Other Judicial Activity

As well as hearing and determining cases, Judges and Masters actively contribute, both in Australia and overseas, in matters touching upon the law and legal education. Their contribution includes activities such as presenting papers and speeches at conferences and seminars, submitting articles for publication, giving occasional lectures at educational institutions, meeting with judicial officers from courts around the world and hosting visiting delegations. Many Judges and Masters also serve as members of boards, commissions and committees for legal and cultural organisations within our wider community.


SPEAKING AND OTHER ENGAGEMENTS

The Judges of the Court have devoted considerable time to speaking at legal and quasi-legal forums during the year. The following list represents many of those engagements and, where applicable, shows publications arising from papers delivered.

The Chief Justice delivered many speeches throughout the year, several of which were published. These included:

• the address to the Opening of Law Term Dinner, organised by the Law Society of NSW, in Sydney on
29 January
• a paper titled Negligence - The Last Outpost of the Welfare State, delivered to the annual Colloquium organised by the Judicial Conference of Australia in Launceston on 27 April (published as “Negligence: The Last Outpost of the Welfare State” (2002) 76 Australian Law Journal 432 and “Negligence: The Last Outpost of the Welfare State” (2002) 14 Judicial Officers’ Bulletin 33)
• a paper titled The Maintenance of Institutional Values, organised by the State Library of NSW on 17 May (published as “The Maintenance of Institutional Values” (2002) 33 Library Automated Systems Information Exchange 91)
• a paper titled Convergence and the Judicial Role: Recent Developments in China, delivered to the China Education Centre at the University of Sydney on 11 July and to the XVIth Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law, held at the University of Queensland on 16 July
• the fourth address, titled Becket and Henry II: Exile, in the Becket Lecture Series delivered to the St Thomas More Society in Sydney on 8 October
• the address The Idea of a University, delivered to the Sesquicentenary Colloquium Dinner at the University of Sydney on 12 October
• the 2002 Lawyers Lecture on the topic, Are Lawyers Lemons? Competition Principles and Professional Regulation, organised by the St James Ethics Centre, in Sydney on 29 October (published by the St James Ethics Centre, Are Lawyers Lemons? Competition Principles and Professional Regulation (2002) 5)
• the Inaugural Australian Press Council Address on the topic Foundations of the Freedom of the Press in Australia, in Sydney on 20 November
• addressing the retirement ceremony for the Honourable Mr Justice Powell AM at the Supreme Court in Sydney on 8 November
• addressing the re-dedication ceremony of the Honour Roll in the old Supreme Court, King Street, in Sydney on 11 November.

The Chief Justice also presided over and addressed all admission ceremonies of legal practitioners. This year ceremonies were held in Sydney on 15 February, 5 April, 31 May, 12 July, 23 August, 4 October, 6 December and in Newcastle on 22 February.

Justice Michael Adams delivered speeches to:

• the Medico-Legal Society of NSW Dinner on The Star Chamber on 13 March
• a College of Law workshop on Criminal Advocacy on 17 March
• members of the North Metropolitan Law Society on behalf of the NSW Law Reform Commission on Projects of the Commission on 30 July
• the Annual Conference of Local Court Magistrates on Bail on 1 August
• the College of Law Spring Graduation on Law Teaching on 14 November.

He also participated as a judge at the University of New South Wales Law School Moot on 31 October.

Justice Austin delivered speeches throughout the year on a range of topics, including:

• a paper on The Takeovers Panel: Powers and Process at the Takeovers Forum at the Faculty of Law, University of Sydney, in Sydney on 28 February
• a paper, with Justice James Allsop of the Federal Court of Australia, on the topic Privilege in the College of Law’s Judges’ Series in Sydney on 7 March
• the opening address to the NSW Young Lawyers Annual Property Law Seminar in Sydney on 23 March
• opening remarks at the launch of the Corporate Law Guide to the NSW Young Lawyers Business Law Committee in Sydney on 21 October
• a lecture on Compulsory Acquisition for the Master of Laws Class at the Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales, in Sydney on 28 October
• a paper on Australian Takeovers in the Mergers and Acquisitions Section at the 75th Anniversary Congress, Union Internationale des Avocats, Sydney, 29 October 2002
• The Company Secretary: Then and Now to Chartered Secretaries Australia at its Celebration of the Centenary of the Grant of the Royal Charter held in Sydney on 19 November
• opening remarks at a seminar on Directors Duties and Financial Responsibilities, held at the Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales, in Sydney on 26 November.

