Contents

1. Bar News SUMMER 2021
2. Contents
3. EDITOR’S NOTE
4. PRESIDENT’S COLUMN
5. OPINION
6. OPINION
   1. Defamation Reforms
   2. Use your allusion
   3. Pitfalls in the Legal Profession Uniform Law costs assessment regime
   4. The Fragility of the Rule of Law in Hong Kong
   5. The High Court sends trial judges to Coventry
   6. The need to criminalise hate crimes
   7. What now for the female judiciary of Afghanistan?
7. RECENT DEVELOPMENTS
   1. The scope of the ‘aliens’ power in the Constitution
   2. Apprehended bias and judicial independence
   3. Termination of Clive Palmer’s multi-billion dollar claim against Western Australia
   4. Guidance for Treating Doctor Reports
   5. Publishers of third-party comments
   6. The uncertain boundaries of prosecutorial disclosure
   7. A casual return to contractual orthodoxy?
   8. The significance of re-enactment
   9. The scope of intellectual freedom
8. FEATURES
   1. Sexual harassment reforms and the legal profession
   2. New tool for reporting lawyer sexual harassment in Victoria
   3. Responding to change
   4. Dr Swan on barrister health
   5. The Fall of Kabul
   6. Serving in Afghanistan
   7. The class of lockdown: How the Bar Practice Course went online
   8. Sybil Morrison Lecture: The Honourable Mary Gaudron QC’s Contribution to Law and Jurisprudence
9. NEWS
   1. Anecdote – Covid cat days: Robbie's First Court Appearance
   2. Dog Day Out
10. INTERVIEW
    1. Interview with Justice Dhanji
    2. Belonging: A Novel - Interview with author Dr Anthony Hopkins
    3. Greg James AM QC
11. APPOINTMENTS
12. LEGAL HISTORY
    1. Alexandria Park - a tale of terra nullius
    2. A reflection on Mr Justice Cross
13. PERSONALIA
    1. Trials and tribulations - recollections about a different Bar and a different era
    2. Making a wave
    3. The Hon Dr Frank Roland McGrath AM OBE
14. WELLBEING
    1. Cook’s Institutes: Three Barristers’ Recipes For Enduring Lockdown
15. OBITUARIES
    1. The Honourable Margaret Ackary Stone AO FAAL
    2. His Honour Judge George Richard Rummery QC
    3. The Hon. John Haldan 'Hal' Wootten AC QC
    4. Joseph Anthony Moore
16. REVIEWS
17. BULLFRY
18. ADVOCATUS
19. THE FURIES