Common Law Relief from Penalties: When Did it All Begin?
Format
5pm Registration
5.15pm The Chair, The Hon Justice Peter Flanagan, Supreme Court of Queensland, will introduce the speaker, Dr Peter Turner, and commentator, Professor Warren Swain, University of Auckland.
6.45pm Refreshments in the foyer
Abstract
The beginnings of curial relief from contractual penalties have drawn the attention of counsel and judges in modern litigation on the penalty doctrine. Roots have been traced to the activities of the old Court of Chancery and to the more obscure activities of the common law courts at Westminster - chiefly the King’s Bench. The earliness of common law intervention has influenced how appellate courts in Australia and England have stated the penalty doctrine for current times. This talk will consider when common law relief from penalties began, and the bearing those origins have on the pleading and decision of cases today.
CPD
This seminar is accredited for CPD purposes by the Queensland Bar Association, 1.5 CPD points in the Substantive Law strand.
Registration
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About Current Legal Issues Seminar Series
Launched in 2009, Current Legal Issues is a high profile series of seminars featuring leading national and international legal scholars, practitioners and members of the judiciary.
The series is a collaboration between UQ Law, the Bar Association of Queensland, the Queensland University of Technology Faculty of Law and the Supreme Court of Queensland Library. It seeks to bring together leading scholars, practitioners and members of the Judiciary in Queensland and from abroad, with a view to:
- providing a forum for the critical analysis and discussion of current legal issues
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Venue
Queen Elizabeth II Courts of Law
415 George Street
Brisbane