Current Legal Issues Seminars 2011

2011 Seminar Programme

  1. What is the Point of Charity Law?
  2. The Personal Property Securities Act: Securities Law Isn't What it Used To Be!
  3. England as a Source of Australian Law - For How Long?
  4. Criminal Law Reforms - One Year On

What is the Point of Charity Law?

Date 20 July 2011
Speaker Dr Matthew Harding, Associate Professor, The University of Melbourne
Commentators Professor Myles McGregor-Lowndes, OAM, Queensland University of Technology
Dr Matthew Turnour, Partner, Neumann & Turnour
Chair The Hon Justice Hugh Fraser, Court of Appeal, Queensland
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The Personal Property Securities Act: Securities Law Isn't What it Used To Be!

Date 1 September 2011
Speaker Mr Craig Wappett, Partner, Piper Alderman
Commentator Professor Mike Gedye, The University of Auckland
Chair The Hon Justice P D McMurdo, Supreme Court of Queensland
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England as a Source of Australian Law - For How Long?

Date 6 October 2011
Speaker The Hon Justice Douglas, Supreme Court of Queensland
Commentator Professor Nick Gaskell, The University of Queensland
Chair Mr Shane Doyle S.C., Barrister-at-Law
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Criminal Law Reforms - One Year On

Date> 10 November 2011
Speaker His Honour Judge Butler AM S.C., Chief Magistrate, Queensland
Commentator Mr Peter Davis S.C., Barrister-at-Law
Chair Mr Anthony Moynihan S.C., Director of Public Prosecutions, Queensland
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