Level: Essential CLE units: 2
Speakers:
Dr Melissa Perry QC, 6th Floor, Selborne/Wentworth Chambers
Dr David Bennett AO QC, 5th Floor, Wentworth Chambers
Brenda Tronson, Barrister, 6th Floor, Selborne/Wentworth Chambers
This CLE provides a valuable overview of key constitutional developments in the High Court in 2009 and 2010 as distinguished practitioners discuss hot issues and possible future developments in constitutional law.
- Dr Melissa Perry QC speaks broadly on the High Court’s constitutional decisions in the 2009 term and comments on some of the judicial power consequences of these decisions.
- Dr David Bennett AO QC adresses the Pape decision in
‘Pape v Commissioner of Taxation – 7 issues and 7 judges – 49 cases in one’. - Brenda Tronson traces the development and 2009 resurgence of the
Kable principle.
Chair: Rebecca Welsh, Lecturer, UNSW Faculty of Law and CLE Representative of the NSW Young Lawyers, Public Law and Government Committee.
