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In Brief Issue #1068
5Aug
There are a number of Expressions of Interest open at the moment for the consideration of members:
- ABA committees: EOI closes today.
- VLSB - director: EOI to be nominated closes on Friday 12 August 2022
- The Council of Law Reporting in Victoria - two positions. EOI closes on 19 August 2022
Details for each position and the requirements of the EOIs are set out in the respective notices below. I encourage all interested members to apply.
The Victorian Law Foundation is hosting a webinar next Wednesday: A Conversation with Chief Justice Anne Ferguson: Patience, persistence and change; reflecting on how the lessons of the recent past will shape the future of the legal profession and justice system. Registration is available here.
On Tuesday, I had the privilege on behalf of the Bar to welcome and congratulate the Honourable Justice Andrea Tsalamandris on her appointment to the Supreme Court of Victoria. There will be ceremonial sittings to welcome the new Associate Justices of the Supreme Court in the week beginning 15 August, as follows:
- Associate Justice Fiona Steffensen on Monday, 15 August 2022 at 9:15am;
- Associate Justice Matthew Barrett on Wednesday, 17 August 2022 at 9:15am.
Please see the details below.
I remind members who are working on pro bono matters that they can seek assistance from Monash University law students through the Open Justice Project. For more information, please see the notice below.
I am looking forward to visiting Brisbane this weekend to attend the Australian Womens’ Lawyers’ National Conference on behalf of the Australian Bar Association, which is a sponsor of the conference. There are a number of excellent presenters. It should be an interesting weekend.
Róisín Annesley QC
The Bar Council calls for expressions of interest from members who wish to be considered for nomination for appointment to the VLSB.
Nominations close on Friday, 12 August 2022 and should be emailed to presidentbc@vicbar.com.au.
Click here to view the flyer with more information.
Supreme Court of Victoria
A welcome sitting to mark the appointment of the Honourable Associate Justice Fiona Steffensen as an associate Judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria will be held in Banco Court on:
Monday, 15 August 2022 at 9:15am.
The ceremony will be live-streamed and available to watch remotely. Details will become available on the website when available.
A welcome sitting to mark the appointment of the Honourable Associate Justice Matthew Barrett as an associate Judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria will be held in Banco Court on:
Wednesday, 17 August 2022 at 9:15am.
The ceremony will be live-streamed and available to watch remotely. Details will become available on the website when available.
Consistent with its commitment to transparency and ensuring that all members have a fair opportunity to represent the Victorian Bar, the Victorian Bar Council has organised an expression of interest for its representation on ABA Committees. The expression of interest period opened on 22 July 2022 and closes today, 5 August 2022.
Please click here to express your interest. Please note that current sitting members who wish to remain on a Committee must also complete the form.
The Council of Law Reporting in Victoria (the Council) requests that the Victorian Bar makes two appointments of members to the Council.
The function of the Council is “to prepare and sell or arrange for the preparation publication and sale of reports of judicial decisions of any court in Victoria”: s 10(1) of the Council of Law Reporting in Victoria Act (1967). The Council’s main focus is the publication of the Victorian Reports. Since 2016, the Council’s appointed publisher of the VRs has been Little William Bourke Pty Ltd, a company associated with Jade-BarNet. LWB publishes the VRs in print and online: www.victorianreports.com.au. The VRs are also re-published, by arrangement, by LexisNexis and Thomson Reuters. The Council makes provision for the distribution of unreported decisions.
The Council is actively involved in managing its various contractual arrangements with publishers, and it engages in activities to promote and stimulate the use of the VRs (and authorised reporting generally) and making them available to the widest range of users at the lowest possible cost. Accordingly, it is beneficial to have, as members of the Council, persons who have an interest in law reporting, as well as skills and experience in negotiating commercial arrangements.
Members of the Council attend a number of meetings of the Council each year, sit on various sub-committees, and are involved in periodic contractual negotiations as well as ad hoc liaison with the current publishers of the VRs and other bodies involved in the dissemination of Victorian court decisions.
The expression of interest period will commence on Friday, 5 August and close on Friday, 19 August. To apply, please email presidentbc@vicbar.com.au.
