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AIJA CONFERENCE 19-21 SEPTEMBER 2003

New Challenges, Fresh Solutions

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

FRIDAY 19 SEPTEMBER
Opening Reception - Government House, Perth
SATURDAY 20 SEPTEMBER
Keynote address 'Justice into the Twenty First Century - The Mind & the Law' Professor G. Allen German, Consultant Psychiatrist, Western Australia Chair: Justice Christopher Steytler, Supreme Court of Western Australia
Workshop Session 1
Stream A (Foley Hall) Dealing with the Criminally Insane Justice Margaret Wilson, Supreme Court of Queensland David Grace QC, Barrister, Victoria Susan Dusmohamed, Program Manager, Diversion Courts Program, South Australia Chair: Judge Mary Ann Yeats, District Court of Western Australia	Stream B (Lecture Theatre) The State of the Mind in Civil Matters Justice Robert French, Federal Court of Australia, Perth Justice David Hodgson, Court of Appeal, New South Wales Chair: Justice Virginia Bell, Supreme Court of New South Wales
The Courts & Corporate Conduct - how effective are we? (Foley Hall) Justice Neville Owen, Supreme Court of Western Australia Chair: Chief Justice David Malcolm AC, Supreme Court of Western Australia
Panel discussion (Foley Hall) Justice Neville Owen, Supreme Court of Western Australia Justice Kevin Lindgren, Federal Court of Australia, Sydney Justice Ruth McColl, Court of Appeal, New South Wales Berna Collier, Commissioner, Australian Securities and Investment Commission, Brisbane Barbara Gordon, Lecturer, Faculty of Law, The University of Western Australia Chair: Chief Justice David Malcolm, Supreme Court of Western Australia
Aboriginal Customary Law (Foley Hall) Cheri Yaru-Kama-Harathunian, Project Manager, Aboriginal Customary Law Reform, Law Reform Commission of Western Australia Beth Woods, Special Commissioner, Aboriginal Customary Law Project of the WA Law Commission Chair: Dr Neil Morgan, Director of Studies, Crime Research Centre, The University of Western Australia
Workshop Session 2
Stream A (Foley Hall) Reducing Reoffending - new initiatives in Europe on re-entry Hon. Jim McGinty MLA, Attorney General, Western Australia Chair: Chief Judge Kevin Hammond, District Court of Western Australia	Stream B (Lecture Theatre) Litigants in person Justice Robert Nicholson AO, Federal Court of Australia, Perth Richard Foster, Chief Executive Officer,Family Court of Australia Chair: Justice Sally Thomas AM, Supreme Court of Northern Territory
Workshop Session 2
Stream A - Therapeutic Justice (Foley Hall) Magistrate Hilary Hannam, Wagga Wagga Local Court Dr Michael King, Geraldton Magistrates' Court Chair: Steven Heath, Chief Stipendiary Magistrate, Magistrates' Court of Western Australia	Stream B - The Docket System- the way to go? (Lecture Theatre) Justice Arthur Emmett, Federal Court of Australia, Sydney Professor Ian Scott, United Kingdom Chair: Master Craig Sanderson, Supreme Court of Western Australia
SUNDAY 21 SEPTEMBER
Court Governance: Can justice be measured? (Foley Hall) Professor Philip Williams, Professorial Fellow in Law and Economics, Melbourne Business School Justice Geoffrey Davies AO, Court of Appeal, Brisbane Chair: Justice Linda Dessau, Family Court of Australia, Melbourne