an expert line up of international speakers. Additionally, delegates will choose two Specialist Meeting Sessions and be hosted by local law firms and attend our conference functions.

Early Bird registration, saving AUD $500 is only available until 15 August, with all details available on the website – http://www.almaconference.com

Following that hearing the Police Minister, a person whose evidence will be relevant to the trial, made public statements in a press conference outside the Parliament to “totally reject the comments” made.

On 18 May the Premier in Parliament made remarks apparently intended to disparage the barrister and other defence lawyers.

The personal attack on members of our Association is regrettable and unnecessary.

The more significant issue is that it is a fundamental right in our society that accused people may be represented by lawyers who are independent and fearless in the protection of the rights of their clients. This, associated with the presumption of innocence, ensures that guilt or innocence is determined on the evidence and the issues presented to the court, whether it be a judge sitting with a jury, or a judge or magistrate sitting without a jury. It is an aspect of those fundamental rights that the processes and deliberations of the court are open and may be the subject of scrutiny by the public and the media.

However in order to ensure fairness in the conduct of court proceedings, comments to the media which may interfere with or prejudice the proper determination by the court are not countenanced, so as to ensure that the court can decide the case freed from the pressure of interference.

All of this is essential to the rule of law which, unlike the system of government in countries like Libya or Syria, keeps the Executive in check and underpins our democratic freedoms.

The Bar Association is concerned that the conduct of the Police Minister and the Premier on 17 and 18 May has failed to recognise both the fundamental rights of an accused to a fair trial, as well as the role of an independent barrister in protecting those rights and maintaining the rule of law.

Direct personal attacks on barristers for their representation of accused people, particularly when the conduct of the barrister is in accord with that barrister’s duty to the court and the client, are inappropriate.

Whilst the Premier and the Police Minister are expected to deal with political issues, it is not expected that they will politicise, or attempt to politicise, the processes of a criminal trial. To do so runs the risk of undermining the fundamental rights which any accused person enjoys in our society.

If our politicians wish to erode the rule of law and the democratic freedom it embodies, they can do so overtly by legislation with proper scrutiny. If they wish to defame private citizens they should do so out of Parliament and without the shield of privilege so that the citizen can fairly defend themselves in a court of law.

Mark Livesey QC
President,
South Australian Bar Association

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