Justice Barrett delivered keynote addresses at Law & Finance Australia’s annual Australian Insolvency Practice Symposium in Sydney on 7 May, and the Costs Assessors Rules Committee’s annual Costs Assessors Conference in Sydney on 23 May.

Justice Margaret Beazley delivered two speeches on appellate processes: one on Appellate Review of Current Issues for Trial Judges, delivered to the Compensation Court of NSW’s Annual Conference, organised by the Judicial Commission of NSW, held in Katoomba on 17 and 18 May; and the other on Appellate Advocacy, delivered to the barristers of 15th Floor Wardell Chambers as part of their Continuing Legal Education program, in Sydney on 16 July.

Justice Virginia Bell delivered:

• a speech to the “Friends of the Old Wollongong Court House” Dinner organised by the Wollongong Legal Aid office on 5 April
• the keynote speech and was also a session commentator at the 8th International Criminal Law Congress
in Melbourne on 5 October
• a speech to the Catholic Club at Wollongong on 18 October.

She also was a judge for the Sydney University Law Society/Minter Ellison Junior Mooting Competition in Sydney on 19 September.

Justice Bergin delivered speeches at the prize-giving ceremonies of the Division of Law, Macquarie University, on 8 April and the Faculty of Law, University of Wollongong, on 17 April. With Justice Sackville of the Federal Court of Australia, she gave a presentation on Time Management to the National Judicial Orientation Programme, a joint project of the Judicial Commission of NSW and the Australian Institute for Judicial Administration, in Sydney during October.

Justice John Bryson delivered papers to:

• the College of Law’s Continuing Legal Education Seminar on Affidavit Evidence, held in the Banco Court in Sydney on 14 February
• the Plantagenet Society of NSW on Law Reforms of Henry II in Sydney on 20 July
• the 2002 Environmental Law Conference of the Environmental and Planning Law Association (NSW) on Easements Ordered by the Court - s88K of the Conveyancing Act 1919, at the Sydney Opera House on 11 October.

He was the presiding judge with Justice Austin and Mr David Spencer on the University of Sydney Law Faculty’s and Macquarie University Law Faculty’s Sir John Peden Moot, held in the Banco Court in Sydney on 18 October.

Justice Campbell delivered a lecture about pleadings for the College of Law’s Judges’ Series, organised for solicitors in relation to practical litigation in the Supreme and Federal Courts, in Sydney on 28 February.

Justice Dowd was a guest speaker for:

• the Nepalese Australian Federation on the topic Role of Political Parties and Civil Society in Nepal, in Sydney on
23 February
• the Northern Metropolitan Law Society in Sydney on 24 September
• the inaugural International Human Rights Law Seminar, organised by the law firm Mallesons Stephen Jaques, on 25 November.

He was also a panel member and speaker at the forum How International Law Deals with Terrorism, at the University of Sydney Law School, Sydney, on 11 May and delivered a lecture to barristers for the NSW Bar Association on Human Rights and NGO Participation, in Sydney on 8 March and 20 August.

He was the presiding judge at the University of Western Sydney Law School Moot on 17 March and a member of the judging panel at the Manfred Lachs final Space Law Moot in Sydney on 6 April.

Justice Clifford Einstein gave the following presentations:

• Technology in the Courtroom to the NSW Bar Association in Sydney on
27 February and 22 August
• a lecture at the College of Law on The Commercial List, Aspects of the Evidence Act, in Sydney on 14 August
• a lecture at Macquarie University on Aspects of Trial Advocacy, The Evidence Act 1995 Revisited, in Sydney on 10 September
• as a joint presenter, on Evidence to the National Judicial Orientation Programme, a joint project of the Judicial Commission of NSW and the Australian Institute for Judicial Administration, in Sydney on 23 October.

