Latest speeches
“There and back again – the last quarter of a century” Opening Keynote Address for ALAANZ conference
Leeming JA
May 2023
Kimpton Margot Hotel, Sydney
Book Review Essay of “Understanding the Law of Assignment”
Leeming JA
May 2023
Journal of Contract Law
Penalties in Australia, the United Kingdom and Singapore – Storm-warnings, statutes and style
Leeming JA
October 2022
Australian Bar Review
Speeches archive
Date | Speech | Venue |
12 Nov 2018 | Major James Whiteside Fraser McManamey – Remembrance Day Address | Supreme Court of New South Wales |
8 Sep 2018 | Sir Anthony Mason Oration | Blue Mountains Law Society 2018 Succession Conference |
1-3 Sep 2018 | Of Singaporean yachts, Chilean Ponzi schemes, and the Italian merchant marine (among others): An update on cross-border insolvency law in Australia | 35th Annual BFSLA Conference in Queenstown, New Zealand |
1-3 Sep 2018 | Australian Appellate Decisions in Insolvency Law: Recent Updates | 35th Annual BFSLA Conference in Queenstown, New Zealand |
21 May 2018 | Integrated Diversity in the Legal Profession | Iftar Dinner |
7 Jun 2017 | Women’s Leadership – Keynote Address | The Australian Women’s Leadership Symposium |
05 Oct 2014 | Criminal Sessions: Discriminating Laws | LAWASIA 27th Conference, Bangkok |
05 Sep 2014 | War is not the Answer – The Ever Present Threat to the Rule of Law | World Bar Conference |
03 Sep 2014 | What’s in a Name? | New South Wales Young Lawyers State of the Profession Address |
29 May 2014 | Legal Capacity Then and Now: The Potential Repercussions of Neuroscientific Studies | STEP Conference |
24 Mar 2012 | Costs | Banking and Financial Services Law Association Conference |
15 Aug 2010 | Penalties and the Protection of Freedom of Contract | Banking and Financial Services Law Association Conference |
29 Sep 2008 | Swearing in Ceremony of the Honourable Julie Kathryn Ward | Supreme Court of New South Wales |
Date | Speech | Venue |
30 October 2020 | Environment and Planning Law Association Conference 2020: Court of Appeal Update | Supreme Court of New South Wales |
08 Sep 2008 | Swearing-In Ceremony of the Honourable Robert Bruce Scott Macfarlan QC | Supreme Court of New South Wales |
Date | Speech | Venue |
4 December 2019 | Getting the Meaning Right – The Correct Approach to Interpreting Insurance Contracts | Australian Insurance Law Association |
28 February 2018 | NSW Bar Association – “Insurance and the Courts” | Commercial Law Section, NSW Bar Association |
28 Apr 2017 | The Insurance Contracts Act – Good Faith, Contracting Out and Refusing Claims | Kenneth Sutton Inaugural Insurance Lecture |
10 Aug 2011 | Swearing-In Ceremony of the Honourable Anthony John Meagher, SC | Supreme Court of New South Wales |
Date | Speech | Venue |
15 November 2017 | Proscriptive and prescriptive duties: is the distinction helpful and sustainable, and if so, what are the practical consequences | Supreme Court Corporate and Commercial Law Conference |
29 Apr 2013 | Swearing in Ceremony of the Honourable Justice Fabian Gleeson | Supreme Court of New South Wales |
Date | Speech | Venue |
3 Nov 2017 | Macarthur Legal Centre 30th Anniversary | Sydney |
20 Oct 2017 | Recent Appeals from the Land and Environment Court | EPLA Conference |
30 Mar 2016 | Swearing-In Ceremony of the Honourable Anthony Payne, SC | New South Wales Supreme Court |
Date | Speech | Venue |
17 Mar 2017 | Insolvent Trusts: Implications of Buckle and CPT Custodian | Toongabbie Legal Centre |
18 Oct 2014 | Advocacy and Ethics: The Self-Represented Litigant | |
15 Nov 2011 | Use of Extrinsic Evidence to Construe Wills | Law Society of South Australia, Succession Law |
30 Oct 2010 | Overview of the Evidence Act | |
21 May 2010 | Trusts – An Australian Perspective | New Zealand Institute of Judicial Studies Higher Courts Seminar |
Aug 2007 | The Nature of a Beneficiary’s Equitable Interest in a Trust | Supreme Court of NSW Annual Conference |
27 Apr 2004 | Swearing-in Ceremony of the Honourable Richard Weeks White | New South Wales Supreme Court |
Date | Speech | Venue |
12 Mar 2012 | Swearing-in Ceremony of the Honourable Justice Robert Beech-Jones | Supreme Court of New South Wales |
Date | Speech | Venue |
28 March 2022 | Swearing in Ceremony for the Honourable Anna Margrit Mitchelmore | New South Wales Supreme Court |
Date | Speech | Venue |
27 Mar 2018 | Farewell Ceremony for the Honourable Justice Carolyn Simpson Upon the Occasion of her Retirement as a Judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales | New South Wales Supreme Court |
01 Feb 1994 | Swearing in Ceremony of the Honourable Carolyn Chalmers Simpson QC | New South Wales Supreme Court |
Date | Speech | Venue |
