Law Student Gazette

1. Victorian Association of Dispute Resolution, CPD Event, Geoff Browne: Overview of the ADR jurisdiction of the Small Business Commissioner

Date: Tuesday 10 March, 2015
Time: 5.45pm for 6.15pm start
Location: Coopers Inn (2nd floor), cnr Exhibition and Little Lonsdale Streets
Cost: Free to current VADR members, $20 for non-members. Finger food is provided. Drinks are available at the bar.

You are invited to a VADR CPD presentation where the Small Business Commissioner, Geoff Browne, will speak about the ADR jurisdiction of his Office.

Topics covered will include activity levels and outcomes, the impact of recent changes to legislation, and the policy commitments of the new Victorian Government.  Geoff will also discuss the approach used for mediator appointment and comment on mediation styles as well as the Mediation Agreement used for all mediations conducted through his Office, and issues that have emerged. Some case studies of mediation outcomes and issues arising will also be presented.

RSVP: By Thursday 5 March by emailing admin@vadr.asn or president@vadr.asn.au

For more information download the event flyer

1. Seminar: Australia – A vital commercial hub in the Asia Pacific region

Date: Wednesday 25 February 2015
Time: 6.00-7.00pm
Location: Monash University Law Chambers, 555 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne
Cost: Free
RSVP: By 20 February 2015 (unless sold old prior) emailing clars@monash.edu

The inaugural seminar involving the Federal Court of Australia, the Supreme Court of Victoria, Centre for Commercial Law and Regulatory Studies, Monash Law Faculty, Victorian Bar, CommBar, Law Institute of Victoria and Judicial College of Victoria.

This seminar will look at the importance of Australia as a major legal centre for commercial disputes in the Asia Pacific region and the challenges for Australian commercial courts and arbitral institutions in a regional justice system.

For more information

• Visit the event page
• Download the event flyer.

1. Seminar: Australia – A vital commercial hub in the Asia Pacific region

Date: Wednesday 25 February 2015
Time: 6.00-7.00pm
Location: Monash University Law Chambers, 555 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne
Cost: Free
RSVP: By 20 February 2015 (unless sold old prior) emailing clars@monash.edu

The inaugural seminar involving the Federal Court of Australia, the Supreme Court of Victoria, Centre for Commercial Law and Regulatory Studies, Monash Law Faculty, Victorian Bar, CommBar, Law Institute of Victoria and Judicial College of Victoria.

This seminar will look at the importance of Australia as a major legal centre for commercial disputes in the Asia Pacific region and the challenges for Australian commercial courts and arbitral institutions in a regional justice system.

For more information

• Visit the event page
• Download the event flyer.

2. Workshop: Fair Food? Overcoming Regulatory Barriers

Date: Tuesday 24 February 2015
Time: 10:15am – 2:30pm
Location: Monash University Law Chambers, 555 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne
Cost: $55.00 (includes GST)
RSVP: By 19 February 2015

The Centre for Commercial Law and Regulatory Studies is holding a workshop with the Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance and Victorian Farmers Market Association, to look at how to improve food regulation and access to fair local food.

The workshop is facilitated by Professor Christine Parker, researcher in regulatory studies and food politics, from the Centre for Commercial Law and Regulatory Studies (CLARS), Monash Law Faculty. It is co-sponsored by the Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance (AFSA) and the Victorian Farmers Market Association.

For more information and registration details:

• Visit the event page
• Download the event flyer.

1. 2015 Osgoode Forum – “Sex, Drugs & Rock ‘n’ Roll: Subversive Sites in the Law”

Date: Friday 15 to Saturday 16 May, 2015 (conference); Friday 15 May, 2014 (Dinner and Reception)

Time: 9am – 5pm (conference); 7pm-10pm (Dinner and Reception)

Venue: Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Cost: $25 – un/under-employed; $50 – Employed (self-declared); Includes conference, dinner and reception

For further information please see the website

2. Commercial CPD Seminar – Arbitration Rules

The new Supreme Court (Chapter II Arbitration) Rules 2014 are scheduled to commence on Monday 1 December, 2014. The new Rules can be accessed online.