Along with Justice Gummow of the High Court of Australia and Justice Palmer of the Supreme Court, he judged the Sydney University Final Year Moot in Sydney on 19 September. He also participated in mock equity exercises, which form part of the NSW Bar Association’s Bar Reading Course, in Sydney on 28 February.

Justice Giles was a co-presenter at the Judicial Administration and Reform Course conducted by the International Development Law Institute (now the International Development Law Organisation) for judges of Asian and South Pacific countries in Sydney on 10 June. He adjudicated the University of New South Wales Mooting Competition in Sydney on 31 October.

Mr Justice Michael Grove was a panel member at the Open Forum of the National Judicial Orientation Programme, a joint project of the Judicial Commission of NSW and the Australian Institute for Judicial Administration, in Sydney on 24 October.

Mr Justice Hamilton presented, as part of a panel, a paper on Electronic Filing – A Judge’s Eye View at the annual Supreme Court Judges’ Conference, organised by the Judicial Commission of NSW at Leura on 18 August.

Justice Howie delivered a paper titled Recent Trends in Criminal Law and the Commonwealth Criminal Code to the Supreme Court Judges’ Conference, organised by the Judicial Commission of NSW held at Leura on 16-18 August.

Justice D A Ipp gave the following speeches:

• an address to the Supreme Court of Western Australia’s education seminar on Appellate Court Judging: The New South Wales Experience, in Perth on 28 February
• a paper on Reforms to the Law of Negligence to Clayton Utz Solicitors, in Sydney during October
• an address to the Standing Committee of Attorneys General, which met in Fremantle on 7 and 8 November
• a paper on Review of the Law of Negligence: Competing Interests for the Doctor of Jurisprudence Lecture Series of the Melbourne University Law School, in Melbourne on 6 November
• to launch the Law Journal Forum entitled Reform of the Law of Negligence – Balancing Costs and Community Expectations, at the University of New South Wales, in Sydney on 16 December.

He also participated at the Australian Institute for Judicial Administration’s Technology Conference in Sydney on 20 October and was a panel member at the Open Forum of the National Judicial Orientation Programme, a joint project of the Judicial Commission of NSW and the Australian Institute for Judicial Administration, on Evidence in Sydney on 25 October.

Justice Greg James delivered lectures at the University of Sydney Law School in Sydney on 22 March and 7 August and, as a guest lecturer at a Defence Forces Advocacy Course, in Sydney on 26 July. He also participated in:

• in panel discussion for Law Week, in the Banco Court in Sydney on 15 May
• the National Judicial Orientation Programme, a joint project of the Judicial Commission of NSW and the Australian Institute for Judicial Administration, in Sydney on 24 October
• moots organised by Macquarie University on 27 April and 20 November, by the University of Technology Sydney on 23 May and by the law firm Henry Davis York on 19 September
• mock trials, organised by Sydney Grammar, in Sydney regularly during the year.

Justice David Kirby adjudicated at the University of New South Wales Law School Moot in Sydney on 31 October.

Justice David Levine presented papers titled Defamation Practice: Change and Reform to the University of New South Wales’ Continuing Legal Education Conference in Sydney on 15 March and Does our Defamation Law Strike the Right Balance? to the annual Supreme Court Judges’ Conference, organised by the Judicial Commission of NSW, at Leura on 18 August.

Justice Mason, the President of the Court of Appeal, presented the following papers:

• Church-State Dialogue in Contemporary Australia, delivered to the St Marks Institute in Canberra on 18 February
• Appellate Practice, at the NSW Bar Practice Course, organised by the NSW Bar Association, in Sydney on 19 March
• Unconscious Judicial Prejudice delivered to the New Zealand Judges’ Conference, held in New Zealand on 22 March
• Recurring Themes to the Annual Conference of the District Court of NSW, organised by the Judicial Commission of NSW, at Leura on 2 April.

Justice McClellan delivered:

• a lecture on Management of the Commercial List at the College of Law in Sydney on 21 August
• an address to the Annual Construction Industry Litigation and Arbitration Conference, in Sydney on 20 November
• the Occasional Address to the Construction Law Association Annual Dinner, in Sydney on 26 November.

