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Speeches

The Hon Chief Justice Robert French 

The Interface between Equitable Principles and Public Law, Society of Trust and Estate Planners, Sydney, 29 October 2010

Procedural Fairness - Indispensable to Justice?, Sir Anthony Mason Lecture, The University of Melbourne Law School, Law Students' Society, Melbourne, 7 October 2010

Singers of songs and dreamers of plays, Victorian Bar Association Annual Dinner, Melbourne, 3 September 2010

"It's Not Whether You Win or Lose...", Northern Territory Bar Association Annual Dinner, Darwin, 14 August 2010

A Complicated Brief – The Corporations Law Adviser, Business Law Section, Law Council of Australia, Corporations Law Workshop Dinner, Canberra, 31 July 2010

Administrative Justice – Words in Search of Meaning, Australian Institute of Administrative Law Annual Conference – National Administrative Law Forum 2010, Sydney, 22 July 2010

John Forrest: Founding Father from the Far West, National Archives of Australia Constitution Day Lecture, Canberra, 8 July 2010

Courts in a Representative Democracy, University of Southern Queensland, Toowomba, 25 June 2010

Justice as Fairness – A Contested Ideal, University of Western Sydney Biennial Dinner, Sydney, 7 May 2010

Welcome to High Court, 15th National Schools Constitutional Convention Dinner, Canberra, 24 March 2010

Interacting with Diversity: Australian Judges and Regional Courts, Australian Institute of International Affairs – ACT Branch, Canberra, 12 March 2010

Theories of Everything and Constitutional Interpretation – 2010 Constitutional Law Conference Dinner, University of New South Wales – Gilbert &: Tobin Centre of Public Law, Sydney, 19 February 2010

The Executive Power – Inaugural George Winterton Lecture, Sydney Law School, Sydney, 18 February 2010

Protecting Human Rights Without a Bill of Rights, John Marshall Law School, Chicago, 26 January 2010

Constitutional Review of Executive Decisions – Australia's US Legacy, John Marshall Law School – Chicago Bar Association, 25 and 28 January 2010

Australia's Constitutional Evolution, John Fordham Law School Constitutional Law Master Class, New York, 20 January 2010

The Future of Australian Constitutionalism, International and Comparative Perspectives on Constitutional Law: A 21st Anniversary Celebration for the Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies, Melbourne, 27 November 2009

The Constitution and the Protection of Human Rights, Edith Cowan University Vice-Chancellor's Oration, Perth, 20 November 2009

Judicial Activism – The Boundaries of the Judicial Role, LAWASIA Conference, Ho Chi Minh City, 10 November 2009

Public & Private Law: The Intersection – La Trobe Lecture, Melbourne, 30 October 2009

The Chief Justice and the Governor–General, Melbourne University Law Review Annual Dinner, Melbourne, 29 October 2009

Judicial Education – A Global Phenomenon, The International Organisation for Judicial Training, The Fourth International Conference on the Training of the Judiciary, Sydney, 26 October 2009

The State of the Australian Judicature, The 36th Australian Legal Convention, Perth, 18 September 2009

Notaries – from Stones to Electrons, Australia and New Zealand College of Notaries Biennial Conference, Melbourne, 11 September 2009

The Common Law and the Protection of Human Rights, Anglo Australasian Lawyers Society, Sydney, 4 September 2009

International Law and Australian Domestic Law, Supreme Court of New South Wales Annual Conference, Hunter Valley, 21 August 2009

Surfing the Wavefront, Law Council of Australia Trade Practices Workshop, Yarra Valley, 15 August 2009

Modest Questions – Great Answers, International Committee of the Red Cross and Australian Red Cross, 60th Anniversary of the Geneva Conventions, Canberra, 12 August 2009

Perspectives on Court Annexed Alternative Dispute Resolution, Law Council of Australia – Multi–Door Symposium, Canberra, 27 July 2009

From Light and Life to Genes and Galaxies – 45 Years On, 35th Professor Harry Messel International Science School, Sydney, 13 July 2009

Relaunch of National Archives Exhibition on the High Court at the "Memory of a Nation" Gallery, Canberra, 8 July 2009

Adding Value To Law Making – Australia and New Zealand Scrutiny of Legislation Conference, Canberra, 6 July 2009

In Praise of Unelected Judges – The John Curtin Institute of Public Policy, Public Policy Forum, Perth, 1 July 2009

"Oil and Water?" – International Law and Domestic Law in Australia, The Brennan Lecture, Bond University, 26 June 2009

Federalism in The Supreme Court of India and The High Court of Australia – Second Indo Australian Legal Forum Meet 2009, Canberra, 3 June 2009

James Merralls' AM QC – The Doyen of Law Reporters – 40 Years Editor of the Commonwealth Law Reports, Melbourne, 29 May 2009

In Hope of Convergence – A Regional Perspective on Competition Law, 2009 Competition Law Conference, Sydney, 23 May 2009

Boundary Conditions – The Funding of The Courts Within a Constitutional Framework, Australian Institute of Judicial Administration, Australian Court Administrator's Group Conference, Melbourne, 15 May 2009

Don't you know who I am? – Ego and Identity in the Administration of Justice, New South Wales Bar Association, Bench and Bar Dinner, Sydney, 8 May 2009,

Science and Judicial Proceedings - Seventy-Six Years On, Medico Legal Society of Victoria, 2 May 2009,