Chair

Justice Clyde Croft, Supreme Court of Victoria

Presenters

Martin Scott QC, Victorian Bar
Bronwyn Lincoln, Herbert Smith Freehills

Event details

Date: Tuesday 16 December, 2014
Time: 5:15pm – 6:15pm
Venue: Monash University Law Chambers, 555 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne Victoria
RSVP: Friday 12 December, 2014 (unless sold out prior) law-marketing@monash.edu or (03) 9905 2630

For further information please see the flyer

3. The Principle of Legality in Australian and New Zealand Law

A one-day conference bringing together judges, practitioners and scholars at the Victoria State Library, to consider, what the principle of legality means, when and why antipodean courts invoke it, its impact on drafting legislation and where it is leading our public law.

Event details

Date: Friday 20 February 2015
Venue: Victoria State Library, Conference Centre, 179a La Trobe Street, Melbourne
Time: 9am – 5pm
Registration: Full $175, Concession/ Student $100

Registration includes morning & afternoon tea/ lunch & post conference drinks.

Enquiries: lawevents@deakin.edu.au

1. 2015 Osgoode Forum – “Sex, Drugs & Rock ‘n’ Roll: Subversive Sites in the Law”

Date: Friday 15 to Saturday 16 May, 2015 (conference); Friday 15 May, 2014 (Dinner and Reception)

Time: 9am – 5pm (conference); 7pm-10pm (Dinner and Reception)

Venue: Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Cost: $25 – un/under-employed; $50 – Employed (self-declared); Includes conference, dinner and reception

For further information please see the website

2. Commercial CPD Seminar – Arbitration Rules

The new Supreme Court (Chapter II Arbitration) Rules 2014 are scheduled to commence on Monday 1 December, 2014. The new Rules can be accessed online.

Chair

Justice Clyde Croft, Supreme Court of Victoria

Presenters

Martin Scott QC, Victorian Bar
Bronwyn Lincoln, Herbert Smith Freehills

Event details

Date: Tuesday 16 December, 2014
Time: 5:15pm – 6:15pm
Venue: Monash University Law Chambers, 555 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne Victoria
RSVP: Friday 12 December, 2014 (unless sold out prior) law-marketing@monash.edu or (03) 9905 2630

For further information please see the flyer

3. The Principle of Legality in Australian and New Zealand Law

A one-day conference bringing together judges, practitioners and scholars at the Victoria State Library, to consider, what the principle of legality means, when and why antipodean courts invoke it, its impact on drafting legislation and where it is leading our public law.

Event details

Date: Friday 20 February 2015
Venue: Victoria State Library, Conference Centre, 179a La Trobe Street, Melbourne
Time: 9am – 5pm
Registration: Full $175, Concession/ Student $100

Registration includes morning & afternoon tea/ lunch & post conference drinks.

Enquiries: lawevents@deakin.edu.au

1. 2015 Osgoode Forum – “Sex, Drugs & Rock ‘n’ Roll: Subversive Sites in the Law”

Date: Friday 15 to Saturday 16 May, 2015 (conference); Friday 15 May, 2014 (Dinner and Reception)

Time: 9am – 5pm (conference); 7pm-10pm (Dinner and Reception)

Venue: Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Cost: $25 – un/under-employed; $50 – Employed (self-declared); Includes conference, dinner and reception

For further information please see the website

2. Commercial CPD Seminar – Arbitration Rules

The new Supreme Court (Chapter II Arbitration) Rules 2014 are scheduled to commence on Monday 1 December, 2014. The new Rules can be accessed online.

Chair

Justice Clyde Croft, Supreme Court of Victoria

Presenters

Martin Scott QC, Victorian Bar
Bronwyn Lincoln, Herbert Smith Freehills

Event details

Date: Tuesday 16 December, 2014
Time: 5:15pm – 6:15pm
Venue: Monash University Law Chambers, 555 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne Victoria
RSVP: Friday 12 December, 2014 (unless sold out prior) law-marketing@monash.edu or (03) 9905 2630

For further information please see the flyer

3. The Principle of Legality in Australian and New Zealand Law

A one-day conference bringing together judges, practitioners and scholars at the Victoria State Library, to consider, what the principle of legality means, when and why antipodean courts invoke it, its impact on drafting legislation and where it is leading our public law.

Event details

Date: Friday 20 February 2015
Venue: Victoria State Library, Conference Centre, 179a La Trobe Street, Melbourne
Time: 9am – 5pm
Registration: Full $175, Concession/ Student $100

Registration includes morning & afternoon tea/ lunch & post conference drinks.

