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Federal Court of Australia Annual Report 2018–19

Appendix 8: Judges' activities

Chief Justice Allsop

Chief Justice Allsop is:

a part-time teacher in maritime law at the University of Queensland
an Honorary Bencher of the Middle Temple
a member of the American Law Institute
a fellow of the Australian Academy of Law
an Adjunct Professor in the School of Law at the University of Queensland
President of Francis Forbes Society for Australian Legal History
Patron of the Australian Insurance Law Association
Chair of Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration Judicial Liaison Committee 2019, and
a Member on the Asian Business Law Institute Board of Governors representing the Australian Judiciary.

Date	Activity
12 July 2018	Attended the Hellenic Australian Lawyers International Rhodes Conference and presented ‘The Place that launched a Thousand Ships: Some Hellenic Influences on Maritime Law and Commerce’.
31 July 2018	Attended the 2018 Geoff Masel Lecture at HWL Ebsworth Sydney Office as Patron of the Australian Insurance Law Association.
3 August 2018	Hosted and presided over the final of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders’ Moot Competition 2018 at the Federal Court in Brisbane.
17 August 2018	Presided over the ceremonial sitting to farewell the Honourable Justice Richard Tracey AM RFD, at the Federal Court in Melbourne.
20 August 2018	Hosted a cocktail reception at the Federal Court in Sydney for the International Law Association Biennial Conference.
23 August 2018	Participated in the Australian Academy of Law/Australian Academy of Science Symposium ‘Are you sure’ with other panellist the Honourable Robert French AC. Title ‘Uncertainty as part of Certainty: Recognising the Limits of Definitional Clarity and Embracing the Need for Uncertainty to Understand the Whole’.
29 August 2018	Hosted the AMTAC Annual Address 2018, presented by Justice Steven Rares at the Federal Court in Sydney.
7 September 2018	Presided over the ceremonial sitting for the retirement of the Honourable Justice Anthony North, at the Federal Court in Melbourne.
8–9 September 2018	Lectured at the University of Queensland.
15–16 September 2018	Lectured at the University of Queensland.
17 September 2018	Signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Federal Court of Australia and the High Court of the Solomon Islands, with Chief Justice Palmer. The MoU is a formal commitment by both courts to provide judicial cooperation over the coming five years. The ceremony was at the Federal Court in Sydney.
18 September 2018	Attended and hosted a seminar ‘Introduction to the Aboriginal Land Rights System in NSW’, a joint initiative of the NSW Judicial Commission Ngara Yura Committee, the NSW Bar Association’s First Nations Committee and the Law Society of NSW Indigenous Issues Committee at the Federal Court in Sydney.
19 September 2018	Hosted and commentated at the Australian Association of Constitutional Law Seminar entitled ‘Reflections on the Executive Power of the Commonwealth: Recent Developments, Interpretational Methodology and Constitutional Symmetry’ at the Federal Court in Sydney.
20 September 2018	Attended the Australian Disputes Centre’s Supreme Court of New South Wales ADR Address 2018, given by the Honourable Chief Justice Tom Bathurst, AC at the Supreme Court of New South Wales.
22–23 September 2018	Attended the second biennial Judicial Insolvency Network Conference in New York City.
24–25 September 2018	Attended the International Insolvency Institute’s (III) 18th annual conference in New York City.
26 September 2018	Attended and co-chaired the meeting of the Advisory and Working Committees of the ABLI-III Asian Principles of Restructuring project in New York City.
27–28 September 2018	Attended the Standing International Forum of Commercial Courts meeting in New York City.
3 October 2018	Spoke to the Victorian readers at the Federal Court in Melbourne.
3 October 2018	Conducted the swearing in of Mr Michael Wheelahan in Melbourne.
5 October 2018	Introduced and hosted the Federal Court Digital Practice Forum with the Law Council of Australia at the Federal Court in Sydney. The discussion paper was entitled ‘Improving the delivery of justice using technology’.
8 October 2018	Attended the ceremonial sitting for the retirement for Chief Justice Pascoe, at the Federal Court in Sydney.
9 October 2018	Attended the Federal Circuit Court’s Annual Plenary for judges and addressed the judges on ‘Writing Ex Temps – What is expected’.
15 October 2018	Attended and spoke at the CIArb Australian Annual Lecture entitled ‘The Role of Law in International Arbitration’ at Allens in Melbourne.
18 October 2018	Hosted and chaired the Australian Academy of Law Patron’s Address by The Rt. Hon. Dame Sian Elias, GNZM, Chief Justice of New Zealand in Court 1 of the Federal Court in Melbourne. Entitled ‘Back to the Future? How local history, customs and traditions are still shaping our legal orders’.
23 October 2018	Attended the Council of Chief Justices meeting in Melbourne.
24 October 2018	Spoke at the UNCCA (UNCITRAL National Coordination Committee of Australia) lecture ‘New York Convention – Celebrating its 60th Anniversary: Reflections and Predictions’ at the Federal Court in Melbourne.
25 October 2018	Opened in courtroom 1 of the Federal Court in Melbourne via VCF ‘Employment and Industrial Relations NPA Seminar’ broadcast from Sydney.
26 October 2018	Presided over the welcome ceremonial sitting of the Court for the Honourable Michael Wheelahan at the Federal Court in Melbourne.
31 October 2018	Presided over the AILA Young Professionals Mock Trial at the Federal Court in Perth.
1 November 2018	Attended and gave the plenary address at the AILA national conference in Perth.
1 November 2018	Delivered the annual Quayside Oration 2018 entitled ‘The Rule of Law is not the law of rules’ in Perth.
12 November 2018	Opened the Tristan Jepson Memorial Foundation Annual Lecture at the Federal Court in Sydney.
17 November 2018	Attended and addressed the Plenary of the Joint Australian Bar Association and New South Wales Bar Association Biennial Conference entitled ‘the Future of the Independent Bar in Australia’.
29 November 2018	Attended the Family Court’s Plenary Conference and gave an address entitled ‘Delivering ex tempore reasons’.
