LSB September 2017

LEGAL PROFESSION
DINNER
REGISTRATION FORM
DATE: Thursday 5 October 2017
TIME:
6.30pm for 7pm – 11.30pm
VENUE:
Adelaide Oval (Ian McLachlan Room)
DRESS:
Cocktail
BAND:
Lucky Seven
MC: Mike Smithson, Channel 7
INCLUSIONS:
3 course menu with premium wines
Award Presentations
RSVP & ENQUIRIES: Amelia Garreffa (Member Services)
Phone: (08) 8229 0264
Email: mcs@lawsocietysa.asn.au
GUEST SPEAKER: BRET WALKER SC
“THE LAW. WHAT’S GOD GOT TO DO WITH IT?”
Bret Walker SC was admitted to the New South Wales bar in 1979. He was appointed Senior Counsel in
1993, Queen’s Counsel in 1994, and was President of the NSW Bar Association from November 2001 to
November 2003. He was President of the Law Council of Australia from 1997 to 1998. He practises mainly
in general appellate advocacy, equity/commercial, administrative and Constitutional law.
Mr Walker has been editor of the NSW Law Reports since 2006. He was a Governor of the Law Foundation
of NSW from 1996 to 2007, and Special Commissioner of Inquiry for the NSW government into Sydney
Ferries in 2007 (among other Special Commissions and enquiries for the State). He was the inaugural
Independent National Security Legislation Monitor 2011 – 2014, and is a foundation fellow of the Australian
Academy of Law.
He was a director of the Sydney Writers’ Festival from 2000 to 2010. Mr Walker is the chairperson of Red
Room Poetry, a not-for-profit organisation promoting poetry in unusual and useful ways.
He was leading counsel in the ‘School Chaplains case’, Williams v Commonwealth of Australia (2012) 248
CLR 156 & Williams v Commonwealth of Australia (2014) 252 CLR 416.
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