Winter 2020

Read As Flip Book

Editor's Note

The COVID-19 Special Digital edition

President's Report

The Bar rises to meet the challenges of COVID-19

Opinion

The COVID-19 Crisis
By Anthony Cheshire SC
After COVID-19: marketing the Bar through and after the pandemic
By Penny Thew
Innovation in a pandemic: Reflections from the Great Pause
By Michael Green SC
The profession giving back to the community
By Penny Thew
Report of the Witness Evidence Working Group in the UK
By Mark J Steele SC

Recent Developments

High Court clarifies meaning of ‘officer’ in Australian Securities and Investments Commission v King [2020] HCA 4
By Claire Roberts
Adjournment in the time of the pandemic
By Christina Trahanas
COVID-19 and Detention
By Celia Winnett
The hair dryer and the samurai sword - the impact of COVID-19 on bail determinations
By Chris Taylor
Recovery of non-economic damages for breach of consumer guarantees in Moore v Scenic Tours Pty Ltd [2020] HCA 17
By Parisa Hart reports on
A Significant Possibility that an Innocent Person has been Convicted in Pell v The Queen (2020) 94 ALJR 394, [2020] HCA 12
By Ann Bonnor
Black Lives Matter rally wins last minute appeal in Raul Bassi v Commissioner of Police (NSW) [2020] NSWCA 109
By Benjamin Goodyear

Features

The Impact of COVID-19 on Sentencing
By Damian Beaufils
Courts in the Pandemic – A View from the Bench
By Ruth Higgins SC interviews The Hon Justice Julie Ward, Chief Judge in Equity
The Court of Appeal and the Coronavirus
By Justice AS Bell, President, NSW Court of Appeal
What have we learnt from enforced working from home?
By Jane Needham SC
Viability of Virtual Chambers: Can We? Would We? Should We?
By Emily Graham
Impact of COVID-19 on the Criminal Justice System
By Lloyd Babb SC
COVID-19: the Public Defenders perspective
By Troy Anderson
COVID and Crime – A View from the Private Bar
By Gabrielle Bashir SC and Ann Bonnor
Mercy in the time of COVID-19
By Rory Pettit
How to Conduct an Effective Virtual Arbitration Hearing – Tips from the Battlefield
By Jern-Fei Ng QC, Essex Court Chambers London
Video justice: ten years of progress for courts in eight weeks
By The Hon Justice Nye Perram
Confessions of a Natural Introvert
By Andrew Smith
You Are Not Alone
Fee recovery assistance available to members for fees unpaid after three months
By David Stewart, Member of the Bar Association’s Costs and Fees Committee
No snapback for the Bar: court chiefs confirm some changes will remain post-Covid
By Stephen Ryan
Remote Hearings during the Pandemic
By Adam Hochroth
New Ways of Working: COVID-19’s Silver Lining
By Kylie Nomchong SC and Sarah McCarthy, Wellbeing Committee
Reflections on Litigation in the time of COVID-19
By Robert Sheldon SC
Family Court Hearings by Video
By Justice Jan Stevenson, Family Court of Australia, Sydney Registry
A Personal Reflection on the practice of Family Law during COVID-19
By Claire Cantrall
Conducting Family Law Hearings from Home
By Peter Cummings SC
Settled
By Michelle Swift
Zoom Mediation
By Stephen O’Ryan QC
ADR in the COVID Age – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
By Kavita Balendra
Education Programs in the time of COVID-19
By Robert Hollo SC and Tiffany Wong SC
The NSW Bar & COVID-19
By Melissa Fisher
A New Clerk and a Pandemic
By Jackie Charles
How COVID-19 affected my Practice
By John Fernon SC, ADR Committee
Human Rights during a Global Pandemic
By Naomi Sharp SC and Simeon Beckett, Human Rights Committee Co-Chairs
A Junior's Reflection
By Kayt Hogan
A Reader's Reflection
By Megan Caristo
Maintaining a practice during COVID-19
By Renée Bianchi
Experiences during COVID
By Emily Grahman
COVID-19 Anecdotes
By Katrina Howard SC

History

The wearing of masks during the Spanish Flu
By Dominic Villa SC
The 1918–20 influenza pandemic and the New South Wales legal profession
By Tony Cunneen
Reflections on the Influenza Pandemic of 1919
By Dominic Villa SC

Obituaries

Philip Alan Selth OAM (1949 - 2020)
By Bret Walker SC
Terry John Joseph Willis (27 April 1952 - November 2019)
By Dennis Wheelahan

Reviews

Letter to the Editor

Re: Bar News fakenews

Bullfry

Bullfry in the time of the Virus

Advocatus

It Just takes Practice (Notes)

The Furies

Can you wear trackies to court? What do junior barristers do when they can't tug the leader's gown? Misleading the court with virtual backgrounds?
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