Commanding the Room is on 23 August 2022 from 5:30pm-7:30pm. In this practical workshop with Richard Lawton, who is a master voice and presentation coach, you will develop skills in vocal delivery strength, communication style, breath control for handling nerves, tips for delivering a clear story and body language and status awareness. This is an in-person event only for barristers. Click here to register.
- Multi Factor Authentication (MFA) to read the recent BCL communication to ensure your Microsoft Office 365 data and @vicbar.com.au email account remains protected from the constant threat of cyber crime. All @vicbar email accounts require this additional layer of protection as a part of the next password change prompt.
- Are you interested in the benefits of a shared printer on your floor? BCL can look after this for you. In partnership with Toshiba, BCL can deliver, support, and manage a printer to your floor, and you will only pay for what you use through your existing BCL invoice. No admin. No contracts. Click here to read the recent BCL communication or enquire with the BCL Service Desk on 9225 8888.
- COVIDSafe at BCL: click here to see what we are doing in regards to healthy building improvements as our COVID-19 response and what you need to do in the event of a positive COVID-19 result.
The following are highlights of upcoming CPD and events for Victorian Bar members. You must be a member of the Victorian Bar and log into the VicBar website to view these events.
- Workers and employers can’t contract out of Workers Compensation legislation, or can they? is on 9 August 2022 from 5:15pm-6:15pm. In this CPD, the speakers will discuss the ramifications of the recent Court of Appeal decision in McKenzie v Healthscope Operations [2020] VSCA 309. This is an in-person event only. Click here to register.
- Recent Tax Cases is on 9 August 2022 from 5:15pm-6:15pm. This presentation will provide an update on recent cases spanning a number of areas of revenue law. This is an in-person event and will also be available online via Zoom. Click here to register.
- Concurrent expert evidence in practice is on 11 August 2022 from 5:15pm-6:15pm. There is a trend to require that experts confer and provide their evidence concurrently, in writing with a joint report and orally in conclave. This seminar considers how this can best be done from the perspective of judicial officers and also a barrister. This is an in-person event and will also be available online via livestream. Click here to register.
For more upcoming CPD events, please visit our listings here.
Join us in person for drinks and hors d’oeuvres with special guest Brendon Gale, Chief Executive Officer, Richmond Football Club.
Also attending Neil Balme, Richmond Football Club and Simon Derrick, Commercial Operations, Richmond Football Club.
All Tiger Supporting Lawyers and Legal Staff are welcome.
Date: Thursday, 1 September 2022, 5:30pm to 7:30pm
Venue: Lander & Rogers Lawyers, Level 15, 477 Collins Street, Melbourne
Cost: $60
Payment by EFT to ‘Tigers@Law’
BSB 033 120 Account No. 391844.
Please provide your name in the reference details.
Please make payment by 26 August 2022
RSVP here
Go Tigers!
Tigers@Law Committee
Studio 11 is delighted to host its current solo exhibition, Aerial Landscapes of Australia, featuring 22 works by local artist Greg Mallyon who is an accomplished and highly collectable artist with a gift for depicting the lyricism of landscape through typographical perspectives. With a Masters in Art (University of NSW), his bold and distinctive paintings are inspired by aerial views of the land below, including geographic features such as lakes, gorges, rivers and deserts, along with the human imprint of city buildings, industrial sites and roads. In 2021 Greg won the inaugural National Capital Art Prize for landscape. All works in the exhibition are for sale (with no GST or commission payable). Works sheets are available at Level 11, Owen Dixon Chambers East. The exhibition runs until 16 September 2022. Why not take some time out of your day to enjoy the exhibition.
Dear Essoign Club Members,
We are open daily from 7:30am – till late and Happy hour is back EVERY EVENING with $5 Beer and Wine from 5:00pm till close.
Breakfast - for dine-in or takeaway.
Lunch – Daily Café Menu take away or delivery.
Lunch Dine-In - A La Carte from midday.
Bar – EVERY EVENING - $5 Beer & Wine from 5:00pm till late with light snacks available.
