Current Legal Issues Seminars 2012

2012 Seminar Programme

  1. An action for (serious) invasions of privacy
  2. Pure economic loss: The problem of timing
  3. New directions in how legislators, courts and legal practitioners approach unconscionable conduct and good faith

An action for (serious) invasions of privacy

Date 7 June 2012
Speaker Professor Barbara McDonald, University of Sydney
Commentators Bruce McClintock S.C., Barrister-at-Law
Patrick McCafferty, Barrister-at-Law
Chair The Hon Justice Applegarth, Supreme Court of Queensland
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Pure economic loss: The problem of timing

Date 13 September 2012
Speaker Lord Walker of Gestingthorpe
Commentator The Hon Chief Justice Keane, Federal Court of Australia
Chair The Honourable Justice Maxwell, President, Court of Appeal, Supreme Court of Victoria
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New directions in how legislators, courts and legal practitioners approach unconscionable conduct and good faith

Date 18 October 2012
Speaker Professor Bryan Horrigan, Monash University
Commentator John McKenna S.C., Barrister-at-Law
Chair The Hon Chief Justice Paul de Jersey AC, Chief Justice of Queensland
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Lord Walker
Lord Walker of Gestingthorpe, a distinguished Justice of the United Kingdom Supreme Court since 2009, presented a paper in the series in September 2012.