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Conference Schedule

Monday 23rd March

9am-9:30am : Opening Addresses

(via video link from the High Court of Australia)
The Hon Sir Gerard Brennan, AC
Chief Justice of Australia

The Hon Daryl Williams AM, QC, MP.
Commonwealth Attorney-General

Keynote Address
Professor Fred Lederer, Director
Courtroom 21 Project

Session Notes

11:00 Session One: Electronic Courts
Convenor : The Hon Justice James Wood, Supreme Court of New South Wales.

Judicial Philosophy in Information Technology Strategy, with video link to Court 26 at the Havelock Campus (Mr Foo Chee Hock, Senior Deputy Registrar, Subordinate Courts, Singapore)
The Royal Commission into the NSW Police Service (The Hon Justice James Wood)
Experiences in the Use of Technology in Court (Mr Michael Rozenes, QC)
The Estate Mortgage Court System (Hon Justice Tim Smith, Supreme Court of Victoria and Mr. Ian Chivers, Systematics Pty Ltd)

Session Notes

14:00 Session Two : Court Management and Support

The Phoenix System. A Case Management System.

Justice M.W. Campbell, Chief Judge of the Compensation

Court of New South Wales

Giulia Inga, Principal Courts Administrator,

Compensation Court of New South Wales

Peter Tierney, Manager Information Technology Branch

Compensation Court of New South Wales

Overview of Case Management Systems (Mr Jim McMillan, National Centre for State Courts, Williamsburg, Virginia USA)
Data Warehouse Applications in Court Management (Mr Giles Nunis, Department of Justice, Western Australia)
High Court of Australia - Case Management using Lotus Notes (Mr Tony de la Fosse and Dr James Popple, High Court of Australia) (the second link requires Adobe Acrobat reader)

16:00 Session Three-A : Transcripts from A - Z

Overview of Computerised Transcripts (Ms Vicky Harris, Director, Lexetch Pty Ltd)
Digital Audio Transcripts (Mr Dave Harrison, Future Technology Resources Pty Ltd)
Remote Transcripts (Department of Justice, Victoria) (presentation in PowerPoint 8)
Real-time Transcripts (Mr Chris Priestley, Ringtail Solutions Pty Ltd)

Transcripts Australia

        16:00 Session Three-B : The Benefit of Hindsight : A workshop on systems
        planning for courts
                Convenor : Mr Warwick Soden

An interactive workshop structured around a series of key issues relating to the planning and integration of technology in courts and linked organisations.
Panel Discussion involving judges, court administrators, and prosecution agency representatives.

Session Notes

Tuesday 24th March

        9:00 Session Four : Electronic Appeals and Judicial Support
                Convenor : The Hon Justice Michael Black, AC, Chief Justice of the Federal
                                   Court of Australia

Report on the Electronic Appeals Project (Council of Chief Justices of Australia and New Zealand / The Queensland Law Foundation) (obsolete link)
A Judicial Support System for the WA Supreme Court (Mr Shayne Talbot, The Department of Justice, Western Australia)
Judicial Support in New Zealand (Judge David Harvey, NZ)

Session Notes

11:00 Session Five : Videoconferencing - A Multi Purpose Tool

Introduction : The Federal Court of Australia (The Hon Justice Michael Black, AC)
An Interactive Presentation of Several Scenarios

Co-ordinated by the Department of Justice, Victoria, and included connection to remote courts, a remand centre, forensic laboratory, lawyers, expert witnesses.

14:00 Session Six-A : Law Firm Systems and Applications

Law Firm Applications (Mr Martin Telfer, Mallesons Stephen Jacques)
And International Intranet Application in a Big Law Firm (Mr Phil Farrelly, Clayton Utz, Victoria)
Future Directions in Big Law Firm Intranets (Mr Chris Priestley, Ringtail Solutions)

14:00 Session Six-B : Investigation and Litigation Support

The Bond Enquiry (Mr Stephen Hall, Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, Perth)
1998 : The year of excITement (Mr Jeffrey Soar, New Zealand Police)
Investigation Support in complex cases (Mr John Geurts, Australian Federal Police)
Using Technology to support Government Inquiries, Inquests, and Investigations (Mr Grahame Reynolds, Auscript)

16:00 Session Seven : Trade Presentations

Wednesday 25 March 1998

9:00 Session Eight-A : Legal Information
Convenor : Ms Alison Stanfield, Queensland Law Foundation

Finding the Law World Wide (Professor Graham Greenleaf, AUSTLII and University of NSW)
Standards and Guidelines for the Electronic Publishing of Legal Information (Ms Sandra Davey, Legal Information Standards Council / Foundation Law)
The New South Wales Judicial Information Research System (Mr Ernest Schmatt, Executive Officer, Judicial Commission of NSW)

9:00 Session Eight-B

: Issues and Ethics in Technology for Justice

Bordertown and the Globalisation of Justice (Ms Roseanne McInnes, Stipendiary Magistrate, South Australia)
Law and Technology Issues Paper (Alan Rose, President, The Australian Law Reform Commission) (links to an index of Word documents)
Looking Ahead (Mr Victor Perton, MP, Chairman, Law Reform Committee of Victoria)

11:00 Session Nine : Intranet and Extranet Applications

Directions in the Commercial World (Mr John Lloyd, Dun and Bradstreet)
The National Native Title Tribunal System (The Hon Paul Seaman, QC and Mr Peter Bennington )
Themis, Services to the Legal Profession (Ms Joanne Sherman, Queensland Law Foundation Services) (obsolete link)

Internet and the Law Society of NSW (Mr Derek Hamill, Law Society of NSW)

2:00 Session Ten : On The Launchpad

The Victorian Children's Court System (Mr Dan Muling, Deputy Chief Magistrate) (presentation in PowerPoint 8)
The Victorian Residential Tenancies Tribunal system (Mr Jim Nelms, Registrar, Residential Tenancies Tribunal) (presentation on PowerPoint 8)
The Digital World and its Impact on the Legal World (Mr Tony Sutherland, ESS Pty Ltd)

15:30 : Conference Close

Session Notes

Session Notes by Anne Wallace, Deputy Executive Director AIJA

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