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Fifty years of the Australian Law Reform Commission - Law Report - Apple Podcasts
The Australian Law Reform Commission is celebrating its 50th anniversary.An independent federal agency, the Commission provides recommendations to the Federal Government on ways to improve, modernise and simplify the law.
The Law Report's Damien Carrick hosted an event in Melbourne last month to mark its half century.
Guests: Justice Michael Kirby, inaugural ALRC chairman (1975-84); former High Court judge, Justice Elizabeth Evatt, ALRC chairman (1988-93), first Chief Judge of the Family Court, Justice Sarah Derrington, ALRC president (2018-23); former Federal Court judge, Professor Rosalind Croucher, ALRC president (2009-17); president of the Australian Human Rights Commission (2017-24), Gareth Evans, former ALRC commissioner; former federal attorney-general and foreign affairs minister
Livestream 5pm Wednesday 5 Nov 2025 - Discussion Paper on Practical Legal Training - NSWSC - YouTube
During his time as a judge of the Equity Division of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, The Hon. James Stevenson SC delivered nearly 1,000 interlocutory and final judgments. Reflecting on that experience, he has recently authored an article, “Judgment Writing”. In the piece, His Honour shares practical insights drawn from his judicial career, including the value of issues-based judgment writing, strategies for managing fact-heavy and document-intensive cases, and the importance of writing for the parties rather than for “posterity or promotion.”
I want to reflect on what I have come to see, through my own experience, as both the illuminating strengths and the shadowed weaknesses of the Australian legal system and its role in our democracy.
What’s happening court-wise in November?
LOTS!
17-19th: Pauline Hanson appeals findings she racially discriminated against Mehreen Faruqi
25-27th: Mark Latham appeals defamation loss to Alex Greenwich
— #Vaxatious Litigant 💉⚖️👨⚖️ (#@ExposingNV)
7:40 AM • Nov 4, 2025
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