Newsletter - Trimline - Victorian Bar

No. 450 4 29 October 2009
Contact Sion on 9225 6748 or essoign@vicbar.com.au to reserve your table, or download
the booking form from the Victorian Bar website.
Reminders
Supreme Court of Victoria Inaugural Commercial Law Conference – Current Issues in
Commercial Law
Co-sponsored by the Supreme Court of Victoria and the Centre for Corporate Law and
Securities Regulation, Melbourne Law School, in association with the Victorian Bar
Association and the Law Institute of Victoria.
Date: Thursday 12 November 2009
Venue: Banco Court, Supreme Court of Victoria, 210 Williams St, Melb.
Time: 2.00pm – 5.45pm
• Current Issues in Shareholder Remedies under the Corporations Act – Professor Ian
Ramsay, University of Melbourne
• Insolvent Managed Investment Schemes – issues arising out of Timbercorp and Great
Southern – Jon Webster, Allens Arthur Robinson
• Company Director’s and Officer’s Conflicts of Interest - Allan J Myers AO QC (co-author
Dr Elizabeth Boros)
• The Role of the Modern Commercial Court - The Hon Justice Tony Pagone and Mark
Moshinsky S.C.
The flyer and registration form are available at this website.
For further information please contact Ms Josephine Peters, Centre for Corporate Law and
Securities Regulation, The University of Melbourne Law School, Victoria 3010:
Email: j.peters@unimelb.edu.au
Tel: 03 8344 5281
Fax: 03 8344 5285
Victorian Bar’s Indigenous Clerkship Program
From 8 February to 26 February 2010 (inclusive), the Victorian Bar is conducting a
clerkship program for Indigenous law students. The selected 3 or 4 students will obtain
paid work experience at each of the Bar, the Supreme Court of Victoria, the Federal Court
of Australia and, if the clerk is interested, the Judicial College of Victoria. Applications close
Friday 20 November 2009.
Download application guidelines and application form here.
Building Dispute Practitioners’ Society Annual General Meeting and Inaugural Debate
– ‘That Mediation has Gone Too Far’
The BDPS AGM will be held on Wednesday 18 November 2009. This is an election year
for the BDPS Committee. Anyone interested in nominating for the BDPS committee should
ensure that their nominations are received by the Secretary by Friday 6 November 2009.
The AGM will be followed by a Debate on the topic ‘That Mediation has gone too far’.
Speaking for the Affirmative will be the Honourable Bill Gillard QC and for the negative we
have George Golvan QC. Will Alstergren has been appointed as mediator for the Debate.
The evening will take place at the RACV Club, Bayside Function Room, Second Floor, 501
Bourke Street, Melbourne, starting at 6.00pm and cost $88 per person if booked by 5pm
on Friday 13 November 2009. Numbers are limited so please RSVP early to ensure a seat.
Please find details and a booking form at this website or call Persa Gougoulas on 9670
0966.