Summer 2021

Read As Flip Book

Editor's Note

Holiday – Celebrate

President's Report

No place for sexual harassment

Opinion

Defamation Reforms
By Parisa Hart
Use your allusion
By Farid Assaf SC
Pitfalls in the Legal Profession Uniform Law costs assessment regime
By Christopher Bevan
The Fragility of the Rule of Law in Hong Kong
By Sean O’Brien
The High Court sends trial judges to Coventry
By Anthony Cheshire SC
The need to criminalise hate crimes
By Mahmud Hawila¹
What now for the female judiciary of Afghanistan?
By Elizabeth Lambert

Recent Developments

The scope of the ‘aliens’ power in the Constitution
By Jackson Wherrett
Apprehended bias and judicial independence
By Parisa Hart
Termination of Clive Palmer’s multi-billion dollar claim against Western Australia
By Clare Langford
Guidance for Treating Doctor Reports
By Hayley Bennett and Alisa Green¹
The uncertain boundaries of prosecutorial disclosure
By Troy Anderson SC
Publishers of third-party comments
By Vincci Chan
A casual return to contractual orthodoxy?
By Chris Parkin
The significance of re-enactment
By Eric Balodis - Crown Prosecutor
The scope of intellectual freedom
By Vanja Bulut

Features

Sexual harassment reforms and the legal profession
By Kate Jenkins and Graeme Edgerton
New tool for reporting lawyer sexual harassment in Victoria
By Fiona McLeay, Victorian Legal Services Board CEO and Commissioner
Responding to change
By Kavita Balendra
Dr Swan on barrister health
By Talitha Fishburn
The Fall of Kabul
By Gray Connolly
Serving in Afghanistan
By David McLure
The class of lockdown: How the Bar Practice Course went online
By Simon Philips and Naomi Wootton
Sybil Morrison Lecture: The Honourable Mary Gaudron QC’s Contribution to Law and Jurisprudence
By Winnie Liu*

News

Anecdote Covid cat days: Robbie's First Court Appearance
Dog Day Out
By Michelle Painter SC.

Interview

Interview with Justice Dhanji
By Kevin Tang and Naomi Wootton
Belonging: A Novel – Interview with author Dr Anthony Hopkins
By Naomi Wootton
Greg James AM QC
By Christine Melis

Appointments

2021 Appointments

Legal History

Alexandria Park – a tale of terra nullius
By David Ash
A reflection on Mr Justice Cross
By John Maconachie

Personalia

Trials and tribulations – recollections about a different Bar and a different era
By Jocelyn Sparks
Making a wave
By Belinda Baker
The Hon Dr Frank Roland McGrath AM OBE
By Rosalind Croucher

Wellbeing

Cook’s Institutes: Three Barristers’ Recipes For Enduring Lockdown

Obituaries

The Honourable Margaret Ackary Stone AO FAAL
His Honour Judge George Richard Rummery QC
The Hon. John Haldan 'Hal' Wootten AC QC
Joseph Anthony Moore

Reviews

Bullfry

Bullfry and lazy, hazy, crazy days of Summer|The appeal was not going well.

Advocatus

Advocatus - Aspiring to Silk during Covid Times

The Furies

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