10 December 2018	Attended the ceremonial sitting of the Family Court of Australia to swear in the Hon. Chief Justice William Alstergren and the Hon. Deputy Chief Justice Robert McClelland.
13 December 2018	Presided over the ceremonial sitting of the Federal Court of Melbourne for the announcement of the appointment of Senior Counsel in Victoria.
13 December 2018	Presided over the ceremonial sitting of the Federal Court of Queensland for the announcement of the appointment of Senior Counsel in Queensland.
23 January 2019	Attended and presented the session entitled ‘The Courts as Institutions and Workplaces’ at the Supreme and Federal Court Judges’ Conference in Hobart.
30 January 2019	Presided over the ceremonial sitting of the Full Court to farewell the Honourable Justice Barker at the Federal Court in Perth.
31 January 2019	Presided over the special sitting of the Full Court of the Federal Court of Western Australia for the announcement of the appointment of Senior Council in Western Australia.
1 February 2019	Presided over the ceremonial sitting of the Full Court for the swearing in and welcome of the Honourable Justice Anastassiou at the Federal Court in Melbourne.
6 February 2019	Attended the Jewish Law Service at The Great Synagogue in Sydney.
16 February 2019	Attended the 6th Judicial Seminar on Commercial Litigation in Sydney and chaired session 4 entitled ‘The role of equity in 21st century commercial disputes’.
18 February 2019	Hosted and attended an informal drinks function to celebrate the newly appointed Silks at the Federal Court in Melbourne.
20 February 2019	Attended the Victorian Bar Pro Bono Awards ceremony at the Supreme Court Library in Victoria.
25 February 2019	Conducted the swearing in of Mr Angus Stewart SC in Sydney.
26 February 2019	Conducted the swearing in of Mr Michael O’Bryan QC in Melbourne.
27 February 2019	Attended the farewell ceremony for the Honourable Justice Margaret Beazley AO as President of the Court of Appeal at the Supreme Court of New South Wales.
27 February 2019	Hosted and attended an informal drinks function to celebrate the newly appointed Silks at the Sydney registry of the Federal Court.
28 February 2019	Attended the formal ceremony to honour the appointment of Dr Andrew Bell SC as President of the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of New South Wales.
4 March 2019	Attended the Law Society Credential Visit with the NSW Executive Committee at the Federal Court in Sydney.
8 March 2019	Attended the ABA International Women’s Day event with The Honourable Margaret Beazley AO QC, Governor-Designate of NSW speaking at Chief Justice’s Garden, St James.
20 March 2019	Presided over the ceremonial sitting of the Full Court for the swearing in and welcome of the Honourable Justice Jackson, at the Federal Court in Perth.
25 March 2019	Presided over the ceremonial sitting of the Court to welcome Justice Stewart at the Federal Court in Sydney.
26 March 2019	Attended and presented the opening lecture at the Special Lecture Series, University of Queensland, entitled ‘Technology and the future of the courts’ at the Federal Court in Brisbane.
2 April 2019	Attended the Council of Chief Justices meeting in Sydney.
4 April 2019	Attended and presented the 12th Annual Whitemore Lecture 2019 entitled ‘The foundations of Administrative Law’, at the Federal Court in Sydney.
9 April 2019	Presided over the ceremonial sitting of the Court to welcome Justice O’Bryan, at the Federal Court in Melbourne.
11 April 2019	Hosted a visit from The Honourable Paul Crampton, Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Canada.
29 April 2019	Presided over the ceremonial sitting of the Full Court for the swearing in and welcome of the Honourable Justice Snaden, at the Federal Court in Melbourne.
30 April 2019	Attended the ceremonial sitting of the Family Court of Australia in Melbourne to welcome Justice Tim McEvoy as a Judge of the Family Court of Australia.
30 April 2019	Attended and spoke at the Maritime Law Association of Australia and New Zealand (Victorian Branch) Seminar entitled ‘The Burden of Proof under the Hague-Visby Rules: Volcafe Ltd v Campania Sud Americana De Vapores SA [2018] UKSC 61’.
1 May 2019	Gave the welcoming address to the Victorian Bar readers entitled ‘History of the Federal Court’ at the Federal Court in Melbourne.
6 May 2019	Presided over the ceremonial sitting of the Full Court for the swearing in and welcome of the Honourable Justice Anderson, at the Federal Court in Melbourne.
7 May 2019	Presided over the ceremonial sitting of the Full Court for the swearing in and welcome of the Honourable Wendy Abraham, at the Federal Court in Sydney.
16 May 2019	Gave the welcoming address to the New South Wales Bar readers entitled ‘History of the Federal Court’.
22 May 2019	Attended an official dinner, along with Rares, Rangiah, Moshinsky, Bromwich, Burley and Stewart JJ, at the invitation of His Excellency Consul-General (Ambassadorial Rank) of the People’s Republic of China in Sydney.
5 June 2019	Attended and chaired the Francis Forbes Society lecture presented by Professor Anne Twomey entitled ‘Pitt Cobbett – A Pre-Engineer’s Ghost Speaks from the Grave’.
6 June 2019	Attended the IMLAM Demonstration Moot at Sydney Law School.
15 June 2019	Attended the Ngara Yura Exchanging Ideas Symposium at Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences in Sydney and chaired the session entitled ‘Challenges in Achieving First Nations Consensus in Treaty Making Processes’.
16–19 June 2019	Attended the Federal Court delegation visit in Jakarta hosted by The Honorary Chief Justice of Supreme Court of the Republic of Indonesia. Presented a lecture to the Supreme Court of Indonesia judges entitled ‘Australia’s Experience: Rule of Law to Promote Economic Growth’. Also presented a lecture to judicial leaders and Government Ministers entitled ‘Role of Reform in the Legal and Judicial Sectors to Promote Economic Growth’.

Justice Kenny

Justice Kenny is:

a member of the Council of the Australian Institute of Judicial Administration
a Foundation Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law
a College Fellow of St Hilda’s College, University of Melbourne
Chair, Asian Law Centre Advisory Board, Melbourne University Law School, and
Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of the Intellectual Property Society of Australia and New Zealand.