Mr Justice Meagher gave a presentation to a Litigation Master Class, comprising partners and professionals from Sydney law firms, in Sydney on 23 September. He also spoke at the farewell dinner in honour of then Justice Priestley in Sydney on 19 April and at the G K Chesterton Society Annual Conference on 14 September. He delivered the Inaugural John Lehane Memorial Lecture on 24 September.

Mr Justice B S J O’Keefe presented many papers throughout the year, including:

• the keynote address on Inculcating and Maintaining Integrity to the Federal Police Integrity Programme, in Canberra on 14 March
• the keynote address The Heritage of Newcastle to the Newcastle Club on 16 March
• a paper on Human Rights in Sydney on 6 June
• a paper on The Rule of Law at the Annual Student Lecture Day for the Economics and Business Educators’ Association on 14 June
• the keynote address to the Institution of Surveyors in Sydney on 28 June
• a paper on Integrity in the Public Sector to the New Zealand Serious Fraud Squad, in Auckland, New Zealand, on 6 July
• a speech on Business Ethics at a seminar organised by the Edmund Ignatius Rice Institute, on 4 September
• an address on The Positive and Negative Influences of Behaviour of Superiors to Transparency International on 13 October
• the keynote address Uniting for Strength in Environmental Matters to the Wolli Creek Preservation Society, in Sydney on 25 October
• a paper on Le Defense du Defense, concerning the rights and obligations of lawyers to their clients, on the one hand, and to the court, on the other, to the Union Internationale des Avocats Conference in Sydney on 29 October.

He also chaired meetings of Interpol’s International Group of Experts on Corruption on 22 and 23 May in New York, USA, and on 9-11 October in Lyon, France, and as Chair of the 11th International Anti-Corruption Conference he presided at meetings on 8 and 9 July in London, UK, and on 13-15 October in Morocco. He headed a group that presented a seminar on Promoting Integrity and Fighting Corruption in the Public Service to the Regional Heads of the Supreme People’s Procuratorate of the People’s Republic of China, held in Guyiang, People’s Republic of China, on 18-21 November.

Justice Palmer delivered an address titled A Fair Go Under the Law at a service for the commencement of the law term at St Michael’s Cathedral in Wollongong on 29 January. Along with Justice Gummow of the High Court of Australia and Justice Clifford Einstein of the Supreme Court, he adjudicated the Sydney University Final Year Moot in Sydney on 19 September.

Justice Santow presented a paper titled Managing Management at the University – Clash of Cultures or Creative Interface? to the University of Sydney in Terrigal on 22 October.

Mr Justice Sheller delivered a paper titled Judicial Independence and attended the annual conference of the Industrial Relations Commission of NSW, organised by the Judicial Commission of NSW, at Sutton Forest on 3 May.

He also chaired the annual Colloquium organised by the Judicial Conference of Australia, held at Launceston on
26-28 April.

Mr Justice Stein gave presentations:

• at the United Nations Environmental Programme’s Forum for Pacific Island Judges on Environmental Law and Sustainable Development, held in Brisbane on 5-7 February – he was also a Mentor at this forum
• at the Queensland Planning and Environment Court Annual Conference on The Role of Environmental Commissioners and the Development of Environmental Law on 25 and 26 March
• at several sessions of workshops, organised for judges of the Supreme Court of Indonesia and Administrative Court, in Jakarta, Indonesia, from 29 July to 2 August
• on Mind the Gap: Problems of Compliance and Enforcement of Environmental Law at a conference organised by the World Conservation Union (IUCN), in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, on 20-22 August
• on the topic Law for a Sustainable World at the EnviroLaw Solutions conference, in Durban, South Africa on 23-25 August
• to staff at La Trobe University as a lecture on the topic A Social and Political Malaise?, in Melbourne on 10 October
• at (and chairing) the Open Forum Session at the National Judicial Orientation Programme for newly appointed judges from Australia and the South Pacific, organised by the Judicial Commission of NSW and the Australian Institute for Judicial Administration, in Sydney on 21-25 October
• on The Pitfalls of Judgment Writing to the NSW Administrative Decisions Tribunal Annual Conference, in Sydney on 21 November.

