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Bench Book Committees The day-to-day work of revising the content of bench books is delegated to individual Bench Book Committees, acting on behalf of the Commission. Criminal Trial Courts Bench Book Committee • The Honourable Acting Justice Howie (Chair) • The Honourable Justice Johnson • His Honour Judge Berman SC (until 16 December 2010) • The Honourable Justice Hulme SC • His Honour Judge Lakatos SC • Mr H Donnelly (Convenor) Civil Trials Bench Book Committee • The Honourable James Wood AO QC (Chair) • The Honourable Michael Campbell QC • The Honourable Justice Hoeben AM RFD • The Honourable Justice Hislop • His Honour Judge Johnstone • His Honour Judge Elkaim SC • His Honour Magistrate Heilpern (until 1 November 2010) • The Honourable David Hunt AO QC • Mr E Schmatt PSM • Ms R Windeler • Ms F Findlay (Convenor until 1 December 2010) • Ms Antonia Lomny (Convenor from 9 March 2011) Local Courts Bench Book Committee • Her Honour Deputy Chief Magistrate Mottley (Chair until July 2011) • Her Honour Deputy Chief Magistrate Culver (Chair from 26 July 2011) • His Honour Magistrate Heilpern (until 1 November 2010) • Her Honour Magistrate Freund (until 14 February 2011) • Ms Alison Passe-de Silva, Policy Officer, Chief Magistrate’s Office (from 13 September 2010) • Ms Roslyn Cook (Convenor) Equality before the Law Bench Book Committee • The Honourable Justice Beazley AO (Chair) • The Honourable Justice Basten • The Honourable Justice Rothman AM • His Honour Judge Norrish QC • Dr M Dodson AM • Dr J Cashmore AO • Mr E Schmatt PSM • Ms R Windeler • Ms K Lumley (Convenor) Sexual Assault Handbook Committee • His Honour Judge Ellis (Chair) • His Honour Judge Knox SC • Ms R Windeler • Ms K Lumley (Convenor) Audit and Risk Management Committee • Mr Peter Whitehead BA LLB TEP, appointed 5 August 2008, renewed 1 July 2009 for two years. Mr Whitehead is the National Manager, Fiduciary Solutions, Perpetual and until 30 June 2009, was the NSW Public Trustee. • Mr Alex Smith AM, appointed 1 December 2009 for two years, is the former Deputy Director General, Department of Premier and Cabinet, NSW. Mr Smith has had 40 years’ experience in the NSW public sector having held senior positions in the Department of Premier and Cabinet and the Department of Land and Water Conservation. • Mr Murali Sagi PSM, Director, Information Management and Corporate Services, Judicial Commission. Mr Sagi’s qualifications and biography are found on p 80. Appendix 5 Conference topics Annual Conferences Supreme Court Annual Conference, August 2010 • “Keynote Address: Public Service and Private Law”, The Right Honourable Lord Hoffmann • “Appellate Jurisdictions of the Court”, The Honourable Murray Gleeson AC QC • “Developments in Criminal Trials”, The Honourable Justice Robert A Hulme • “Developments in Equity: Easing into Easements”, Emeritus Professor Peter Butt, Sydney Law School, University of Sydney • “The Expert Debate: Setting the Limits on the Use of Expert Evidence”, The Right Honourable Sir Brian Leveson, Lord Justice of Appeal • “Regulating Banker Excess – An International Perspective”, Professor John Armour, Hogan Lovells Professor of Law and Finance, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford • “Psychiatric Diseases, Brain Function and Diminished Responsibility”, Professor Max Bennett AO, Professor of Neuroscience, University Chair, Director Brain and Mind Research Institute, University of Sydney • “A Less Taxing Process? Issues in Costs Assessment”, The Honourable Justice Paul Brereton AM RFD • “Development of the Brain”, Professor Ian Hickie AM, Executive Director, Brain and Mind Research Institute and Professor of Psychiatry, University of Sydney Industrial Relations Commission Annual Conference, October 2010 • “Workload and Case Management Update”, The Honourable Justice Walton, Vice President • “Reading Financial Statements: What to Look For/Unravelling the Mysteries of Financial Statements”, Mr Matthew Gwynne, Director – Forensic, Vincents Chartered Accountants • “Reliability of DSM-V Measurements and Protocols”, The Honourable Greg James QC, President, Mental Health Review Tribunal, and Professor Philip Mitchell AM, Scientia Professor and Head, School of Psychiatry, UNSW Appendix 5 — Conference topics 123
