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'Access to Justice - The Way Forward' Conference Papers
20th AIJA Annual Conference,
12-14 July 2002 (Brisbane)

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

ISSN 1448-0832

 

PROGRAM

Saturday 13 July 2002

0900

Conference welcome: Justice Murray Kellam President, AIJA

Official opening: Chief Justice Paul de Jersey AC Chief Justice of Queensland

0915

Convenor: Chief Judge Patsy Wolfe Chief Judge, District Court of Queensland

Keynote address: Revisiting access to Justice - Justice Ronald Sackville Federal Court of Australia, former Chairman Access to Justice Advisory Committee

1015

Morning tea

 

 

1045

Convenor: Justice John Byrne Supreme Court of Queensland

Improving access to justice for disadvantaged persons

Speakers: Ms Patricia Staunton AM Chief Magistrate, New South Wales

Mr Kevin Cocks Director, Queensland Advocacy Incorporated, Queensland (accompanying paper)

Ms Maria Dimopolous Consultant, Myriad Consultants, Victoria

Ms Ann Lyons President, Guardianship and Administration Tribunal, Queensland

1230

Lunch

 

 

1330

Convenor: Ms Di Fingleton Chief Magistrate, Queensland

Systemic changes: Why and how our civil justice system is moving closer to a European model

Speaker: Justice Geoff Davies Court of Appeal, Queensland (Powerpoint)

 

 

 

 

1400

Convenor: Mr Ron Ashton Executive Committee Member, Queensland Law Society

Some individual perspectives on access to justice

Panellists: Mr Gerry Murphy AM Murphy Schmidt Solicitors, Queensland

Mr Colin Neave Australian Banking Industry Ombudsman, Victoria (Powerpoint)

Dr David Molloy Specialist Medical Practitioner, Queensland (Powerpoint)

1500

Afternoon tea

 

 

1530

Venue: Grand Ballroom

Convenor: Justice Glen Williams Court of Appeal, Queensland

Courts and the public

Speaker: Mr Tony Abbott President, Law Council of Australia (The Hon Michael Lavarch spoke to the paper)

Courts and constitutions

Speaker: Mr Richard Naidu Partner, Munro Leys, Suva, Fiji (Powerpoint)

1645

Sessions conclude

 

 

Sunday 14 July 2002

 

 

 

 

0900

Convenor: Mrs Samantha Traves Faculty of Law, Queensland University of Technology, Queensland

Meeting the cost of litigation: Public and private funding issues

Speakers: Litigation: At public expense The Honourable Rod Welford MP Attorney General and Minister for Justice, Queensland

Paying the piper – Issues in private litigation funding Mr Martin Daubney SC Barrister, Queensland

The public interest and "rights" related litigation Mr Noel Pearson, Queensland

1015

Morning Tea

 

 

1045

Convenor: Professor Greg Reinhardt Executive Director, AIJA

The way forward

Panellists:

Ms Diana Bryant Chief Federal Magistrate

Ms Merran Lawler Director, Caxton Legal Centre, Queensland

Mr Louis Schetzer Law and Justice Foundation, New South Wales title

Mr Justice Ralph Zulman Supreme Court of Appeal of South Africa

1200

Conference concludes