6TH AIJA TRIBUNALS CONFERENCE

6^TH AIJA TRIBUNALS’ CONFERENCE

5-6 June 2003

CONFERENCE PAPERS
ISSN 1448-0824

To access Conference papers: Please click on link to speaker's name (all papers are in rtf format)

THURSDAY 5 JUNE

12.00 - 1.45 pm	Registration; Light Lunch

2.00 pm	Welcome and Opening Justice Murray Kellam, Immediate Past- President, AIJA

2.10 pm	SESSION ONE COUNCIL OF AUSTRALASIAN TRIBUNALS (COAT)
	Chair: Judge Kevin O'Connor, President, Administrative Decisions Tribunal
	Speakers: Justice Murray Kellam, President, VCAT - report on general progress Mr Frank Clair, President, Mental Health Review Tribunal - report on Queensland Chapter Mr John Lesser, President, Mental Health Review Board of Victoria - report on Victorian Chapter Judge Kevin O'Connor and Justice Terry Sheahan, President, Workers Compensation Commission - Report on NSW Chapter Mr Michael Peedom, President, ACT Administrative Appeals Tribunal - Report on ACT Chapter Ms Trish McConnell, Principal Tenancy Adjudicator - Report on New Zealand Chapter

2.45 pm	SESSION TWO COUNCIL OF AUSTRALASIAN TRIBUNALS (COAT) - WORKSHOPS Background notes

3.30 pm	Afternoon Tea

4.00 pm	SESSION THREE RECENT DECISIONS OF INTEREST TO TRIBUNALS AND TRIBUNAL MEMBERS
	Chair: Ms Amanda Watt, Partner, Minter Ellison.
	Speaker: Professor Greg Reinhardt, Executive Director, AIJA.
4.45 pm	Close.


7.30 pm	CONFERENCE DINNER, Quality Hotel - Elizabeth Room Dinner Speaker: Justice Garry Downes AM, President, Administrative Appeals Tribunal

FRIDAY 6 JUNE

8.30 am	Registration Coffee/Tea
9.00 am	SESSION FOUR TRIBUNAL INDEPENDENCE - MAINTAINING PUBLIC TRUST AND CONFIDENCE
	Chair: Mr Paul Skinner, Chief Adjudicator, Weathertight Homes Resolution Service, New Zealand.
	Speaker: Dr Gabriel Fleming, Deputy President, Workers Compensation Commission, New South Wales PowerPoint presentation Commentators: Mr Mason Allen, Senior Member, Administrative Appeals Tribunal and Mr Richard Horsfall, Deputy President - Planning List, Victorian Civil & Administrative Tribunal

9.45 am	SESSION FIVE WORKSHOPS ON TRIBUNAL INDEPENDENCE

10.45 am	Morning Tea

11.15 am	SESSION SIX RECENT PUBLICATIONS OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW COUNCIL, INCLUDING PREPARING STATEMENTS OF REASONS Chair: Mrs Anne Coghlan, Deputy President - Anti-Discrimination List, VCAT Speaker: Mr Wayne Martin QC, President, Administrative Review Council.

12.30 pm	Lunch

2.00 pm	SESSION SEVEN
	Chair: Mr Keith Chapman, President, Guardianship and Administration Board, Western Australia
	Speakers: *TRIBUNAL FOR CONSUMER CLAIMS: THE MALAYSIAN EXPERIENCE* Ms Noor Azian Binti Shaari, Chairman, Tribunal for Consumer Claims Malaysia PowerPoint presentation *DEBT RECOVERY PLANS IN THE SMALL CLAIMS TRIBUNALS* Mr Gilbert Low, Magistrate/Referee, Small Claims Tribunal, Subordinate Courts, Singapore PowerPoint presentation

2.45 pm	SESSION EIGHT TRIBUNALS' POWER TO CONTROL THEIR OWN PROCEDURES AND THE REQUIREMENTS OF PROCEDURAL FAIRNESS: SOME ISSUES. Chair: Ms Trish McConnell, Principal Adjudicator, New Zealand Speakers: Ms Terese Henning and Mr John Blackwood, Law School, University of Tasmania

3.15 pm	Afternoon Tea

3.45 pm	SESSION NINE Chair: Ms Helen Wood, Chairperson, Anti-Discrimination Tribunal, Tasmania
	*DEVELOPING BENCH BOOKS FOR TRIBUNALS* Speaker: Mr Livingston Armytage, Director, Centre for Judicial Studies, New South Wales PowerPoint presentation WORKSHOPS
5.00 pm	Close