Intellectual Property –Living in the Twilight Zone, Licensing Executives Society of Australia and New Zealand, Annual Conference, Canberra, 4 April 2009,

The Human Dimension of the Law, University of Canberra – Isaacs Law Society - Law Ball, Canberra, 3 April 2009,

Native Title – A Constitutional Shift?, JD Lecture Series, University of Melbourne Law School, 24 March 2009,

The Future of Litigation: Dispute Resolution in Jurassic Park? Annual Conference 2009, Bar Association of Queensland, 7 March 2009,

Superannuation - A Confluence of Legal Streams, 26 February 2009,

"In praise of breadth" – A reflection on the virtues of generalist lawyering, Law Summer School 2009, University of Western Australia, 20 February 2009,

Conference on Judicial Reasoning: Art or Science?, Opening Address: Chief Justice Robert French, Australian National University, National Judicial College of Australia and Australian Academy of Forensic Science, Canberra, 7 February 2009,

"Swapping Ideas: The Academy, the Judiciary and the Profession", delivered at the Australian Academy of Law 2008 Symposium Series, Melbourne, 1 December 2008,

Rolling a Rock Uphill? – Native Title and the Myth of Sisyphus, Judicial Conference of Australia National Colloquium, 10 October 2008,

Unleashing the Tiger? – Competition Law in China and Hong Kong, Conference Opening Address, Melbourne Law School, 4 October 2008,

Cause for Celebration, Law Council of Australia 75th Anniversary Dinner, 19 September 2008,

Law Libraries – Places of Power and Danger, The Art of Information, Australian Law Librarians Association Conference 2008, Perth, 18 September 2008,

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The Hon Justice Kenneth Hayne

"The Vanishing Trial", Supreme and Federal Courts Judges Conference, Sydney, Wednesday 23 January 2008,

"Written Advocacy" A paper delivered as part of the Continuing Legal Education Program of the Victorian Bar, 5 and 26 March 2007,

Concerning Judicial Method - Fifty Years on, Fourteenth Lucinda Lecture, Monash University Law School, Tuesday, 17 October 2006,

Advocacy and Special Leave Applications in the High Court of Australia, The Victorian Bar - Continuing Legal Education, 22 November 2004,

High Court Rules 2004, Introductory Remarks at Seminars for the Legal Profession, October/November 2004,

Advocacy in the High Court of Australia, An Address to the Western Australian Bar Association, 25 October 2004,

After Dinner Speech, Law of Obligations Conference - 15 July 2004, The University of Melbourne, 15-16 July 2004,

Keynote Address at the Insolvency and Trustee Service Australia 5th National Bankruptcy Congress, Melbourne, 13 May 2004,

"The High Court of Australia", Round Table of the International Association of Constitutional Law, Melbourne, 4 October 2003,

"Restricting Litigiousness", 13th Commonwealth Law Conference, Melbourne, 14 April 2003,

"Dispute Resolution and the Rule of Law" Sino-Australian Seminar, Beijing,20-22 November 2002,

Keynote Address - Australian Insurance Law Association - National Conference - Melbourne, Thursday, 17 October 2002 - Litigation in the Age of Statutes",

Opening address by the Hon. Justice K.M. Hayne, AC at the Centre for Commercial Law Conference 2002 "Commercial Law - Private Business/Public Concern" Monday, 30 September 2002 Australian National University,

Leo Cussen Lecture, "Lessons From The Rear-View Mirror", Melbourne, 31 October 2001,

The Fourth Fiat Justitia Lecture, Letting Justice be Done Without the Heavens Falling, Monash University, 21 March 2001,

Reply to the Honourable Ruth Bader Ginsburg, "Remarks on Judicial Independence: the Situation of the U.S. Federal Judiciary", Melbourne, 1 February 2001,

Keynote Address, Judicial Conference of Australia, Melbourne, 13 November 1999, "Australian Law in the Twentieth Century",

Opening of the Centre for Commercial Law, Australian National University, Wednesday, 12 May 1999,

An Address to the Readers of the Bar Practice Course, Brisbane, 24 February 1999 "Judicial Case Management and the Duties of Counsel",

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The Hon Justice Susan Crennan

Recent Developments in Intelligence Property Law in Australia with some Reference to The Global Economy, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London, 15 February 2010,

Statutes and The Contemporary Search for Meaning, Statute Law Society Paper, London, 1 February 2010,

Varieties of History and The Law, The Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn, London, 31 January 2010,

Gilbert & Tobin Centre of Public Law, Constitutional Law Dinner 2008, "Reflections on sections 7 and 24 of the Constitution",

CLE Lecture, The Victorian Bar, Melbourne, 28 November 2007, "Blackstone's "signs" and statutory interpretation",

Launch of Meanjin, Volume 66.3, Univerity of Melbourne, 18 October 2007,

Intellectual Property Society of Australia and New Zealand (IPSANZ) Conference, Noosa, 16 September 2007, "Obviousness: different paths through Scylla and Charybdis",

Australian Bar Association Conference, Chicago, 28 June 2007, "Scepticism and the Law",

Australian National University, Canberra, 18 April 2007, "Book Launch",

Freehills' Litigators Dinner, Melbourne, 11 September 2006, "Post-Modernism and the Law",

Supreme Court of Victoria, Melbourne, 30 March 2006, Book Launch "In Off the Red",

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Speeches by former members of the High Court

Last updated 16 November 2010