Date	Activity
13 August 2018	Hosted a delegation of Sri Lankan judges, in conjunction with National Judicial Registrar Luxton, the acting Director of Court Services and the Melbourne Law School.
17 September 2018	Contributed to the Asian Law Centre Review Panel’s five-year review, Melbourne Law School.
11 October 2018	Led discussion with the Hon. Justice Dennis Davis (High Court of South Africa) and Ms Anna Dziedzic on ‘Being a Judge’, in the Judges in Conversation series.
30 November 2018	Participated (by invitation) in a conference to mark 30 years of the Centre for Comparative Constitution Studies, Melbourne Law School.
24 January 2019	Discussion with Professor Hilary Charlesworth AM regarding the history of Australia’s participation in the International Court of Justice.
15 March 2019	Hosted event for the award of Future Justice Prize 2019 to Antoinette Braybrook.
25 March 2019	Launched A Genovese, T Luker and K Rubenstein (eds), The Court as Archive (ANU Press, 2019).

Justice Greenwood

Date	Activity
8 November 2018	Chapter published in The Federal Court’s Contribution to Australian Law; Past, Present and Future, Editors Ridge and Stellios, entitled ‘The Federal Court’s Jurisdiction in Intellectual Property’ (delivered on 8 September 2017 at the Australian National University Conference to mark the 40th Anniversary of the Federal Court).
13 May 2019	Delivered remarks in recognition of the 20th Anniversary of Frontier Economics
23 May 2019	Delivered address to the University of Queensland Law School on Practice and Procedure in the Federal Court.
25 May 2019	Attended and chaired the opening session of the Competition Law Conference in Sydney.

Justice Rares

Justice Rares is:

a member of the Comité Maritime International’s International Working Group on Offshore Activities
a Senior Vice President and a member of the Board of Management of the Australasian Institute of Judicial Administration
presiding member of the Admiralty Rules Committee, and
Chair of the Consultative Council for Australian Law Reporting until retiring on 31 May 2019.

Date	Activity
5 July 2018	Chaired a meeting of the Admiralty Rules Committee.
29 August 2018	Presented speech titled ‘The Rule of Law and International Trade’ at Australian Maritime and Transport Arbitration Commission’s Annual Address in Sydney.
September 2018	Gave an interview for Adam Butt and Hugh Stowe ‘Playing in the hot tub – a guide to concurrent expert evidence in New South Wales’, published in Bar News (Spring 2018).
31 October 2018	Panellist at the Law Council of Australia’s Defamation Seminar on online defamation and the s 49 review in Sydney.
17 April 2019	Chaired the judging panel for the University of Technology, Sydney, Commercial Law Moot Grand Final in Sydney.
10 May 2019	Attended the UNCCA panel discussion, hosted by the University of Canberra in Canberra.
30–31 May 2019	Chaired meeting of the Consultative Council for Australian Law Reporting in Brisbane.
6 June 2019	Presented a paper titled ‘Speaking the right social media language’ at National Conference for the Council of Australasian Tribunals in Melbourne.
13 June 2019	Chaired a user group meeting of Admiralty practitioners in Sydney.
13 June 2019	Published opening chapter ‘Commercial Issues in Private International Law’ in Douglas, Bath, Keys and Dickinson (eds) Commercial Issues in Private International Law (Hart Publishing, 2019).
25–30 June 2019	Acting Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Australia.
27 June 2019	Published chapter ‘Declining Jurisdiction Following Arrest’ in Paul Myburgh (ed) The Arrest Conventions: International Enforcement of Maritime Claims (Bloomsbury, 2019).

Justice Middleton

Justice Middleton is:

a Council Member of the University of Melbourne
Chair of the University of Melbourne Foundation and Trust Committee
a Member of the American Law Institute
a Member of the ACICA Advisory Board
a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law, and
Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of the Intellectual Property Society of Australia and New Zealand.

Date	Activity
7–9 September 2018	Spoke at the 32nd IPSANZ Annual Conference in New Zealand on ‘Concurrent Expert Evidence: Still Flavour of the Month?’.
21–22 September 2018	Spoke with The Hon Teresa Cheng GBS SC JP, Secretary for Justice of Hong Kong and Sir Rupert Jackson PC at the Hong Kong 2018 International Commercial Law Conference on ‘The Rise of the International Commercial Court’.
27–28 September 2018	Attended, with Chief Justice Allsop, the Standing International Forum of Commercial Courts, Second Meeting in New York.
17 October 2018	Chaired a session at the 6th International Arbitration Conference on ‘Around the Globe in 60 minutes: Hot Topics in International Arbitration’ in Melbourne.
15–17 November 2018	Spoke with the Hon Justice David Hammerschlag at the Australian Bar Association/New South Wales Bar Association biennial conference on ‘The Fate of Old Time Advocacy Skills in Modern Commercial Litigation’ in Sydney.
27 February 2019	Spoke at a presentation by the Federal Court and the Commercial Law Bar Association in Melbourne on ‘Class actions and third party litigation funders – what’s next after the ALRC final report?’.
17 April 2019	Spoke with the Hon Justice O’Callaghan to the Victorian Bar Readers’ Course on Written Advocacy.
18 June 2019	Chaired a public seminar of the Australian Law Reform Commission and the University of Melbourne on ‘The Future of Law Reform: Constitutional and Immigration Issues’.

Justice Logan

Date	Activity
3–8 September 2018	Assisted a teaching team from the Queensland Bar in the delivery of a commercial litigation workshop at Papua New Guinea’s Legal Training Institute.
10–14 September 2018	Attended the Commonwealth Magistrates’ and Judges’ Association Conference in Brisbane. Delivered a paper on the subject of the origins of and contemporary need for military justice system. Served on the local organising committee for this conference.
16 November 2018	Delivered a paper at the South-East Queensland Joint Services Legal Panel Training Day on the subject of the inter-relationships between the military discipline and administrative discharge systems.

