Seminar on two recent cases raising important questions concerning the interface between the Constitution and national security imperatives. About this event Chair The Hon Alan Robertson SC, former Judge of the Federal Court of Australia, President of the Australian Academy...

Description We are privileged to welcome the Governor of New South Wales, Her Excellency the Hon Margaret Beazley AC QC, formerly the President of the NSW Court of Appeal, to present an address on the constitutional issues arising out of...

This event is a special expert panel discussion of the recent decision of the United Kingdom Supreme Court in the Prorogation Case: R (Miller) v Prime Minister; Cherry v Advocate-General for Scotland [2019] UKSC 41. Catch up on the decision...

2015 Constitutional Law Conference and Dinner A major conference on constitutional law, the fourteenth in a series, will be held at the Art Gallery of New South Wales on Friday 13 February 2015. The event is organised by the Gilbert...

Sir Anthony Mason Lecture in Constitutional Law 12 February 2015 BOOKED OUT: Please email to be placed on the waiting list. _______________________________________________________________ Speaker: The Hon Justice S J Gageler Topic: Lord Bryce and the Australian Constitution About the Speaker Stephen...

This annual seminar will provide an outline of recent constitutional developments in several overseas jurisdictions that are of key interest to Australian constitutional lawyers. Experts from each jurisdiction will report on three of four major constitutional cases argued or decided...

Paper presented by Mr Brendan Lim (Visiting Fellow, UNSW Law School, Wentworth Chambers) In accordance with the "principle of legality" or "clear statement principle", courts will not construe statutes to abrogate certain common law rights unless very clear words require...

Paper presented by Professor Jeremy Gans (Melbourne Law School): Last year, Dr Gabrielle Appleby examined the past, present and future of state law and order regimes and concluded that the High Court's Kable doctrine may have killed off State experiments...

Panel On The Unions Of Nsw Political Finance Case In Unions of NSW v NSW [2013] HCA 58, the High Court found two sections of the Election Funding, Expenditure and Disclosures Act 1981 (NSW) invalid for impermissibly burdening the freedom...

This annual seminar will provide an outline of recent constitutional developments in three jurisdictions — the United States, Canada and New Zealand — that are of key interest to Australian constitutional lawyers. Experts from each jurisdiction will report on three...