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)