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Dyson Heydon to speak at Samuel Griffith Society conference
Disgraced former HCA judge to speak at conference later this year, Susan Kenny AM KC appears on latest episode of "Lives and Times of the Judges" podcast, Mordy Bromberg speaks at National Press Club.
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2025 Conference — The Samuel Griffith Society
The conference will feature:
The Fifteenth Sir Harry Gibbs Memorial Oration, delivered by The Honourable Simon Steward, Justice of the High Court of Australia
The Third Sir David Smith Memorial Oration
Other announced speakers include:
The Honourable Richard Court AC, 26th Premier of Western Australia
The Honourable Nicholas Hasluck AM, KC, former Justice of the Supreme Court of Western Australia
The Honourable Dyson Heydon KC, former Justice of the High Court of Australia
Susan Kenny AM KC - Lives and Times of Judges - A Podcast Series | Podcast on Spotify
Susan Kenny AM KC, Judge of the Federal Court of Australia 1998 – 2023.
Susan Kenny was born in Oxford in 1953 and grew up in England, in the USA and in Melbourne, completing her schooling at Methodist Ladies’ College.
She graduated from the University of Melbourne in 1978 with a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws, winning the Dwight’s prize for History and sharing the Supreme Court Prize for Law.
After a career at the bar, in 1985 she moved back to England and completed a doctorate at the University of Oxford in constitutional law in 1988. Returning to the Victorian Bar, Susan Kenny took silk in 1996. In 1997 Susan Kenny was invited to join the Supreme Court, Court of Appeal, the first woman to be appointed. In 1998 she was invited to join the Federal Court and remained for more than 25 years, retiring at the end of 2023. Whilst in that role, she also served as Chairperson of the Australian Electoral Commission between 2020 and 2025 and on retirement from the Federal Court, re-joined the Supreme Court of Victoria as a Reserve Judge.
Australian Law Reform Commission President, the Hon Justice Mordy Bromberg and Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence Commissioner, Micaela Cronin Address the National Press Club of Australia on “Safe, informed and supported: addressing sexual violence.”
Can a "common informer" enforce MP disqualification? - Anne Twomey - YouTube
A common informer procedure allows anyone to sue a Member or Senator for a certain amount of money for each day they sit while disqualified. It is intended to ensure that disqualification is addressed even when a majority of the House has a vested interest in not doing so.
This video discusses the common informer procedure under s 46 of the Constitution, how it was altered by legislation in 1975, and how both were neutered by the High Court's judgment in Alley v Gillespie that a common informer can only act if disqualification has already been determined by another means.
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