Justice McKerracher

Justice McKerracher is:

a Chair of the UNCITRAL Coordination Committee for Australia, and
the Court’s representative on the Governing Council and Executive of the Judicial Conference of Australia.

Date	Activity
20 September 2018	Hosted and addressed the Women Lawyers of Western Australia at the Federal Court in Perth.
5–7 October 2018	Participated in the Judicial Conference of Australia Colloquium and the Governing Council Meeting in Melbourne.
10–12 October 2018	Delivered a speech to the 2018 MLAANZ 45th National Conference in the Blue Mountains, NSW entitled ‘The 5th Decade of Admiralty Law in the Federal Court’.
20 October 2018	Spoke at the Inaugural Piddington Society’s South West Conference at Yallingup on ‘federal jurisdiction’.
23 October 2018	Participated in the ACICA Symposium on the New York Convention in Perth.
24 October 2018	Spoke at the annual UNCCA United Nations Day Lecture in Perth on ‘The 60th Anniversary of the New York Convention 1958–2018’.
15 November 2018	Spoke at the University of Western Australia’s UNCITRAL Asia Pacific Day 2018 on ‘Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of the NYC’.
19 March 2019	Chaired a Joint CIArb Australia and Federal Court Seminar in Perth.
20 March 2019	Chaired a session as part of the WA Bar Association’s CPD program on ‘Jurisdictional error after SZVFW, TTY167, Hossain and Shrestha’ in Perth.
5 April 2019	Participated in the Inaugural Piddington Society ‘Meet the Feds’ event in Perth.
10 May 2019	As Chair of UNCCA, participated in the fifth annual May UNCCA seminar in Canberra.
13–17 May 2019	Represented the International Association of Judges and the Court at the UNCITRAL Working Group VI (judicial sale of ships) at the United Nations in New York.
29 May 2019	Delivered an address by video link to the Judges of the Federal Circuit Court of Australia on ‘Recent Developments in Migration Law’.
5 June 2019	Delivered an annual address on Federal Jurisdiction to the Western Australian Bar Association Bar Readers’ Course in Perth.
7–9 June 2019	Participated in the Judicial Conference of Australia Colloquium, chairing a session entitled ‘Technology in the Courts’, and the Governing Council Meeting in Darwin.

Justice Perram

Date	Activity
13 October 2018	Spoke at the University of South Australia/ACCC 16th Competition Law and Economics Workshop entitled ‘Competition Policy: can it deliver in the new digital age?’
24 October 2018	Chaired the UNICTRAL National Coordination Committee for Australia – United Nations Lecture in Sydney.
16 November 2018	Spoke at the Australian Bar Association/New South Wales Car Association National Conference entitled ‘Judges in Conversation’.
28 June 2019	Presented at the Commercial Law Association June Judges series entitled ‘The ordinary and reasonable consumer in misleading or deceptive conduct cases’.

Justice Jagot

Justice Jagot is Chair of the Council of Chief Justices’ Harmonisation of Rules Committee.

Date	Activity
17 October 2018	Attended announcement of the appointments of Senior Counsel for the State of New South Wales.
16 November 2018	Addressed delegates at the National Bar Association Conference.
6 December 2018	Delivered an occasional address at a graduation ceremony at the University of Sydney Law School.

Justice Foster

Date	Activity
22 August 2018	Chaired a working session dealing with foreign judgment and issues of enforcement and recognition at the Biennial Conference of the International Law Association in Sydney.
25 May 2019	Chaired the session ‘Proof of Collusion’ in Cartel Cases at the Competition Law Conference in Sydney.

Justice Yates

Justice Yates is a Member of the Editorial Board of The Journal of the Intellectual Property Society of Australia and New Zealand.

Date	Activity
17 October 2018	Delivered a presentation to Hong Kong SAR Legal Officials as part of the Court’s International Programs.
20–23 January 2019	Attended the Supreme and Federal Court Judges’ Conference in Hobart.
24 June 2019	Delivered a presentation to representatives of the National Judicial Academy Nepal as part of the Court’s International Programs.

Justice Bromberg

Justice Bromberg is:

the Federal Court’s representative for the Judicial Officers Aboriginal Cultural Awareness Committee
a coordinator for the Federal Court on the Victorian Bar’s Indigenous Clerkship Program
the National Vice-President of the International Commission of Jurists, and
the President of the International Commission of Jurists, Victoria.

Date	Activity
15 October 2018	Chaired and spoke at the Annual Industrial Law Update presented by the Industrial Bar Association of the Victorian Bar.
25 October 2018	Hosted and spoke at an Employment and Industrial Relations Seminar at the Federal Court on current issues in the practice of employment and industrial law.
14 November 2018	Spoke at the Fair Work Commission’s Twilight on the Judicial Review of FWC Decisions.
28 May 2019	Gave the occasional address and presented the Monash Faculty of Law Prize for Best Honours Thesis and the Monash Faculty of Law Prize for the Best Honours Student at this year’s Undergraduate Prize Ceremony.
26 June 2019	Chaired the Federal Court and Judicial College of Victoria’s twilight seminar ‘Bruce Pascoe on Myth, Culture, History and the Law’.

Justice Katzmann

Justice Katzmann is:

a Director of Minds Count (formerly the Tristan Jepson Memorial Foundation)
a Chair of the Governing Council of Neuroscience Research Australia
a Member of the Advisory Committee of the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law
a committee member of the Australian Association of Women Judges
a Member of the Australian Academy of Law, and
a representative on the organising committee for the Supreme and Federal Court Judges’ Conference.

Date	Activity
9 July 2018	Panellist at workshop entitled ‘Uncloaking the judiciary: The judicial role, style and image’ organised by the Judiciary Project of the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law.
21–23 January 2019	Attended the Supreme and Federal Court Judges’ Conference in Hobart.

Justice Robertson

Justice Robertson is the Deputy President of the Australian Academy of Law.

