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- Terrie Bousquin is the Chief
Information Officer for the New Mexico State Judiciary, responsible for automation
throughout the trial and appellate courts.
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- In New Mexico, she has provided
leadership for implementation of a statewide trial court client server application
in 90 sites, appellate system automation in 3 sites, electronic filing of
criminal and juvenile cases, free public access to trial court dockets through
a web page and data warehouse, and protective order and child support order
registries.
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- Before joining the New Mexico
judiciary in 1995, she was a manager in information technology consulting
firms, with a focus on design and development of integrated criminal justice
information management systems throughout the country. She began her career
in automation in the mid-70’s in a large juvenile and domestic relations
court.
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- Ms. Bousquin is currently
involved in national initiatives related to integrated justice systems and
the use of XML for data sharing among justice entities.
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The
Honourable Justice Neil John Buckley
New Zealand Judge
David Harvey is a Judge of the District Court of New Zealand and
sits at Otahuhu in Auckland. He holds warrants for general, jury
and Youth Court Jurisdictions. Judge Harvey studied at Auckland
University where he graduated LLB in 1969. He completed a Master
of Jurisprudence degree from the University of Waikato in 1994.
Judge Harvey was
involved in general litigation practice with an emphasis
initially upon criminal work and latterly upon family and
commercial litigation and practiced in Hamilton and Auckland. He
was appointed to the bench in 1988.
Judge Harvey's
interest in computers and Information Technology commenced in
1980 and he was involved in the introduction of word processing
and computer based trust accounting and practice management
systems to his firm whilst in practice. He has been actively
involved in the introduction of Information Technology for the
Judiciary since 1990 and has consulted formerly with the
Department of Justice and subsequently with the Department for
Courts on behalf of the District Court.
He was actively
involved in the design and development of the Judicial
Workstation, a litigation support and information program
designed for use by the New Zealand Judiciary. He is also a part-time
lecturer at Auckland University.
Sally Kay,
Information Technology Advisor, Law Society of NSW.
Sally Kay is the
Information Technology Adviser for the Law Society of NSW. This
position involves advising the NSW legal profession on
information technology; managing Law Society Online, the Law
Society's Website; and project managing Internet based projects.
Her prior roles involve practising as a solicitor in a large
commercial law firm, working as a project manager for a legal
software company and working as a business consultant in
Australia and the UK.
Mr Richard Lau,
Principal Director (Corporate Services),
Singapore Subordinate Courts.
Mr Richard Lau is the
Principal Director (Corporate Services) in the Singapore
Subordinate Courts. In this capacity he has overall
responsibility for the administrative functions of the Courts,
including personnel, finance, building management and services,
public affairs and communications, and research and statistics.
Concurrently, Mr Lau is also the Chief Information Officer and in
this capacity he is responsible for the Courts' computer and
information technology systems. Ninety-five percent of all cases
entering the Singapore judicial system are heard in the
Subordinate Courts.
Jennifer
Lazberger
Manager, Chief Justice’s Chambers,
Supreme Court of Western Australia
Ms Jennifer
Lazberger is Manager, Chief Justice’s Chambers to Chief
Justice David Malcolm AC at the Supreme Court of Western
Australia. She has worked for Chief Justice Malcolm since July
1991. Ms Lazberger has been heavily involved over the last
nine years in the development and implementation of the Court’s
judicial support systems which include the Judgment Processing
System, Decisions Databases and the Electronic Trial and Appeal
Book project. She is also involved in the development of the
Court’s Internet Home Page. Ms Lazberger has also served on
various Court’s IT committees.
Ms Lazberger
is a member of the Council of Chief Justices’ Electronic
Appeals Working Party and is also a member of the AIJA’s
Technology Protocols Steering Committee. Ms Lazberger was the
project leader for the development and implementation of the
Supreme Court’s electronic judgment processing system which
was installed in April 1999 and which has been implemented into
other courts and tribunals throughout Western Australia.
The
Hon David K Malcolm AC
Chief Justice of Western Australia
The Hon David
Kingsley Malcolm AC was appointed Chief Justice of Western
Australia in 1988. In 1990 he was appointed Lieutenant Governor
of Western Australia. In 1992 he was made a Companion of the
Order of Australia. He graduated with an LL.B from the University
of Western Australia in 1959 with first class honours and was
Rhodes Scholar from Western Australia in 1960. In 1962 he
obtained his BCL at Oxford with first class honours. He was
admitted to practice in 1964. He was a partner with the firm of
Freehill Hollingdale & Page and its predecessor firm in Perth
from 1964 to 1979. He acted as Counsel and Deputy General Counsel
for the Asian Development Bank based in Manila between 1967 and
1970. He practised widely in many areas of the law including
commercial and corporate law, mining, media, shipping and
administrative law. He was Chairman of the Law Reform Commission
of Western Australia in 1976 and from 1979 to 1982 and a member
of the Copyright Tribunal from 1979 to 1982. He was Queen's
Counsel from 1980 to 1988, President of the Western Australian
Bar Association from 1981 to 1984 and Vice-President of the
Australian Bar Association in 1984. He was Vice-President of the
Law Society of Western Australia from 1986 to 1988 and Chairman,
Town Planning Appeals Tribunal from 1978 to 1986. He has been the
Chairman of the Judicial Section of the Law Association for Asia
and the Pacific since 1991. He has been a member of LAWASIA since
1968. He is the Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Crime
Research Centre at the University of Western Australia, President
of the Western Australian Branch of the International Commission
of Jurists and a member of the Board of Directors of the Society
for the Reform of Criminal Law.
