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Mentoring and Blackburn Lecture

donohueco July 26, 2019 0 Comments

26 July 2019 What can you do for your Law Society? Recently the very active and capable Young Lawyers Committee held their bi-annual mentoring event at which Peter Garrisson SC the ACT Solicitor-General spoke in rousing and interesting terms about the importance of having mentoring in early years, and his own early years as an […]

Blackburn Lecture by retired magistrate Karen Fryar AM on “pro bono”, presentation by retired Chief Justice of the ACT Supreme Court, the Honourable Terence Higgins AO QC, on the workings of the PNG legal system, and the constitutional basis for the Manus Island case

donohueco May 17, 2019 0 Comments

17 May 2019 This year Law Week was launched by the Attorney-General Gordon Ramsay MLA with some self-effacing humour and a very worthwhile reminder that we all work to protect the right to equal access to the legal system, and one of the “vital rights … we must uphold is the right to a coherent, […]