Date	Activity
2 October 2018	Appointed a Visiting Judicial Fellow at the ANU College of Law.
10–12 October 2018	Represented the Federal Court at the 8th OECD/Korea Policy Centre Competition Seminar for Asia-Pacific Judges, ‘Circumstantial Evidence and Cartel Cases’ in Jakarta. Spoke at the launch of the Competition Primers and presented a paper, ‘Using Circumstantial Evidence: The Judicial Perspective from Australia – Procedures, Principles and Cases’.
21–23 January 2019	Attended the Supreme and Federal Court Judges’ Conference in Hobart.
26 February 2019	Presented a paper at the ANU staff seminar, ‘Judicial Method and What Judges do’.
28 February 2019	Presented to students at the ANU College of Law, ‘A Day in the Life of a Federal Court Judge and his associate’ – with Will Randles.
1 April 2019	Presented a paper, ‘How does the Federal Court deal with findings of fact on Judicial Review of Administrative Action?’ at the Australian National University.

Justice Murphy

Justice Murphy is:

a Member of the University of Melbourne, Law School Advisory Council, and
a Board Member of Kids First Australia.

Date	Activity
19 September 2018	Presented to Victorian Bar Readers as part of the Bar Readers’ Course, Melbourne
25 September 2018	Attended the IMF Bentham and University of New South Wales Class Action conference in Melbourne.
26 October 2018	Spoke on ‘Class Actions and Litigation Funding Reform’, Association of Litigation Funders of Australia conference in Melbourne.
16 November 2018	Panel member, ‘The rise of competing securities class actions’ Rise 2018 Conference in Sydney.
27 February 2019	Spoke at the ‘Class actions and third party litigation funders – what’s next after the ALRC final report?’ seminar in Melbourne.
15 March 2019	Spoke on ‘Civil Justice Reforms in Class Actions’ at the Association of Litigation Funders of Australia Conference in Melbourne.
25 March 2019	Presented to Victorian Bar Readers as part of the Bar Readers’ Course in Melbourne.
5 April 2019	Roundtable participant, ‘Globalisation of Civil Litigation’ conference, Stanford University, USA.

Justice Griffiths

Justice Griffiths is:

a Member of the Law Society of New South Wales – Judicial Working Party – Improving Accessibility for Indigenous Court and Tribunal Users, and
a Member of Australasian Institute of Judicial Administration – Indigenous Justice Committee.

Date	Activity
2–3 November 2018	Presented paper at the Australian National University’s Public Law Weekend on ‘Review of Visa Cancellation or Refusal Decisions on Character Grounds: A Comparative Analysis’.
10 November 2018	Delivered the keynote address at launch of Burt Flugelman exhibition at Wollongong University.

Justice Davies

Date	Activity
16 August 2018	Gave the keynote address at the Tax Institute’s 2018 Western Australian State Convention.
18 August 2018	Provided feedback from the Bench Moot for Women Barristers – Victorian Court of Appeal.
29 September 2018	Attended the 9th Assembly of the International Association of Tax Judges in Ottawa, Canada and spoke on Tax Fraud in VAT/GST.
16 November 2018	Chaired a session on ‘Multilateral instrument/treaties’ at the Australian Bar Association Conference in Sydney.

Justice Mortimer

Justice Mortimer is:

a Senior Fellow, Melbourne Law School
a Member, Advisory Board of the Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies
a Member, Australian Academy of Law
a Member, International Association of Refugee Law Judges
a Member, Monash University Faculty of Law ‘External Professional Advisory Committee’, and
a Member, Board of Advisors of the Public Law Review.

Date	Activity
11–13 July 2018	Attended the Public Law Conference 2018 ‘The Frontiers of Public Law’ at Melbourne Law School, and:Chaired the session ‘Frontiers of Federalism’ on Friday 13 July 2018.Presented a paper on ‘Coming to Terms with Communal Decision Making by Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Peoples in a Public Law Context’ on Friday 13 July 2018.
16 August 2018	Hosted students from Melbourne Law School at the Court as part of their Refugee Law Class studies, and provided a briefing to the students.
18 August 2018	Adjudicated the ‘Feedback from the Bench’ moot for women barristers.
31 August 2018	Contributed an article ‘Some thoughts on writing judgments in, and for, contemporary Australia’ to the Melbourne University Law Review, Volume 42, Number 1, 2018.
6–11 September 2018	Co-taught the subject, with Laureate Professor Cheryl Saunders, ‘Current Issues in Administrative Law’ as part of the Melbourne Law Master’s Program at Melbourne Law School.
19 September 2018	Keynote speaker at the Melbourne University Law Students’ Society Women’s Portfolio Networking Night.
15–16 November 2018	Attended the International Association of Refugee and Migration Judges Asia Pacific Conference in Wellington, New Zealand, and presented a paper on ‘Family Unity –Balancing Human Rights and Border Integrity’.
21 January 2019	Member of the John Gibson Award 2018 selection committee.
6 March 2019	Panel member for the Melbourne University Law Students’ Society International Women’s Day Panel.
25 March 2019	Adjudicated the Monash Law Students’ Society General Moot 2019
5–7 April 2019	Attended the Language and the Law III conference in Alice Springs
11 April 2019	Presented an Australian Institute of Administrative Law CPD seminar on ‘What Judges want (and what Judges do); preparing judicial review cases and how courts review fact finding’.
28 June 2019	Facilitated the Western Australia Native Title User Group workshop meeting, hosted by the Federal Court’s Perth registry.

Justice Wigney

Date	Activity
23 August 2018	Panellist for the Federal Court and the Tax Committee of the Australian Bar Association presentation and discussion on tax and debt recovery.
20 September 2018	Presented at the 2018 University of Sydney Law & Business Seminar, entitled ‘White Collars, Dirty Cuffs: The BBSW Cases and Rate Riggings’.
9 October 2018	Presented at the annual plenary for judges of the Federal Circuit Court on ‘Legal Unreasonableness’.
25 May 2019	Chaired the 2019 Competition Law Conference at a session entitled ‘Substantial lessening of competition under s 46 – Will we know it when we see it?’

