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Queensland Supreme and District Courts – Email Address Notification
To facilitate the timely distribution of same day transcripts for criminal proceedings by Auscript in the Queensland Supreme and District Courts, email addresses need to be provided on Appearance slips for the following criminal proceeding types:
- Trial or trial part-heard
- Hearing or hearing part-heard
- Pre-trial hearing
- Pre-recorded evidence
Email address information is required to be provided on the first day of a proceeding, and only on subsequent days if the distribution information changes.
If the required transcript is not received, please contact Auscript on 1800 287 274 or clientservices@auscript.com.au.
The Rule of Law and Human Rights in Sri Lanka
Date & Time: Wednesday 19 June, 6.15pm to 9pm
Speakers: Gordon Weiss and Professor Charles Sampford in discussion with you and forum Chair Stephen Keim SC
Venue: Claver Theatre at All Hallows, Ann St Fortitude Valley (onsite parking from Dodge
Lane of Boundary St ) www.eventfinder.com.au/venue/claver-theatre-all-hallows-school-brisbane
Cost: $20 ($15 concession) including supper
Booking: Online Bookings at http://www.eventbrite.com.au/event/6776752449/eivtefrnd#
Offline & Direct Deposit payment or invoice inquiry email Tia.Lancaster@amnesty.org.au
QCAT Customer Service Charter
QCAT has now developed its own customer service charter for its clients and stakeholders.The main purpose of a Customer Service Charter is to improve access to an organisation’s services and promote quality. The QCAT customer service charter aims to advise customers of the standards of service to expect and how to make contact. The charter helps employees too, by setting out clearly the services QCAT provides.
To access the QCAT Customer Service Charter please visit www.qcat.qld.gov.au.
Barcare Bootcamp 2013
The “Barcare Bootcamp” is a streamlined outdoor group fitness and optional nutrition solution for members of the Bar Association Queensland, recognising the necessity of structured exercise with sedentary individuals.
The bootcamp is run in an outdoors environment, located at Roma Street Parklands. This fitness group hosts a diverse range of people of legal experience and backgrounds. The structure of sessions is tailored to accommodate for different levels of health and fitness.
Barcare Bootcamp introductory 4 week challenge:
- Start date: 26/06/2013
- Finish date: 24/07/2013
- Wednesday 6:30am — 7:30am (Roma Street Parklands)
- Friday 6:30am — 7:30am (Roma Street Parklands)
Prospective and current members:
I invite you to bring a friend or college from your chambers down for a complimentary training session leading up to the next Barcare Bootcamp.
Cost: $25 per session (45mins)
Contact: Kent Cameron, Head Trainer, CBD FITNESS Holistic Corporate Fitness Solutions
Phone: Â 0452 336 099
Email: Â cbdfit@yahoo.com.au
Queensland Barrister Published in the LQR
Dr Louise Floyd has just been published in one of the world’s leading law journals, the Law Quarterly Review. Her publication “The Eelephant in the Room: The Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012” analyses the recent law reforms in the UK which attempt to modify the process by which governments conduct tenders so that community organisations (which advance the cause of the unemployed, disabled and minorities) have a better chance to win government work and therefore assist the very important work they do.
This publication flows from the MacCormick Lecture Dr Floyd presented when she was a MacCormick Fellow at Edinburgh University Law School in 2011 (and which was reported in Hearsay on her return to Australia). Dr Floyd’s other work in this regard has recently appeared in the Australian Business Law Review (which is Australia’s most cited journal) and she has written an OpEd for The Courier Mail.
Dr Floyd is a Barrister (Queensland Bar) and Director of Research at James Cook Unviersity Law School. In that latter capacity, she has presided over the Law School’s gaining a ranking of “at world standard” in the federal government’s leading reearch indicator/survey, Excellence in Research in Australia 2012.  Dr Floyd’s first job in law was as Associate to Hon Justice Margaret McMurdo.
After Williams Colloquium: University of Southern Queensland
Toowoomba, 4 October 2013
In 2012, the High Court of Australia decided Williams v Commonwealth. For the first time in Australia, the Executive was held to be constitutionally incapable of funding new programs in the absence of an enabling statute. The litigation has direct implications for the school chaplains program in government schools, and for Australian ‘church-state’ relations.
The After Williams Colloquium will be a forum for scholarly analysis of the decision, its immediate aftermath, and the future of legislative and executive power in Australia.
We invite scholars interested in any aspect of Williams to submit a proposal for a presentation on the decision or its implications. Those already speaking include –
- Professor Ian Leigh, Durham University, UK
- Professor Rex Ahdar, University of Otago, NZ
- Professor Nicholas Aroney, University of Queensland
- Dr Jeremy Patrick, University of Southern Queensland
- Professor Suri Ratnapala, University of Queensland
- Professor Anne Twomey, University of Sydney
- Mr Ronald Williams, Plaintiff in Williams v Commnwealth
For further information see the registration brochure.