Enquiries: lawevents@deakin.edu.au

1. 2015 Osgoode Forum – “Sex, Drugs & Rock ‘n’ Roll: Subversive Sites in the Law”

Date: Friday 15 to Saturday 16 May, 2015 (conference); Friday 15 May, 2014 (Dinner and Reception)

Time: 9am – 5pm (conference); 7pm-10pm (Dinner and Reception)

Venue: Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Cost: $25 – un/under-employed; $50 – Employed (self-declared); Includes conference, dinner and reception

For further information please see the website

2. Book Launch – “Human Rights in closed environments”

By Bronwyn Naylor, Julie Debeljak & Anita Mackay

La Trobe and Monash University present the launch of Human Rights in Closed Environments edited by Bronwyn Naylor, Julie Debeljak and Anita Mackay and published by Federation Press.

Professor Gillian Triggs, President of the Australian Human Rights Commission will officially launch the book.

Human Rights in Closed Environments stems from an Australian Research Council Linkage grant examining the implementation of human rights in six specific Australian ‘closed environments’ – prisons; police cells; forensic psychiatric institutions; closed mental health units; closed disability units; and immigration detention centres.

The publication highlights rights concerns common across the different types of environments, such as the vulnerability of persons held in detention the tension between respect for rights and safety concerns, and securing a human rights culture in the context of significant power imbalances. It also draws comparisons between the same closed environments in different jurisdictions, examining the ‘value add’ of formal rights instruments.

Finally, it considers the role of external monitoring mechanisms (such as, Ombudsmen and Human Rights Commissions) in securing rights respecting environments, in the context of Australia signing, but not yet ratifying, the Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture (OPCAT).

Date: Tuesday 25 November, 2014
Time: 5:30pm (for 6pm start)
Venue: La Trobe city campus, Floor 20, 360 Collins Street Melbourne
Cost: Free
RSVP: Tuesday 18 November, 2014, latrobe.edu.au/business/ human-rights-book

For further information please see the website

3. Commercial CPD Seminar – Arbitration Rules

The new Supreme Court (Chapter II Arbitration) Rules 2014 are scheduled to commence on Monday 1 December, 2014. The new Rules can be accessed online.

Chair

Justice Clyde Croft, Supreme Court of Victoria

Presenters

Martin Scott QC, Victorian Bar
Bronwyn Lincoln, Herbert Smith Freehills

Event details

Date: Tuesday 16 December, 2014
Time: 5:15pm – 6:15pm
Venue: Monash University Law Chambers, 555 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne Victoria
RSVP: Friday 12 December, 2014 (unless sold out prior) law-marketing@monash.edu or (03) 9905 2630

For further information please see the flyer

1. Book Launch – “Human Rights in closed environments”

By Bronwyn Naylor, Julie Debeljak & Anita Mackay

La Trobe and Monash University present the launch of Human Rights in Closed Environments edited by Bronwyn Naylor, Julie Debeljak and Anita Mackay and published by Federation Press.

Professor Gillian Triggs, President of the Australian Human Rights Commission will officially launch the book.

Human Rights in Closed Environments stems from an Australian Research Council Linkage grant examining the implementation of human rights in six specific Australian ‘closed environments’ – prisons; police cells; forensic psychiatric institutions; closed mental health units; closed disability units; and immigration detention centres.

The publication highlights rights concerns common across the different types of environments, such as the vulnerability of persons held in detention the tension between respect for rights and safety concerns, and securing a human rights culture in the context of significant power imbalances. It also draws comparisons between the same closed environments in different jurisdictions, examining the ‘value add’ of formal rights instruments.

Finally, it considers the role of external monitoring mechanisms (such as, Ombudsmen and Human Rights Commissions) in securing rights respecting environments, in the context of Australia signing, but not yet ratifying, the Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture (OPCAT).

Date: Tuesday 25 November, 2014
Time: 5:30pm (for 6pm start)
Venue: La Trobe city campus, Floor 20, 360 Collins Street Melbourne
Cost: Free
RSVP: Tuesday 18 November, 2014, latrobe.edu.au/business/ human-rights-book

For further information please see the website

1. Book Launch – “Human Rights in closed environments”

By Bronwyn Naylor, Julie Debeljak & Anita Mackay

La Trobe and Monash University present the launch of Human Rights in Closed Environments edited by Bronwyn Naylor, Julie Debeljak and Anita Mackay and published by Federation Press.