Catering & Events - Special lunches, working lunches, private dinners or something special you may have in mind. Email us at essoign@vicbar.com.au
We appreciate your ongoing support and look forward to seeing you in the Club.
Victorian Bar members are encouraged to use the Member Benefits online portal, where you can access a wide variety of discounts, special offers, and member-only deals as part of your Bar membership.
The exclusive benefits are available Australia-wide and are not generally open to the public.
To activate your account and access the benefits, please click here. You must log in using your vicbar.com.au login details.
Click here for the monthly Best Buys!
The FCFCOA Subpoena form (used for all jurisdictions) has been updated, and the new version, number 0921V3, is now available on the FCFCOA website.
The changes include incorporating a question confirming if leave to issue the subpoena is required (in family law proceedings) and amending some of the Notes.
A grace period for accepting the previous version, number 0921V2, applies until 31 October 2022.
A new flow chart, Leave requirements for subpoenas in family law proceedings, has also been published on the website. It helps guide court users through the requirements for leave to file subpoenas in family law proceedings.
Log in to the Digital Library to access key legal resources no matter where you are – powered by Law Library Victoria. This week we are taking a closer look at HeinOnline:
• Contains 1000s of legal titles, all on a single platform
• Features Australian, English, US and Canadian material
• Includes journals, law reports, and legislation
Some standout resources available on this database:
- Australian Law Reform Commission Library
- Times Law Reports
- Historical UK legislation
- English Reports (1220-1867)
- Federal Law Review
- US and Canadian primary legal material
- Legal Classics Collection
To access HeinOnline and other databases in the Digital Library, register and log in to the Law Library website.
Melbourne Law School is pleased to present the free public event Judicial Independence and Integrity: A Comparative Discussion featuring Judge José Ingreja Matos, President of the International Association of Judges, in a conversation panel with Chief Justice Allsop AO and Laureate Professor Emeritus Cheryl Saunders AO, chaired by The Hon Tony Pagone AM QC. This hybrid-delivered event will be held in-person at the Federal Court of Australia Melbourne and simultaneously live-streamed direct from the court.
For more information, click here.
The details of the event are as follows:
Thursday, 11 August 2022
5:15pm – 6:15pm
Activist short selling campaigns are currently hot news in Australia. In this CLARS Law & Business Seminar on Wednesday, 10 August, Professor Frank Partnoy will discuss the topic of his paper, which investigates the long-term effects of short selling and "negative activism," where activists seek to profit from declines in the share prices of targeted firms. Register here.
The MCLA invites members of the Bar to its Annual Dinner on Thursday, 1 September 2022, at the Athenaeum Club, 87 Collins Street, Melbourne.
Justice Simon Steward of the High Court will speak on "The Christian Judge in an increasingly secular world".
All are welcome to join us for this dinner. For more information and to book, please click here.
LAWASIA are very pleased to announce that the LAWASIA Alternative Dispute Resolution Conference will be held as a face-to-face event in Denarau, Fiji, from 9 to 10 September 2022.
The conference is jointly organised with the South Pacific Lawyers’ Association, the Commonwealth Lawyers Association, the International Law Section of Law Council of Australia and the Fiji Law Society.
Click here for the flyer.
Click here for the official conference website.
We would like to invite barristers to participate in the 10th annual Michael Kirby Contract Law Moot Competition, 26 - 29 September 2022, at Victoria Law School, Melbourne.
Click here and add your availability details.
ABOUT THE KIRBY MOOT
Australia’s only Contract Law Moot, the Kirby Moot, is one of the largest competitions of its kind. It is a fixture in the legal calendar and has support from the County Court
of Victoria, members of the Victorian Bar, various law firms and legal training institutions.
WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT
- University participation from across Australia.
- Only two teams per university will be eligible to register.
- A moot problem closely resembling a real-life contract law dispute.
- Students gain formative, regular feedback from practitioners. They develop fundamental lawyering skills, including problem-solving, legal analysis, reasoning and research, communication (oral and written), management and teamwork.
For more information, please visit the website here.
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Deadline for the next issue:5pm, 11th August 2022