He also participated in the pre-World Summit for Sustainable Development (WSSD) Global Judges Forum on Rule of Law and Sustainable Development, attended by more than 130 judges from 61 countries, in Johannesburg, South Africa, on 18 and 19 August. At this conference he launched the world’s first Internet-based information and discussion forum for judges, called
the Judicial Portal.

He was also the presiding judge at the Macquarie University Mooting Finals in Sydney on 3 June.

Mr Justice Studdert delivered opening remarks at the University of New South Wales’ Faculty of Law Continuing Legal Education seminar on Professional Liability, in Sydney on 30 October.

Mr Justice Windeyer spoke at the annual dinner of the Accredited Wills and Estates Specialists, a group comprised of legal practitioners specialising in this area, in Sydney on 11 November.

Justice Anthony Whealy delivered an opening speech at the Four Courts in Dublin, Ireland, on 28 August on the occasion of the first sitting of an Australian Judge or court in that historic building.

Justice Wood, Chief Judge at Common Law, presented:
• a workshop on criminal trials to visiting Indonesian Judges, organised by the Judicial Commission of NSW, in Sydney on 12 March
• a paper on Forensic Sciences – Outcomes for Society at the 16th International Symposium on Forensic Sciences, held in Canberra on 13-17 May
• a paper on Police Corruption to the Integrity and Policing: Inaugural Australian Federal Police Investigators Course in Canberra on 19 September.

He was also a commentator on the presentation of Dr Peter Shea on Assessing the Credibility of Witnesses at the National Judicial Orientation Programme, a joint project of the Judicial Commission of NSW and the Australian Institute for Judicial Administration, in Sydney on 23 October.

Mr Justice Young, Chief Judge in Equity, delivered the introductory lecture to newly admitted NSW barristers on 28 February and 23 August and delivered a lecture on Court Etiquette in the College of Law’s Judges’ Series in Sydney on 14 March (published as “Court Etiquette” (2002) 76 Australian Law Journal 303). He attended the Inaugural Conference of the International Institute of Forensic Studies at Monash University Centre in Prato, Italy on 2-5 July.


DELEGATIONS AND INTERNATIONAL ASSISTANCE

The following Judges of the Court hosted delegations of visiting judges or provided assistance overseas.

The Chief Justice hosted delegations of senior judges from China. These included judges from the Beijing High People’s Court, Beijing First Intermediate Court and Beijing Second Intermediate Court on 1 March; judges from the High People’s Court of Guangdong Province, led by the Honourable Chief Justice Lu Botao, on 12 July; and judges from the High People’s Court of Shanghai led by the Honourable Chief Justice Teng Yilong on 23 October. A delegation of senior judges from supreme courts and appellate courts within the Asia Pacific Region, as part of a program organised by the International Development Law Institute based in Italy, met with the Chief Justice on 18 June.

Justice Wood and Justice Dowd met with a delegation of Judges from the Post-Release Supervision Board of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China, in Sydney on 11 March.

Justice Clifford Einstein hosted a delegation of Indonesian lawyers and delivered a paper on Technology in the Courtroom in Sydney on 7 May.

Justice Handley, in association with the Centre for Asia Pacific and European Law in the Faculty of Law of the University of Sydney, assisted with hosting a visit to Sydney by President He Qin Hua and Professor Li Xue Qin of the East China University of Politics and Law, Shanghai, between 18 and 28 July.
Also in association with the Centre for Asia Pacific and European Law in the Faculty of Law of the University of Sydney, he assisted with hosting the visit to Sydney during November and December of a delegation of judges and lawyers from the People’s Republic of Vietnam, headed by Mr Nguyen Van Thong, Rector of the Judicial Training School. The delegation included Mr Nguyen Van Nhan, a Judge of the Appeal Division of the Supreme People’s Court of Vietnam and Mr Ngo Van Thuan, a Judge of the Supreme People’s Court and other judges.

Justice McClellan participated in a judicial forum involving a series of discussions related to substantive practice and procedure in China and Australia, organised by the Beijing People’s High Court, Beijing, China, from 28 July to 2 August.

