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Leeming JA
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Knowledge and Approval: The Complex Interplay between Statute and Judge-Made Law
Leeming JA
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Succession Law
Swearing in Ceremony of the Hon Justice A S Bell as Chief Justice of NSW
Bell CJ
March 2022
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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 |
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 |
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 |
30 Jan 2008 | Swearing-In Ceremony of the Honourable Lucy McCallum | 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 |
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 |