Summer 2020

Read As Flip Book

Editor's Note

Welcome Michael McHugh SC, and thank you Tim Game SC

President's Column

The law, like the traveller, must be ready for the morrow

Opinion

The Winds of Change?
By Pauline Wright (President of the Law Council of Australia), Kylie Nomchong SC and Penny Thew, with contributions from John McKenzie (NSW Legal Services Commissioner)
The problem with fact finding
By Anthony Cheshire SC
Minimising reputational damage arising from ICAC investigations
By Jonathan Hyde
Women in Law – are our fears a barrier to our advancement?
By Vera Culkoff

Recent Developments

Like sands through the hourglass… in Mondelez Australia Pty Ltd v The Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (2020) 381 ALR 601; [2020] HCA 29
By Benjamin Goodyear
Amendments to damages provisions under the Defamation Act 2005 (NSW)
By Parisa Hart
The role of the Family Court in the treatment of gender dysphoric adolescents
By Stephen Tully
What it takes to be a member of ISIS
By Troy Anderson
The defence power, Ch III and service tribunals
By Bharan Narula
Prosecutorial obligations to adduce evidence of a defendant's police interview
By Brett Hatfield
Royal correspondence comprises Commonwealth records in Hocking v Director-General of the National Archives of Australia [2020] HCA 19
By Ahmed Rizk
Determination of damages for a deliberate contravention of s 52 of the TPA in Berry v CCL Secure Pty Limited [2020] HCA 27
By Hayden Fielder

Features

Sir Maurice Byers Lecture 2020: Legal Advice in the Constitutional Maelstrom of the Whitlam Era’
By Anne Twomey
Bar Creatives – Knitting with Michelle Painter SC
By Kavita Balendra
Justice Jane Mathews’ contribution to the Law and Jurisprudence - Sybil Morrison Lecture: 18 August 2020
By Naomi Wootton*
A Strong Woman: Justice Jane Mathews’ Contribution to the Legal Profession - Sybil Morrison Lecture: 18 August 2020
By Aleksandra Ilic
Weave
By Belinda Baker interviews Peggy Dwyer, Chair of Weave Youth and Community Services
A case by any other name
By Therese Catanzariti
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg: the Vägmärken (waypaver)
By Ann Bonnor
Anecdotes

Interview

Interview with Michael Sexton SC - The Solicitor-General’s Path and The Capacity for Dissenting Opinions
By Elizabeth Raper SC
Interview with Richard Beasley
By Gail Furness SC

History

Goldoni at the Venetian Bar
By Sean O’Brien
The man who stayed on: a brief life of Justice William Broome
By Douglas McDonald-Norman
Russell Le Gay Brereton (Dooley) and the War Crimes Trials in Labuan in 1945
By Tony Cunneen
So, you think you know about Roe v Wade
By Geoffrey Watson SC

News

2020 Senior Counsel
50 Years at the NSW Bar – Mr Peter Hennessy SC
By Kevin Tang
How COVID-19 changed the Bar Practice Course forever
By Stephen Ryan
The COVID-Cohort: Reflections from Readers
By Naomi Wootton, interviews with Tereza Seric, Myles Pulsford, Haren Pararajasingham, and Amy Reid
Bar FC 2020
By David Stanton
Unveiling of the Kirby portrait
By Kevin Tang, with an extract from a speech by the Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG

Travel - Advertorial

Discover Australia

Obituaries

Professor Michael Furmston (1933-2020)
By Kevin Tang
The Hon. Trevor Rees Morling QC
By Kevin Tang
The Honourable David Levine AO RFD QC
By Kevin Tang
The Hon David Andrew Ipp AO QC (1938 – 2020)
By The Hon Keith Mason AC QC, Geoffrey Watson SC, Stephen Ipp

Reviews

Poems

D.E.S. (Nathan Li) and My Criminal Record (Barry Collier)

Bullfry

Bullfry goes pro bono

Advocatus

Diary of a Reader: The Bar Practice Course, COVID-edition

The Furies

assigned Section

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