Announcements

In address to the 2018 Annual Dinner of NSW Labor Lawyers, the Hon. Diana Bryant AO QC, former Chief Justice of the Family Court of Australia, has said that the government’s proposed reforms to...

The Society has been quoted extensively in the final report of the Legislation Review Committee for their inquiry into the operation of the Legislation Review Act 1987 (NSW). The Society advocated for the introduction of comprehensive...

On 1 September 2018 the NSW Shadow Attorney-General delivered a speech to the 11th Annual Fundraising Dinner for Toongabbie Legal Centre at Bowman Hall, Blacktown, on access to justice in New South Wales. A...

The NSW Society of Labor Lawyers recently provided evidence on 21 May 2018 to the Legislation Review Committee's Inquiry into the Operation of the Legislation Review Act. The Society reaffirmed its commitment to the introduction...

"But I also understand what Frank told me so many years ago - that the reforms worth losing skin over, the ones that promote fairness and equity and go to the core of Labor...

On 15 March 2018 NSW Labor Lawyers hosted a CPD presented by Mark Gibian (Barrister, HB Higgins Chambers), Phil Boncardo (Barrister, Wardell Chambers) and Alison Rudman (Director of Organising, Road, Tram and Bus Union)...

On 15 March 2018 NSW Labor Lawyers hosted a CPD presented by David Ralph, Professor of Media and Defamation Law at the University of Sydney. The topic was "The intersection of privilege, contempt and...

I regret to inform you that you have invited a very grumpy old woman to speak to you tonight. There is much of modern life that I resent and resist. I will spare you...

In February last year, The Monthly published my essay It’s Time. The title was not simply channelling Labor’s 1972 campaign slogan. It was rather a recognition of the fact that the time has come for marriage equality...

Legal Tweaks 2015 was launched Monday 2 November by Edward Santow, CEO of the Public Interest Advocacy Centre. This year's edition contains a foreword by Federal Shadow Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus QC MP and NSW...