Mr Justice B S J O’Keefe chaired Interpol’s International Group of Experts on Corruption during the year. He also hosted a visit to Sydney by the President-Elect of the Union Internationale des Avocats, Maître Antoine Akl.

Mr Justice Stein presented a lecture for visiting Indonesian judges on the Australian legal system on 23 April and on the structure of Australian law on 17 October. He hosted a one-day orientation program on 7 May for 25 Indonesian judges visiting Sydney.


MEMBERSHIP OF LEGAL AND CULTURAL ORGANISATIONS

Justice Michael Adams chairs the NSW Law Reform Commission.

Justice Austin is a Lecturer (part-time) in Law at the University of Sydney for the Master of Laws courses in Takeovers and Reconstructions and Corporate Fundraising. He is also a member of the Takeovers Panel (Commonwealth government) and of the editorial boards for the International and Comparative Corporate Law Journal and the Company and Securities Law Journal.

Justice Barrett is a member of the editorial board of the Company and Securities Law Journal.

Justice Margaret Beazley chairs the NSW Chapter of the Australian Institute of Administrative Law and is a Committee Member of the Sydney Youth Orchestra.

Justice Virginia Bell is a Council Member and Board Member of the Australian Institute for Judicial Administration.

Justice Bergin chaired the Advisory Committee of the Faculty of Law, University of Wollongong, until May.

Justice Dowd is the President of the International Commission of Jurists (Australian Section), Chancellor of Southern Cross University, the patron of the St James Music Foundation (St James Church, Sydney), Goodwill Ambassador for the Spastic Centre of NSW and the Chair of the Executive Committee of the International Commission of Jurists (Geneva).

Justice Clifford Einstein is a member of the International Commission of Jurists.

Justice Giles is the Chair of the Law Advisory Committee of the School of Law and Justice at Southern Cross University and a member of the editorial board of the Insurance Law Journal.

Justice Handley is Chancellor of the Anglican Diocese of Sydney.

Justice Hodgson is a part-time Commissioner of the NSW Law Reform Commission and the Supreme Court representative on the Faculty of Law at the University of New South Wales.

Justice Howie is the Consulting Editor for the Criminal Law News (published by Butterworths).

Justice D A Ipp chaired the Panel of Inquiry into the Law of Negligence, held in Canberra from 2 July to 30 September, is a part-time Commissioner of the NSW Law Reform Commission, and a member of the CourtLink Steering Committee (established by the NSW Attorney General’s Department).

Justice Greg James is a director of the International Society for the Reform of Criminal Law, a member of the Institute of Criminology Advisory Committee, a member of the Southern Cross University Law Advisory Committee, President of the International Surfing Institute (a College of Southern Cross University) and a part-time Commissioner of the NSW Law Reform Commission.

Justice David Kirby is a part-time Commissioner of the NSW Law Reform Commission.

Justice David Levine chairs the Friends of the State Library of NSW and is President of the Arts Law Centre of Australia.

Justice Mason, President of the Court of Appeal, is Chancellor of the Anglican Diocese of Armidale. He was Visiting Professor at Macquarie University, Sydney, between August and November.

Mr Justice B S J O’Keefe is the President of the National Trust of Australia (NSW), a Trustee of the Sydney Harbour Federation Trust, a member of the Australian Council of National Trusts and a member of the Faculty of Law Advisory Committee at the University of Technology, Sydney.

Justice Santow is the Chancellor of the University of Sydney, a Board member of VisAsia (Art Gallery of NSW), a Board member of UK Friends of Bundanon (London), a member of the Takeovers Panel (Commonwealth government), a member of the International Council of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies at the University of London, a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University (during October and November) in Boston (USA), Occasional Lecturer in the Master of Laws Program at the University of New South Wales and a member of the Supreme Court Law Admissions Consultative Committee.

Mr Justice Sheller chairs the Judicial Conference of Australia.

Justice Carolyn Simpson chairs the Examinations Committee of the Legal Practitioners Admission Board.

Justice Sperling is the Treasurer and a Member of the Executive Committee of the Judicial Conference of Australia.