Justice Perry

Justice Perry is:

a Squadron Leader, Royal Australian Air Force, Legal Specialist Reserves
a member of the Judicial Council on Diversity established by the Council of Chief Justices as the representative of the Federal Court
a Foundation Fellow, Australian Academy of Law
an Honorary Visiting Research Fellow, Law School, University of Adelaide
a member of: the Advisory Committee to the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law, University of New South Wales; the Law School Advisory Board, University of Adelaide; the Advisory Council, Centre for International and Public Law, Australian National University; and the Board of Advisors, Research Unit on Military Law and Ethics, University of Adelaide.
the Section Editor (Administrative Law), Australian Law Journal.
a Member, Panel of Supervisors, PhD Student, Law School, Australian National University
the Patron, NSW Chapter, Hellenic Australian Lawyers Association, and
an Ambassador for One Disease (a non-profit organisation concerned with the elimination of preventable diseases in remote indigenous communities).

Date	Activity
9–13 July 2018	Presented at the Hellenic Australian Lawyers Association Conference, Rhodes, Greece, on ‘Water, Territory, and the Role of History: Thoughts from an International Perspective’.
14 August 2018	Delivered the keynote address at the launch of the Sydney University Law Society/ King & Wood Mallesons Women’s Mentoring Scheme in Sydney.
20 August 2018	Introduced the Hon. Justice Stephen Gageler AC who delivered the inaugural Hellenic Australian Lawyers NSW Chapter Oration at the Federal Court in Sydney.
5 September 2018	Spoke at a Q&A on Native Title and the Federal Court with students from Tranby National Indigenous Adult Education visiting the National Native Title Tribunal.
14 September 2018	Attended the Janet Coombs lunch for new female barristers.
20 September 2018	Delivered the Annual Kirby Lecture, Australian National University in Canberra, on ‘The Duality of Water: Conflict or Co-operation’ (to be published in the Australian Yearbook of International Law).
1 November 2018	Delivered a paper entitled ‘Water Law: Re-Imagining the Future through the Prism of Antiquity’ at the Environment Institute of Australia and New Zealand 2018 Annual Conference in Sydney.
15 February 2019	Attended the 2019 Gilbert + Tobin Constitutional Law Conference in Sydney.
18 February 2019	Participated in the Indigenous Clerks Program 2019.
23 March 2019	Keynote speaker for 2019 CPD Immigration Law Conference in Canberra, on ‘iDecide: Digital Pathways to Decision’.
25 March 2019	Judged a practice moot for the Sydney University Jessup Moot team.
26 March 2019	Participated in a panel discussion on ‘Mentoring Diversity’, Women Lawyers Association of NSW.
4 April 2019	Spoke to school students from St Columba Anglican School and Canowindra High School visiting the Federal Court and arranged by the Rule of Law Institute of Australia pursuant to its Law Day Out Excursion Program.
6 May 2019	Contributed an article on ‘The Law, Equality and Inclusiveness in a Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Society’ to the special issue of the Adelaide Law Review celebrating its 40th anniversary.
27 June 2019	Participated in a panel discussion on ‘Advocacy in Judicial Review Proceedings’ by the Women Barristers Forum.

Justice Gleeson

Date	Activity
10–12 September 2018	Attended the UNCITRAL Trade Law Forum, Incheon in South Korea.
2–5 November 2018	Moderated on the Cross-Border Insolvency Session at the 31st LAWASIA Conference, Siem Reap in Cambodia.
15–17 November 2018	Spoke at the Australian Bar Association National Conference ‘Rise’ 2018, Sydney on ‘Managing Civil Litigation in the Courts of the 21st Century’.
14–16 February 2019	Presented at the sixth Judicial Seminar on Commercial Litigation, Sydney on ‘Applications of law of evidence in commercial litigation’.
31 March–5 April 2019	Presented at the National Judicial College of Australia National Judicial Orientation Program, Adelaide on ‘Court craft – the trial from hell (part two)’.
10 May 2019	Presented at the UNCCA Fifth Annual May Seminar, Canberra on ‘Judicial Cooperation in Cross-Border Insolvency’.
25 May 2019	Attended the 2019 Competition Law Conference in Sydney.
13 June 2019	Presented at a NSW Bar Association CPD Session, Sydney on ‘Fresh perspectives on equitable briefing: But first, some statistics …’

Justice Markovic

Date	Activity
23–24 July 2018	Presented as a panel member at the Judicial Colloquium session ‘Do and can courts make a difference in promoting an efficient, fair and successful cross border restructuring and insolvency’, Singapore Insolvency Conference 2018.
8 March 2019	Chaired the Commercial Law Association Class Actions Conference ‘Class actions: different perspectives’.
14 March 2019	Chaired the New South Wales Bar Association Continuing Professional Development Seminar – ‘Equitable briefing of experts’.
31 March 2019	Sat as one of three judges on a panel of one of the semi-final rounds of the Ian Fletcher International Insolvency Law Moot.
1–2 April 2019	Attended the 13th Joint INSOL/UNCITRAL/World Bank Multinational Judicial Colloquium in Singapore and presented as a panel member on ‘Restructuring Enterprise Groups – Theory and Practice’.
3–4 April 2019	Attended the INSOL International Annual Regional Conference in Singapore.
3 April 2019	Attended a meeting of the Asian Business Law Institute – International Insolvency Institute joint project on the Asian Principles of Business Restructuring.
5 April 2019	Attended the third meeting of the Judicial Insolvency Network.
10 May 2019	Attended UNCCA fifth annual May seminar and chaired session on ‘Judicial Sale of Ships’.

Justice Moshinsky

Justice Moshinsky is:

an alternate director of the National Judicial College of Australia,
a Senior Fellow at the Melbourne Law School, and
a member of the Advisory Board of the Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies at the Melbourne Law School.