Sue Scott is the
Director of the Online Legal Access Project (OLAP). OLAP is a
project of the Law Foundation of NSW and involves a number of
research and policy initiatives designed to improve the
accessibility and quality of online legal information. These
include researching user needs, developing a metadata enabled
legal search engine, and developing standards for online legal
information.
Sue provides
secretariat support to the Legal Information Standards Council, a
body concerned with developing standards for and increasing
access to online legal information. She is also the co-chair of
Legal XML Australia.
Current OLAP
initiatives include: Best Practice Guidelines for Australian
Legal Web sites; Lawzone: a metadata legal search engine;
Guidelines for providing legal information and advice via email;
and promoting standards for legislation and judgments.
Sue is particularly interested
in equity of access to information and the role that online technologies can
play in this. She is currently undertaking her Masters of Adult Education thesis
looking at how community agencies access and use legal information. Sue has
extensive experience in online training, information management and delivery
of information services.
Contact
details
Sue Scott, Director, Online Legal Access Project, Law Foundation
of NSW
email: sscott@lawfoundation.net.au
Tel: (02) 9221 3900
Fax: (02) 9221 6280
http://www.lawfoundation.net.au/olap
Allison Stanfield
Principal
Consultant, eLaw Australia
Allison is a qualified solicitor
with experience in the use of information technology,
particularly in relation to litigation. She holds Bachelor and
Master of Laws degrees from QUT and is presently studying towards
a Master of Information Technology (Research).
Allison is a Director of eLaw
Australia, an independent legal/IT consulting organisation. eLaw’s
projects have included:
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- Drafting a Practice Note on
the Use of IT in Civil Litigation for the Federal Court
of Australia;
- Consulting to the Federal
Court of Australia on electronic filing;
- Project managing Idoport v
NAB litigation in the Supreme Court of NSW;
- Project managing the
Glenbrook Inquiry in Sydney;
- Preparing national data,
technical and privacy standards for ATSIC;
- Consulting to the NSW
Attorney-General's Department in relation to the use of
software and associate services for the AG's Technology
in the Courtroom project;
- Consulting to Strategic
Business Consulting in relation to the design and
implementation of a case management system for the Fair
Trading Tribunal (NSW).
As Registrar of the Court of
Appeal (Qld) between 1996 and 1997, Allison was directly
responsible to The Hon. Justice Tony Fitzgerald AC and was
involved with the further development of the Court's case
management system and other IT initiatives within the Court, such
as an electronic filing pilot between the Court and the Legal Aid
Office.
During 1998, Allison was seconded
by the Court of Appeal (Qld) to the QLF Technology Services Pty
Ltd where she worked on the Council of Chief Justices Electronic
Appeals Project and was co-author of the Final Report to the CCJ,
the recommendations of which were all endorsed by the CCJ. During
this time, Allison was also involved in the THEMIS project where
she initiated several new services.
Allison taught part-time for many
years at QUT Law School and was recently appointed Senior Fellow
to the University of Melbourne's Law School, Postgraduate Studies.
Allison has published widely, more recently focusing on the
application of information technology to the legal process. In
recognition of her knowledge in this area, Allison was asked to
sit on an IT working committee for the Australian Law Reform
Commission's review of the Federal Adversarial System.
Allison is co-Chair of Legal XML
Australia; Legal XML is an international organization that
promotes the development of open, non-proprietary standards for
electronic legal documents.
Tony
Sutherland, National Manager, Court Solutions of LawNow Ltd.
Tony
Sutherland is National Manager, Court Solutions of LawNow
Limited, a national legal and justice software company. LawNow
provides solutions, products, tools and services to the legal and
justice markets, for organisations of all sizes.
In the more
than twenty years that Tony has been involved with the
information industry, he has provided services to a wide range of
clients in Australia and overseas, including: Justice and legal
related organisations (including the WA Ministry of Justice,
Family Court of Australia, Federal Court of Australia, WA Police
Service, Royal Commissions, the Australian Securities Commission,
the State Law Publisher, the Legal Aid Commission and many law
firms); schools; financial investment institutions; insurance
companies; computer vendors; software development companies;
mining conglomerates; numerous state government departments; high
technology manufacturers; port authorities; automobile clubs;
medical care providers; and telecommunications providers. Tony
has provided training and management presentations on a variety
of topics, and has acted as an expert witness in a number of
large legal cases.