Appendices Appendix 5: Conference topics continued • “Delivering Ex Tempore Judgments”, The Honourable David Lloyd QC • “Section 146B Agreements — An Update”, The Honourable Justice Walton, Vice President • “Panels: Workload, Emerging Trends, Problems” • “Critical Reasoning: An Introduction”, Professor Douglas Lind, Professor of Philosophy and Chair, Department of Philosophy, University of Idaho, USA • “Expert Evidence”, The Honourable Justice Cliff Hoeben AM RFD, Supreme Court of NSW • “An Alien Like You”, Professor Fred Watson AM, Astronomer in Charge of the Australian Astronomical Observatory, Coonabarabran District Court Annual Conference, April 2011 • “Court of Appeal Review: Administrative Law”, The Honourable Justice John Basten, Court of Appeal, Supreme Court of NSW • “Psychiatric Diseases, Brain Function and Diminished Responsibility”, Professor Max Bennett AO, Professor of Neuroscience, University Chair, Director, Brain and Mind Research Institute, University of Sydney • “Current Issues in Sentencing”, Her Honour Judge Helen Murrell SC and His Honour Judge Peter Berman SC • “Simplifying Sentencing Laws”, The Honourable Justice Reg Blanch AM, Chief Judge • “Are We There Yet? — Using a Question Trail to Assist the Jury to Reach a Verdict”, Her Honour Judge Penelope Hock • “Aboriginal Youth Diversion Programs”, Mr Shane Phillips, CEO, Tribal Warrior Association and Superintendent Luke Freudenstein, Commander, Redfern Local Area Command • “Court of Criminal Appeal Review”, The Honourable Justice Derek Price AM, Supreme Court of NSW • “Insolvent Parties”, Her Honour Judge Dianne Truss • “Care Proceedings and Appeals to the District Court”, His Honour Judge Mark Marien SC • “Service of Surveillance Evidence in Personal Injury Cases”, His Honour Judge Ross Letherbarrow SC • “Case Management Post Aon”, Her Honour Judge Margaret Sidis • “Child Witnesses”, His Honour Judge Paul Lakatos SC and Dr Judy Cashmore AO • “Reducing Recidivism Rates: What Works?”, Professor James Ogloff, Monash University • “Everything You Wanted to Know but did not like to Ask”, The Honourable Justice Reg Blanch AM, His Honour Judge Ron Solomon, Her Honour Judge Dianne Truss and His Honour Judge Martin Blackmore SC Land and Environment Court Annual Conference, May 2011 • “Update on Jurisdiction and Practice and Procedure”, The Honourable Justice Brian Preston, Chief Judge • “Practice, Procedure and Evidence in the Administrative Appeals Tribunal”, The Honourable Justice Garry Downes AM, President, Administrative Appeals Tribunal • “The Effect of Conditions of Development Approval on Property Rights”, The Honourable Justice David Hodgson AO, NSW Court of Appeal • “The Impact of Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Issues on the Land and Environment Court”, Acting Commissioner Larissa Behrendt • “Climate Change and Coastal Protection”, Professor Zada Lipman, Emeritus Professor, School of Law, Macquarie University • “Practice, Procedure and Evidence in the Supreme Court Equity Division”, The Honourable Justice Patricia Bergin, Chief Judge in Equity, Supreme Court of NSW • “Alternative Dispute Resolution in Merits Matters”, Commissioner Graham Brown, Commissioner Sue Morris and Acting Commissioner Craig Miller • “Judicial Review: Grounds, Standards and Intensity of Review or ‘Who is Miss Behavin?’”, The Honourable Justice John Basten, Court of Appeal, Supreme Court of NSW • “Values in the Law”, The Honourable Keith Mason AC QC, Visiting Professorial Fellow, UNSW • “Criminal Law Update”, The Honourable Mr Justice Robert S Hulme, Supreme Court of NSW • “Why Planning Needs Design”, Ms Jan McCredie, Manager, Planning and Environmental Assessment, Worley Parsons • “The Land and Environment Court 1985–1997: Reminiscences”, The Honourable Paul Stein AM QC Local Court Annual Conference, June 2011 • “Eyewitness Memory and Assessment of Credibility”, Dr Richard Kemp, Senior Lecturer in Forensic Psychology, School of Psychology, University of New South Wales and Dr Helen Paterson, Lecturer in Forensic Psychology, School of Psychology, University of Sydney • “Ethics”, Dr Peter Melser, Manager, Ethics Services, St James Ethics Centre • “Criminal Law Update”, The Honourable Justice Robert A Hulme, Supreme Court of NSW • “Chief Magistrate’s Address”, His Honour Judge Graeme Henson, Chief Magistrate • “Attorney General’s Address”, The Honourable Gregory Smith SC MP, Attorney General and Minister for Justice • “Civil Law Update”, Her Honour Judge Margaret Sidis, District Court of NSW • “The Young Brain”, Dr Andrew Chanen, Senior Lecturer, Orygen Youth Health Research Centre, University of Melbourne and Consultant Psychologist and Associate Medical Director, Orygen Centre for Youth Mental Health, Northwestern Mental Health • “ The Ageing Brain — Part A: Ageing and Offending”, Dr Sharon Reutens, Lecturer (Conjoint), School of Psychiatry, UNSW • “The Ageing Brain — Part B: Healthy Ageing in Magistrates”, Associate Professor Carmelle Peisah, School of Psychiatry, UNSW • “Family Law”, The Honourable Justice Jan Stevenson, Family Court of Australia 124 Judicial Commission of NSW Annual Report 2010–11
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