10 November 2020 | The Richard Davies QC Memorial Lecture presented to the Personal Injury Bar Association, United Kingdom on 10 November 2020: “Loss of a Chance” | Personal injury Bar Association – UK |
20 Jun 2018 | Newcastle Court of Appeal Sittings – Open Ceremony | Newcastle |
21 June 2017 | Section 36 of the Civil and Administrative Tribunal Act 2013 (NSW) – The Guiding Principle | NCAT Twilight Seminar |
11 Mar 2017 | Personal Injury – Contributory Negligence | New South Wales Bar Association: Common Law Conference |
03 Mar 2016 | Judicial review in State Jurisdiction | Australian Institute of Administrative Law: NSW Chapter Seminar |
04 Nov 2015 | Modern Judicial Review – An Overview | Western Australian Bar Association CPD Conference: |
24 Jul 2015 | Constitutional Dimension of Statutory Interpretation- | Constitutional Law Conference |
13 Jun 2015 | Reliability of Evidence – Judge or Jury? – A New South Wales View | Evidence Act 1995 (NSW) – 20th Anniversary Symposium |
13 Feb 2015 | Constitutional Law in the Federal and State Courts in 2014: the Judiciary and the Legislature | Gilbert + Tobin Centre Of Public Law Constitutional Law Conference |
21 Aug 2014 | Book Launch – Rayner Thwaites ‘The Liberty of Non-Citizens: Indefinite Detention in Commonwealth Countries’ | Faculty Of Law, Sydney University |
20 Jun 2013 | The Scope of Power: Determining the Limits | AGS Administrative Law Conference |
17 Apr 2013 | Judging Community Standards and Mores | Roseville Rotary Club |
28 Mar 2012 | Lecture on Judicial Review | Faculty of Law: University of NSW |
25 Jan 2012 | Jurisdictional Error After Kirk: Has it a Future? | Supreme and Federal Court Judges’ Conference |
2011 | The Supervisory Jurisdiction of Supreme Courts | Australian Law Journal |
19 Jul 2011 | Procedural Reform: The New Part 10 – A Paper on Representative Actions in the Supreme Court | Delivered to Judges of the Court |
06 May 2011 | Judicial Review: Grounds, Standards & Intensity Of Review Or Who Is Miss Behavin?“ | Land and Environment Court of NSW Annual Conference |
27 Apr 2011 | Court of Appeal Review and Appeals in the District Court | The District Court of NSW Annual Conference |
07 Oct 2010 | “Standards of Review” – An Australian Perspective | Canadian Federal Court And Federal Court Of Appeal Annual Education Seminar |
11 May 2010 | International Influences on Domestic Law: Neither Jingoistic Exceptionalism nor Blind Servility | The Community of Law: Law’s Dependence on Social Values Lecture Series |
07 May 2010 | Jurisdiction and Powers of Tribunals: A Question of Statutory Construction? | Council of Australasian Tribunals (NSW) Annual Conference |
09 Mar 2010 | Comment on Paper “Constitutional Issues and the Strength of Aboriginal Property Rights” by Sean Brennan | Australian Association of Constitutional Law |
31 Mar 2009 | Judicial Review, Statutory Interpretation and Compensation | Australian Government Solicitor/Sydney Law School: Excellence In Government Decision-Making Course |
Sep 2008 | International Conventions and Administrative Law | New South Wales Young Lawyers
CLE Seminar Series |
26 Jun 2008 | Administrative Law and Statutory Interpretation | Australian Institute Of Administrative Law |
09 May 2008 | Judicial Review: Intensity of Scrutiny | Land And Environment Court Conference |
03 Apr 2008 | Human Rights and the Rule of Law | The 2008 Sir Ninian Stephen Lecture – University of Newcastle |
26 Mar 2008 | Administrative Law – A Perspective from the Bench | New South Wales Young Lawyers Continuing Legal Education Seminar |
15 Jun 2007 | Natural Justice: Is There Too Much, Too Little or Just the Right Amount? | National Administrative Law Conference |
26 May 2006 | A Curious History of the Mabo Litigation | Native Title Conference 2006: Tradition and Change |
04 Nov 2005 | Court and Media Relationships | National Judicial College, Beijing, Conference |
04 Nov 2005 | Judicial Conduct: Relationship with Government | National Judicial College, Beijing, Conference |
04 Nov 2005 | Judicial Attributes | National Judicial College, Beijing, Conference |
30 Jun 2005 | Limits on Procedural Fairness | AIAL Administrative Law Forum |
02 May 2005 | Swearing in Ceremony of the Honourable John Basten QC as a Judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales | Supreme Court of New South Wales |
Date | Speech | Venue |
27 May 2022 | ‘Apprehended Bias and the Personal Injury Commission’: Address at the Personal Injury Commission’s Annual Member Conference 2022 | Personal Injury Commission’s Annual Member Conference 2022 |
19 May 2022 | ‘Judicial and Administrative Review of Non-Statutory Executive Power’: Keynote Address at the Land and Environment Court Annual Conference 2022 | Land and Environment Court Annual Conference 2022 |