Robert Angyal SC: "Alternative Dispute Resolution is Dead. Long Live Alternative Dispute Resolution."

On 17 February 2017, Robert Angyal SC gave a presentation to the South Australian Law Society’s annual Forum, entitled Alternative Dispute Resolution is Dead. Long Live Alternative Dispute Resolution. The presentation discussed the profound implications of the fact that mediation has become the dominant means of resolution of civil disputes and suggested that, perhaps, going to Court should now be called “alternative dispute resolution”.

Mr Angyal is preparing a paper based on the presentation for publication.

Dr Christopher Ward SC: "In Defense of the Right to Life: International Law and the Death Penalty in the Philippines"

6 St James Hall Senior Counsel Dr Christopher Ward SC recently advised the Philippines Commission for Human Rights on the legality of Philippines legislative proposals to reintroduce the death penalty in that country.

The collaborative results of that project, which was assisted by the Australian National University, are now available in the document: In Defense of the Right to Life: International Law and the Death Penalty in the Philippines.

Technology in ADR: Computers as Mediators

On 13 July 2016, Robert Angyal SC made a presentation to the NSW Bar Association as part of a seminar on ‘Technology in ADR: Computers as Mediators’.  His presentation, ‘Just when you thought it was safe to go into the water … What are the implications for barristers?’, examined strategies for dealing with competition from computerised online dispute resolution systems (ODR), and recommended that lawyers compete by differentiating the services they could offer from those provided by ODR. 

You can download his PowerPoint Presentation from here.

6 St James' Hall hosts Professor James Weinstein, Amelia Lewis Professor of Constitutional Law at Arizona State University

The members of 6 St James' Hall are delighted to host a CPD lunchtime seminar on Monday, 27 June 2016 featuring Professor James Weinstein, the Amelia Lewis Professor of Constitutional Law at Arizona State University’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law. 

Prof. Weinstein is a constitutional law specialist with a particular interest in free speech and whether hate speech is a permissible exercise of the right to free speech. He is in Australia to make presentations on Hate Speech at the law schools of the University of Queensland, Monash and the University of New South Wales.

Dr Stephen Tully calls on international legal community to participate in Australia-China Extradition Treaty parliamentary inquiry

Dr Stephen Tully, an international law and immigration specialist counsel, has called on the international community to make submissions to the Commonwealth of Australia's Joint Standing Committee on Treaties' current inquiry into the 2007 Treaty on Extradition between Australia and the People's Republic of China. 

Letter to JSCOT re: extradition arrangements (March 2016)

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