Date	Activity
15 February 2019	Presented a paper on ‘The Federal and State Courts on Constitutional Law: The 2018 Term’ at the 2019 Constitutional Law Conference conducted by the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law at the University of New South Wales.
March–May 2019	Co-taught a course on the Separation of Powers in the Masters Program at the Melbourne Law School.
2–3 March 2019	Attended a conference on ‘Judges: Angry? Biased? Burned out?‘ conducted by the National Judicial College of Australia in Canberra.
2 May 2019	Gave a presentation on ‘Good Advocacy, Tips for Written Submissions, Notable Experiences on the Court, Evidence Issues’ at the IPSANZ Victorian Judges’ Dinner Event in Melbourne.
5 June 2019	Chaired a seminar on ‘Financial Services law and enforcement after the Banking Royal Commission’, as part of the National Commercial Law Seminar series conducted by Monash University in conjunction with the Federal Court and the Victorian Bar.
27–28 June 2019	Attended a conference on ‘Judicial Peer Support’ conducted by the Judicial College of Victoria.

Justice Burley

Justice Burley is a member of the advisory board of the Allens Hub for Technology, Law and Innovation.

Date	Activity
25 September 2018	Chaired a panel discussion for the International Arbitration Series hosted by CIArb Australia in conjunction with the Federal Court, with the theme of ‘Independence, Bias and Conflicts in International Commercial Arbitration’.
5 October 2018	Panel speaker for the Federal Court Digital Practice Forum on ‘Improving the delivery of justice using technology’.
10–12 October 2018	Attended the Maritime Law Association of Australia and New Zealand National Conference and gave a presentation entitled ‘Cross-border Insolvency and Admiralty’.
28 November 2018	Panel speaker at the launch of Issue 41(4) of the UNSW Law Journal Launch on the theme ‘Reconceptualising the Trial: Administering Justice in an Era of Social and Technological Change’.
5 December 2018	Guest speaker at the Intellectual Property Society of Australia and New Zealand end of year function.
23–28 April 2019	Attended the 27th Annual Fordham Intellectual Property Law and Policy Conference at Fordham University in New York.

Justice O'Callaghan

Date	Activity
17 October 2018	Chaired the National Commercial Law Seminar entitled ‘Bad Company: Know corporate crime of your clients will do the time’ at the Federal Court in Melbourne.
25 March 2019	Adjudicated the Monash LSS Grand Final General Moot 2019 at the Federal Court in Melbourne.
2 May 2019	Delivered a presentation with the Honourable Justice Moshinsky to the Intellectual Property Society for Australia and New Zealand on ‘Good Advocacy, Tips for Written Submissions, Notable Experiences on the Court, Evidence Issues.’

Justice Lee

Justice Lee is a Section Editor for ‘Class Actions’ in the Australian Law Journal.

Date	Activity
26 August 2018	Presented at the Law Council of Australia ‘2018 Corporations Law Workshop’.
25 September 2018	Presented at the IMF Bentham/University of New South Wales Class Action Conference entitled ‘Current Issues in Class Actions, including Access to Justice’.
22 October 2018	Presented at the Association of Litigation Funders of Australia conference entitled ‘Class Action and Litigation Funding Reform’.
26 February 2019	Presented the keynote speech at Herbert Smith Freehills discussion on the ALRC Report on Class Action Proceedings and Third-Party Litigation Funders.
27 February 2019	Panel member at joint seminar on ALRC Report into Class Actions and Litigation Funding.
5 March 2019	Presented at Grant Thornton annual event entitled ‘The Class Action Network’.
13 March 2019	Presented at the Association of Litigation Funders Australia Conference entitled ‘Civil Justice Reform’.
28 June 2019	Presented the keynote speech entitled ‘Case Management and Insolvency: Matching Rhetoric and Reality’ at the Australian Independent Insolvency Practitioners Annual Conference.

Justice Derrington

Date	Activity
3 July 2018	Judged the International Maritime Moot Competition.
24 October 2018	Chaired address to Celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the New York Convention in Brisbane.
4 April 2019	Chaired and judged the University of Queensland Vis Exhibition Moot.
24 June 2019	Chaired and judged the University of Queensland Law School Maritime Show Moot.

Justice Thomas

Justice Thomas is:

a Committee Member and Treasurer of the Council of Australasian Tribunals
a Board Member of l’Association Internationale Des Hautes Juridictions Administratives, and
the Editor of Thomson Reuters, Queensland Civil Practice.

Date	Activity
24 August 2018	Attended the Law Council liaison meeting.
7 September 2018	Attended the 2018 Council of Australasian Tribunals Conference and chaired a session titled ‘Using Emotional Intelligence to Enable a Successful Tribunal Hearing’.
3 October 2018	Chaired the judging panel for the AAT Moot Competition 2018 Grand Final.
6 December 2018	Chaired and addressed the Law Council of Australia’s Hot Topics Seminar.
28 February 2019	Met with Mr Arthur Moses SC, the President of the Law Council of Australia.
7 March 2019	Gave the keynote address at the AGS Administrative Law Forum 2019.
17 May 2019	Chaired and addressed the Law Council of Australia’s Hot Topics Seminar.
24–27 June 2019	Attended the 2019 Congress of l’Association Internationale Des Hautes Juridictions Administratives.

Justice Steward

Date	Activity
10 October 2018	Attended the Federal Circuit Court Plenary and gave a presentation on the giving of expert evidence.
12 October 2018	Attended the 6th Annual Victorian Tax Forum and delivered an address on ‘The Future of Tax Litigation in the Federal Court in the 21st Century’.
17 October 2018	Spoke to the younger members of the Tax Institute of Australia on ‘Tax Litigation: a view from the other side of the Bar table’.
9 November 2018	Attended the BLS Annual Tax Works in Tweed Heads NSW and presented the keynote address on ‘s 177D of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 (Cth)’.
29 November 2018	Attended and gave an address at the Tax Bar Association Annual Dinner.

Justice Banks-Smith

Justice Banks-Smith is:

the Chair of the Law Advisory Board for the University of Notre Dame Law School (Fremantle), and
the Chair of the Human Research Ethics Committee for Perth Children’s Hospital.

