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18TH AIJA ANNUAL CONFERENCE
CARLTON HOTEL, DARWIN

14-16 July 2000

Conference papers
ISSN 1448-0832

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SATURDAY 15 JULY

8.00am Registration and Morning Tea/Coffee, Ballroom foyer, Carlton Hotel.

8.50 am Welcome by the Hon Justice Catherine Branson, Federal Court of Australia, President of the AIJA.

SESSION ONE

9.00 am Judicial Accountability

Convenor: The Hon Justice Michael Black AC, Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Australia.
Keynote Address - The Hon Mrs Justice Susan Denham, Supreme Court of Ireland.

10.00 am Morning Tea, Ballroom foyer, Carlton Hotel.

SESSION TWO

10.30 am Judicial Education

Convenor: The Hon Justice Alistair Nicholson AO, Chief Justice of the Family Court of Australia

Speakers: Mr Richard Moss, Director, Institute of Judicial Studies, New Zealand
Mr Chris Roper, Director, Centre for Legal Education, New South Wales
The Hon Justice Catherine Branson, Federal Court of Australia, AIJA President
Representative of the East Timor Judiciary

12.00 pm Judicial Benchmarking and Productivity

Convenor: Professor Greg Reinhardt, Executive Director, AIJA
Speaker: The Hon Justice Stephen O'Ryan, Family Court of Australia, with Mr Tony Lansdell, Consultant.

12.45 pm Lunch (venue to be advised) Carlton Hotel.

SESSION THREE

2.15 pm Courts and the Community

*Workshop 1 - Unrepresented Litigants*	*Workshop 2 - Communication and Culture*
Convenor: Mr Richard Coates, Director, Northern Territory Legal Aid Commission	Convenor: The Hon Justice Murray Kellam, Deputy President, AIJA
Panel participants: The Hon Justice RD Nicholson, Federal Court of Australia Mr Gordon Renouf, Director of the Northern Aboriginal Legal Service The Hon Justice Deirdre O'Connor, President of the Commonwealth Administrative Appeals Tribunal	Panel participants: Her Hon Judge Margaret O'Toole, Compensation Court of New South Wales Ms Josephine Akee, Torres Strait Islander Family Consultant to the Family Court of Australia Ms Therese McCarthy, Director, Community Relations, Federal Court of Australia.

3.30 pm Afternoon Tea, Ballroom Foyer, Carlton Hotel.

SESSION FOUR

4.00 pm An Irish Litigation Solicitor's Perspective on the Judiciary

Convenor: Master Terence Coulehan, Supreme Court of the Northern Territory
Speaker: Mr Michael O'Mahony, McCann FitzGerald, Solicitors, Dublin, former President of the Law Society of Ireland

5.00 pm Close

7.00 for Conference Dinner
7.30pm Venue: Botanic Gardens, Gilruth Avenue
Speaker: The Hon B F Martin AO MBE, Chief Justice of the Northern Territory.

SUNDAY 16 JULY

9.00am Tea/Coffee, Ballroom foyer, Carlton Hotel.

SESSION FIVE

9.30 am Governing the Courts
Convenor: The Hon Justice Sally Thomas, Supreme Court of the Northern Territory
Speakers: Professor Peter Sallmann, Crown Counsel for the State of Victoria
Mr Laurie Glanfield, Director-General of the Attorney-General's Department, New South Wales
Ms Diane Fingleton, Chief Magistrate of Queensland
Ms Julie Baker, Deputy State Courts Administrator, South Australia

11.30 am Morning Tea, Ballroom foyer, Carlton Hotel.

12.00 pm Conference Closure