Tony
presented the paper "The Digital World and its impact on the
Legal World" (concerning digital signatures, digital fraud,
etc) at the Technology for Justice conference, organised by the
Australian Institute of Judicial Administration (AIJA),
Melbourne, Australia, 23-25 March 1998. Tony also contributed to
the "Technology and the Law" report by the Victorian
Law Reform Committee (May 1999) and was the major writer of
section 5.3 "Justice and Technology" for the Law Reform
Commission of Western Australia Review of the Criminal and Civil
Justice System - Project 92 (June 1999)
Mr Justice Peter
Underwood
Mr Justice
Peter Underwood was admitted to practice in Tasmania in 1960. He
was employed as a legal practitioner in Hobart becoming a partner
in the firm of Murdoch Clarke Cosgrove and Drake in 1984. As a
practitioner, he was active in both the Tasmanian Law Council and
Bar Association. He served as a member of the Supreme Court Rules
Committee from 1981 to 1984 and a member of the Tasmanian Law
Reform Commission, from 1977 to 1984.
He is a former
member and President of the Tasmanian Council of Social Service
and has also held a range of voluntary positions with a Variety
of theatre, arts and educational organisations.
He was
appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of Tasmania in 1994. As a
member of that Court he has been actively involved in areas such
as case management and information technology. Justice Underwood
is the Convenor of the AIJA's technology for Justice Conference
Steering Committee.
Winchel "Todd"
Vincent, III, Attourney and Technical Consultant, Georgia State
University.
Winchel 'Todd'
Vincent, III is an attorney and technical consultant working for
Georgia State University. For two and a half years, Todd acted as
Project Director of Georgia State’s Electronic Court Filing
Project As part of the Georgia State project, Todd founded and
continues to coordinate the international standards effort Legal
XML (http://www.legalxml.org). Founded in November 1998, Legal XML is a non-profit
organization comprised of over 600 volunteer members (with over
100 Australians) from private industry, non-profit organizations,
government, and academia. Legal XML’s mission is to develop
open, non-proprietary technical standards for legal documents and
related applications.
GCAC and the Electronic Court
Filing Project are currently engaged in an "Electronic Court
Filing Interoperability Pilot" where five vendors in five
different courts are installing e-filing. In the second phase of
the Project the courts and vendors will test interoperability
using the JTC/Legal XML Court Filing 1.0 proposed standard.
The Joint Technology Committee is
a joint committee of Conference of State Court Administrators
("COSCA") (http://cosca.ncsc.dni.us/) and National
Association of Court Managers ("NACM") (http://nacm.ncsc.dni.us/).
Legal XML (http://www.legalxml.org) is a non-profit organization
comprised of over 600 volunteer members from private industry,
non-profit organizations, government, and academia. The mission
of Legal XML is to develop open, non-proprietary technical
standards for legal documents and related applications.
Extensible Markup Language ("XML") is an open, non-proprietary
stadnard developed by the World Wide Web Consortium ("W3C")
(http://www.w3.org/).
Todd is an active member of the
American Bar Associations’ Information Security Committee.
He participates in the joint Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
and World Wide Web Consortium XML-Signature Workgroup. (http://www.w3.org/Signature/). He also participates in the National
Automated Clearing House’s present Digital Signature/ATM
Pilot.
From 1997 to 1999, Todd was part
owner of a small technology company that built webpages, designed
databases, did network rollouts, and placed information
technology professionals. Todd is currently building a second
business.
Todd is an active member of the
State Bar of Georgia and the American Bar Association. Todd
graduated from Georgia State University College of Law, cum
laude. He attended Ruprecht-Karls Universitaet Heidelberg,
Germany for two years where he studied German, French, and German
and Anglo-American law. He graduated from the University of
Kentucky with a B.A. in Political Science.
Richard
Weatherley, Director, Galexia.
Richard
Weatherley is Director & CTO of Galexia, an Internet services
company operating in the legal sector. With 15 years experience
in the IT industry, Richard has provided consulting services and
"best of breed" solutions to a broad range of clients
in Australia, Europe and the US. He has an extensive background
in Internet security, including penetration testing, auditing,
risk management, policy development and PKI solution design.
Richard is a member of the Australian Computer Society and the
Internet Industry Association.
Judge Yeats was
appointed a Judge of the District Court of Western Australian in
1993. She served as President of the Children's Court of Western
Australia during 1995. Her Honour graduated from the University
of Western Australia, Bachelor of Jurisprudence (First Class
Honours) in 1978, and Bachelor of Laws (Honours) in 1982. Prior
to her appointment to the Bench she was a senior assistant Crown
counsel in the Crown Law Department, and practiced in all areas
of public law including administrative, constitutional and
criminal law.
Since 1994 Judge
Yeats has chaired the District Court Judicial Supprt Steering
Cimmittee and the District Court Information Committee. Those
committees co-ordinate information technology support for the
Judges and Registrars of the District Court. She is also a member
of the Law Reporting Advisory Board and the Supreme and District
Courts model Criminal Code Committee. Her Honour is a board
member of the International Society for the Reform of Criminal
Law.