This is a paper on Risk Management for Lawyers qua Employers I gave on the 30^th March 2012, at the Thomson Reuters’ Sydney C.L.E. Conference at the Intercontinental Hotel, Sydney.

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LEGAL PROFESSION REGULATION 2005

REG 176

Regulation 176 of the Legal Profession Regulation 2005 deals with the necessary risk management practices that barristers and solicitors ,as employers, need to develop in relation to general employment law matters dealing with discrimination, harassment ,work safety and Fair Work Act issues.These are matters which all employers need to understand and follow. Even though this paper is under the framework of continuing legal education the object of the regulation is not that we may advise others about these principles but that we follow them ourselves. The primary purpose of the regulation is to manage our practices consistent with these principles,( reg 176(1) (e)). This is so, whether our staff are employed directly by a legal practitioner trading as a sole trader ,partnership , trust, service company or by the entity that manages barristers’ chambers. [...] Continue Reading…

St John’s College’s law student Anna Pejovic wins the 2011 Fr Les Cashen Essay Prize with her essay on Justice John Nagle and Prison Reform.   The NSW Department of Corrective Services states that its mission is to ‘reduce re-offending through secure, safe, humane management of offenders’.[1] The words ‘safe’ and ‘humane’ may not strike the reader as extraordinary; however it is these words that serve to legitimise prisoners’ rights.

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You can bring Mao and Lin Piao but don’t bring Trotsky.This piece is taken from Workplace Review Summer 2011. Available from Thompson Reuters. See my review here.

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This piece is taken from Workplace Review Summer 2011. Available from Thompson Reuters.

In this paper I review Infomax International PTY Ltd v Clarius Group Ltd (No 2) [2011] FCA 934. View “Jeffrey Phillips on the case” [...] Continue Reading…

Taken from the Spring Edition of Workplace Review. This is my book review of THE FOG ON THE HILL by Frank Sartor.

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