Previous Conferences

-2001 University of the South Pacific
-2002 Murdoch University
-2003 Griffith University
-2004 Charles Darwin University
-2005 The University of Waikato
-2006 Victoria University
-2007 University of Western Australia
-2008 James Cook University, Cairns

 

 

 
Programme

Sunday 29th September

Monday 30th September

Tuesday 1st October

Interest Groups:

- Criminal Law
- Dispute Resolution
- Equity & Trusts
- Evidence & Procedure
- International Law
- Labour Law
- Law & Social Justice
- Legal Education
- Revenue Law
- Torts & Contracts

Wednesday 2nd October

Conference Re-cap

 
 

 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
2002 ALTA Conference
 


Tuesday 1st October

Time:

 

8.45am -9.30am

ALTA AGM 

 

9.30am -10.30am

 Plenary Session 2
Speaker: The Hon Justice Marcus Einfield AO QC PhD Former Justic of the Federal Court of Australia

 
10.30am -11.00am  BREAK FOR MORNING TEA

 
11.00am -2.30pm

Concurrent Interest Group Sessions

Legal Education (1): Robyn Carroll (Convener)

·    Patrick Keyzer (UTS)
Solving Constitutional Problems

·    Paula Darvas (Monash)
The role of law teachers in cultural change: Can we incorporate 'Corporate Social Responsibility' into the law curriculum?

·    Elizabeth Handsley & Gary Davis (Flinders)
Large classes, small groups: a winning combination

Revenue Law (1):  Dale Pinto (Convener)

·    Prafula Fernandez (CUT)
Tax Policies for Multinational Enterprises (MNEs)

·    Ian Iredale (UWS)
Transforming the Way we Record and Access the Law: Whitfords Beach Revisited

·    Ken Devos (Monash)
Taxation Offences under the Tax Administration Act (1953) and their relevant penalties and sanctions

Law & Social Justice:  Rick Sarre (Convener)

·    Rick Sarre (UofSA)
Corporate culture and industrial manslaughter

·    Rebecca La Forgia & Martin Flynn (Flinders & UWA)
Australia's Pacific Solution to Asylum Seekers

·    Christopher Kendall (Murdoch)
Lesbian and Gay Refugees: Why '"Discretion"  is not a Human Rights Option

Equity & Trusts: Wendy Harris (Convener)

·    Melinda Shirley & Wendy Harris (CUT)
Assuring Quality in the Assessment of negotiation Skills- a Case Study in the teaching of Trusts

·    James Edelman (UWA)
The "fusion fallacy' fallacy

 

12.30pm -1.30pm

 BREAK FOR LUNCH, Amenities Building

1.30pm - 3.00pm  Concurrent Interest Group Sessions
 

Legal Education (2): Robyn Carroll (Convener)

·    Jennifer Nielsen (Southern Cross)
Teaching Equal Employment Opportunity and trying to avoid lipservice

·    William Willesee (Curtin)
Blackboard vs WebCT 2002

·    Michael Adams, David Barker & Judie Lancaster (UTS)
Business Law and Ethics- does it have a future?

 

Revenue Law (2): Ben Clarke (Convener)

·    Dale Pinto (Curtin)
Through the World's Eye: Governance in a Globalised World

·    Rodney Fisher (UNSW)
When is an assessment not an assessment?: The Commissioner and the self-assessment regime

 

Torts & Contract (1):  Des Butler (Convener)

·    Des Butler (QUT)
Through the Looking Glass: Is it Time for a Tort of Privacy in Australia?
 

·    Normann Witzleb (Auckland)
Protecting corporations from intrusive media practices- A German perspective

 

·    Lawrence McNamara (Macquarie)
Allegations of Criminal Offences and the Laws of Defamation: Geoff Clark, Terry O'Shane, John Marsden, Michael Kirby & George Pell
 

Dispute Resolution:

·    Rountable: Recent Developments in Teaching and Practising Mediation

 

3.00pm -3.30pm

 BREAK FOR AFTERNOON TEA

3.30pm -4.30pm

 Concurrent Interest Group Sessions

Criminal Law/Evidence & Procedure:  Sally Kift & Eilis Magner (Conveners)

·    Thomas Crofts (Murdoch)
Assessing the criminal responsibility of children

·    Wendy Harris (QUT)
Truth of Confession on the voir dire

 

International Law (2): Rick Sarre (Convener)

·    Alex Conte
Terror meets Tyranny? The interface between counter terrorism and human rights

·    Ben Clarke
International Law- What is it good for?

Torts & Contract (2): Des Butler (Convener)

·    Michael Gillooly (UWA)
The Third Man and Defamation Law Reform- The Australasian Truth Based Defences

·    Robert Forbes & Sonja Walker (Murdoch)
Third Parties and Contracts- The continuing Relevance of Privacy Concerns to the Contract Law of Australia

Labour Law: Tony Buti (Convener)

·    Gordon Anderson (VUW)
Transplanting Good Faith to New Zealand: Experience under the Employment Relations Act 2000

·    Tony Buti (Murdoch)
Salary Caps and Employment Law in Professional Sports

 

4.30pm

Return Transfer to Hotels

7.15pm - 11.30pm

 Publishers Dinner, Blues Brothers Theme