Mr Justice Stein is a Board member of the State Records Authority of NSW, chairs the Advisory Board at the Macquarie University Centre for Environmental Law, is an inaugural Board member for the Centre for Public Health Law in Melbourne and is a member of the Steering Committee for the National Judicial Orientation Programme (organised by the Judicial Commission of NSW and the Australian Institute for Judicial Administration).

Mr Justice Windeyer is a member of the Steering Committee of the Supreme Court and Federal Court Judges Conference.

Mr Justice Young, Chief Judge in Equity, is Chancellor of the Anglican Diocese of Bathurst and is a member of the Standing Committees of the Anglican General Synod and Dioceses of Sydney and Bathurst. He is also vice-patron of the Motor Neurone Society, patron of the Bus and Truck Museum, Honorary Secretary of the Shore School Council, a member of the Newcastle Law Faculty Advisory Board (which was abolished in a restructure during 2002), General Editor of the Australian Law Journal, Consulting Editor or a member of the editorial board of the Australian Bar Review, Australian Property Law Journal, Butterworths Conveyancing Service, Butterworths Property Reports and Newcastle University Law Review.

Master Harrison is a part-time Commissioner of the NSW Law Reform Commission.


COMMISSIONS IN OVERSEAS COURTS

Justice Handley sat as a Judge of the Court of Appeal of Fiji from 11 to 15 February.


PUBLICATIONS

The Honourable Justice J J Spigelman AC, Chief Justice of NSW
“Law and Justice Address” (2002) 11 Journal of Judicial Administration 123.
“Quality in an Age of Measurement” (2002) Quadrant, vol. XLVI, no. 3, 9.
“Foreword” in Geoff Lindsay and Carol Webster (eds), No Mere Mouthpiece: Servants of All, Yet of None (2002).
“Judicial Accountability and Performance Indicators” (2002) 21 Civil Justice Quarterly 18.
“Negligence: The Last Outpost of the Welfare State” (2002) 76 Australian Law Journal 432.
“The Maintenance of Institutional Values” (2002) 33 Library Automated Systems Information Exchange 91.
“China: Rule of Law or Rule by Law?” (2002) Quadrant, vol. XLVI, no. 9, 36.
St James Ethics Centre, Are Lawyers Lemons? Competition Principles and Professional Regulation (2002) 5.
“Foreword” in Jill Anderson, Jill Hunter and Neil Williams, The New Evidence Law: Annotations and Commentary on the Uniform Evidence Acts (2002).

The Honourable Justice Austin
Co-author, Ford’s Principles of Corporations Law (Butterworths, looseleaf).
With R Brown, “Voluntary Administrators as Fiduciaries”, in Ian Ramsay (ed), Key Developments in Corporate Law and Trusts Law (2002).

The Honourable Justice Handley AO
“A Closer Look at Henderson v Henderson” (2002) 118 LQR 397.
“Some Unsettled Aspects of the Hedley Byrne Doctrine and Commonwealth Perspectives” (2002) 31 Common Law World Review 177.
“When Maybe Means No” (Informal votes in a Referendum under section 128 of the Commonwealth Constitution), 14 Proceedings of the 14th Conference of the Samuel Griffiths Society 141, 15 June 2002.

The Honourable Justice Heydon
Co-author Meagher, Gummow and Lehane’s Equity: Doctrines and Remedies (4th ed, 2002).

The Honourable Justice Hodgson
“A lawyer looks at Bayes’ Theorem” (2002) 76 Australian Law Journal 109.

The Honourable Justice Howie
Co-author Criminal Practice and Procedure (Butterworths, looseleaf).

The Honourable Mr Justice Meagher
Co-author Meagher, Gummow and Lehane’s Equity: Doctrines and Remedies (4th ed, 2002).

The Honourable Mr Justice Stein AM
“Ecological Sustainability: Turning rhetoric into reality: some sustainable energy initiatives in Australia” (2002) 6 Rivista Giuridica Dell’Ambiente 847, Italy.

The Honourable Mr Justice Young, Chief Judge in Equity
“Court Etiquette” (2002) 76 Australian Law Journal 303.
Series of Notes on Current Issues and Recent Cases (2002) Australian Law Journal, Vol 76.