Professor Gillian Triggs, President of the Australian Human Rights Commission will officially launch the book.

Human Rights in Closed Environments stems from an Australian Research Council Linkage grant examining the implementation of human rights in six specific Australian ‘closed environments’ – prisons; police cells; forensic psychiatric institutions; closed mental health units; closed disability units; and immigration detention centres.

The publication highlights rights concerns common across the different types of environments, such as the vulnerability of persons held in detention the tension between respect for rights and safety concerns, and securing a human rights culture in the context of significant power imbalances. It also draws comparisons between the same closed environments in different jurisdictions, examining the ‘value add’ of formal rights instruments.

Finally, it considers the role of external monitoring mechanisms (such as, Ombudsmen and Human Rights Commissions) in securing rights respecting environments, in the context of Australia signing, but not yet ratifying, the Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture (OPCAT).

Date: Tuesday 25 November, 2014
Time: 5:30pm (for 6pm start)
Venue: La Trobe city campus, Floor 20, 360 Collins Street Melbourne
Cost: Free
RSVP: Tuesday 18 November, 2014, latrobe.edu.au/business/ human-rights-book

For further information please see the website

1. Book Launch – “The Good Lawyer”

By Prof Adrian Evans

To be launched by Mr Michael McGarvie, Legal Services Commissioner and CEO, Legal Services Board Victoria.

“The Good Lawyer” explores the ethical and professional challenges that confront people who work in the law – or are considering it – and offers principled and pragmatic advice about how to overcome such challenges.

This book takes a holistic approach that begins with your innate humanity. It urges you to examine your motives for seeking a career in law, to foster a deep understanding of what it means to be ‘good’, and to draw on your virtue and judgement when difficult choices arise, rather than relying on compliance with rules or codes.

The Good Lawyer analyses four important areas of legal ethics – truth and deception, professional secrets, conflicts of interest, and professional competence – and explains the choices that are available when determining a course of moral action. It links theory to practice, and includes many examples, diagrams and source documents to illustrate ethical concepts, scenarios and decision making.

Date: Wednesday, 12 November 2014
Time: 5.30pm (for 6pm start) – 7pm
Venue: Monash University Law Chambers, 555 Lonsdale St Melbourne
RSVP: Wednesday,5 November to law-marketing@monash.edu or 03 9905 2630 (for catering purposes)

Further information available on the website

2. Book Launch – “Human Rights in closed environments”

By Bronwyn Naylor, Julie Debeljak & Anita Mackay

La Trobe and Monash University present the launch of Human Rights in Closed Environments edited by Bronwyn Naylor, Julie Debeljak and Anita Mackay and published by Federation Press.

Professor Gillian Triggs, President of the Australian Human Rights Commission will officially launch the book.

Human Rights in Closed Environments stems from an Australian Research Council Linkage grant examining the implementation of human rights in six specific Australian ‘closed environments’ – prisons; police cells; forensic psychiatric institutions; closed mental health units; closed disability units; and immigration detention centres.

The publication highlights rights concerns common across the different types of environments, such as the vulnerability of persons held in detention the tension between respect for rights and safety concerns, and securing a human rights culture in the context of significant power imbalances. It also draws comparisons between the same closed environments in different jurisdictions, examining the ‘value add’ of formal rights instruments.

Finally, it considers the role of external monitoring mechanisms (such as, Ombudsmen and Human Rights Commissions) in securing rights respecting environments, in the context of Australia signing, but not yet ratifying, the Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture (OPCAT).

Date: Tuesday 25 November, 2014
Time: 5:30pm (for 6pm start)
Venue: La Trobe city campus, Floor 20, 360 Collins Street Melbourne
Cost: Free
RSVP: Tuesday 18 November, 2014, latrobe.edu.au/business/ human-rights-book

For further information please see the website

3. Public Lecture: “IP in Transition: desperately seeking the Big Picture”

Presented by Melbourne Law School in conjunction with the Institute of Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys of Australia

Date: Wednesday 12 November
Time: 6:15-7.45pm
Venue: Melbourne Law School, 185 Pelham Street, Carlton

For further information please see the flyer