Date	Activity
20 July 2018	Attended the ceremonial farewell for the Wayne Martin AC as Chief Justice of Western Australia.
24 July 2018	Attended the business breakfast chaired by the Hon Wayne Martin QC hosted by Carmel School featuring Mark Leibler (Pan Pacific Hotel).
24 July 2018	Attended the ceremonial welcome for Justice Jennifer Smith to the Supreme Court of Western Australia.
3 August 2018	Attended the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators Conference Dinner.
4 August 2018	Attended the Law Society of Western Australia’s annual Black Tie Gala Dinner.
6 September 2018	Hosted and delivered a talk for students of Hale School involved in its Year 11 Leadership program.
13 September 2018	Conducted a workshop on expert evidence for members of Francis Burt Chambers.
18 September 2018	Delivered an address to the Gilbert +Tobin Women’s Circle Program.
20 September 2018	Attended the Women Lawyers of Western Australia ‘Meet the Judiciary’ event hosted by the Federal Court.
24–28 September 2018	Attended the Pacific Judicial Conference in Samoa as the delegate of the Federal Court and delivered a talk on mediations and a talk on the use of technology in the courts.
3 October 2018	Attended a Herbert Smith Freehills event to celebrate 150 years of its establishment in Perth.
5 October 2018	Attended the Western Australian Bar Association Bar and Bench Dinner.
10 October 2018	Attended and introduced the guest speaker for the Twilight Intellectual Property Seminar ‘One Size Does Not Fit All - Implied licences in copyright infringement cases and other matters that parties assume at their peril’ hosted by the Federal Court.
17 October 2018	Participated as panel member at the Piddington Society’s function for final year University students ‘Pizza, Piddington and thoughts from the Profession’ at UWA Law School.
24 October 2018	Chaired the United Nations Day Lecture for the 60th Anniversary of the New York Convention 1958–2018 at the Perth registry of the Federal Court.
31 October 2018	Attended dinner to welcome and farewell judges and District Registrar of the Western Australian registry.
15 November 2018	Attended event hosted by Francis Burt chambers for judges of the Supreme and Federal Courts.
26-30 November 2018	Hosted and supervised a summer clerk from Notre Dame University Law School for the WA Courts’ Summer Clerkship Program.
28 November 2018	Guest speaker on Federal Court jurisdiction at Women In Crime business group meeting.
29 November 2018	Attended the Women Lawyers of Western Australia End of Year event.
18 January 2019	Gave an address to the Piddington Society Graduates on resilience and longevity in the law.
20–24 January 2019	Attended the 2019 Supreme and Federal Court Judges Conference in Hobart.
31 January 2019	Attended a special sitting of the Federal Court for Western Australia’s 2018 Senior Counsel appointees.
31 January 2019	Attended the Supreme Court of Western Australia drinks function to celebrate the 2018 Senior Counsel appointments.
14–16 February 2019	Attended the sixth judicial seminar on Commercial Litigation and presented on case management in the Federal Court.
6 March 2019	Gave the keynote address at the Restructuring and Insolvency WA International Women’s Day Breakfast.
7 March 2019	Gave the keynote address at the Anglo-Australian Lawyers Society (WA) ‘Black Label’ Seminar Series – A Good Day in Court.
8 March 2019	Attended the Women Lawyers of Western Australia 2019 Honours Dinner.
25 March 2019	Chaired the Western Australian Bar Association CPD Program Session ‘Thorne v Kennedy [2017] HCA 49 – the latest from the High Court on undue influence, duress and unconscionability’.
29–31 March 2019	Advocacy coach at the Piddington Society 2018 Rottnest Island Conference.
5 April 2019	Panel speaker at the Piddington Society’s ‘Meet the Feds’ function.
10 April 2019	Guest presenter at the University of Notre Dame, School of Law, St Thomas More Law Awards night as Chair of the Law Advisory Board.
17 April 2019	Attended a pro bono counsel drinks function hosted by the Perth Federal Court judges to recognise their contribution.
26 April 2019	Attended a Supreme Court function to celebrate Justice Murphy’s 10 year judicial anniversary.
7 June 2019	Attended the ceremonial welcome for Justice Jennifer Hill to the Supreme Court of Western Australia.
11 June 2019	Presented a seminar on ‘Conflicts of Interest and Confidentiality’ in the Ethics and Practice Module of the Western Australia Bar Association’s Bar Readers’ Course.
14 June 2019	Attended the 2019 Judicial Appointments Celebration hosted by Solicitor General of Western Australia.

Justice Colvin

Date	Activity
23–27 July 2018	Attended the National Judicial Orientation Programme.
12 September 2018	Participated in Business Law Section Seminar ‘Companies, corporate officers and public interests: Are we at a legal tipping point’.
20 September 2018	Attended ‘Meet the Judiciary’ function of Women Lawyers of Western Australia.
18 October 2018	Presented ‘Conferral between counsel: Ethics and Obligations to each other and the Court’ for Western Australian Bar Association Spring CPD Programme.
23 October 2018	Presented at a seminar on Pleadings at Francis Burt Chambers.
5 April 2019	Participated in a ‘Meet the Feds’ event organised by the Piddington Law Society.

Justice O'Bryan

Date	Activity
9 April 2019	Participated in a Judges in Conversation series on ‘Artificial Intelligence and the Law: Challenges for Lawyers and Judges’ with Professor Karen Yeung. Organised by Melbourne University and held at the Federal Court.
10 April 2019	Presented at a LESANZ VIC breakfast seminar on ‘What the removal of the IP Safe Harbour from the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth) means for you’.
7 May 2019	Attended the Judicial College of Victoria Koori Twilight ‘Understanding Intergenerational Trauma and Family Violence in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities’.
13 June 2019	Attended a dinner with Melbourne judges organised by the Law Council Intellectual Property Committee.
26 June 2019	Attended the Judicial College of Victoria Law and Literature Koori Twilight ‘Bruce Pascoe on myth, culture, history and the law’.

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