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

Tuesday 5th July

 Wednesday 6th July

 Thursday 7th July

Interest Groups:
 - Clinical Legal Education
- Commercial Law and Consumer Protection
- Company Law
- Comparative and Asian Law
- Constitutional Law
- Contract and Tort
- Criminal Law
- Dispute Resolution
- Evidence and Procedure
- Family Law
- Indigenous Peoples and the Law
- International Law
- Labour Law
- Law and Computers
- Legal Education
- Legal Research and Communication
- Property Law
- South Pacific Legal Studies

Friday 8th July

Conference Re-cap
 
 

 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
2005 ALTA Conference

 
  


Thursday 7th July

Time:

 

 

Morning Venue:
WEL Energy Trust Academy of Performing Art

 

8:30am – 4:00pm

Registration Desk open

 

9:00am – 11:00am

Plenary Session Two:

“Law and Terror” 

Speakers: 

·      Rt. Hon. Sir Kenneth Keith, New Zealand Supreme Court
·      Associate Professor Jennifer Hocking, Monash University, Australia
·      Professor Alexander Gillespie, University of Waikato

 

11:00am – 11:30am

Morning Tea

11:30am – 1:00pm

Interest Groups: Round Three
 

Legal Education: Paul Moyle (Convener)

·      Mandy Shircore:
Best Teaching Practices in First year Law Subjects

·      Sally Kift:
Engaging Law Students in transition as if retention and learning really matters

·      Petra Butler:
Legal Education at UOV: student experience 

International Law: Dan Svantesson (Convener)

·      Alberto Costi:
 Subjects of International Law: Fostering Workable Models of Accountability of International Organisations

·      Dan Svantesson:
The relation between public and private international law in the Internet context

·      Geoffrey Fisher:
Sharia Law and Choice of law clauses in International Contracts 

Contract and Tort: Des Butler (Convener)

·      Prue Vines:
Policy, policing and the duty of care

·      Robert Langton:
Proportionality liability for errors in corporate financial statements

·      Mohd-Altaf Ahangar:
Broadening Horizons of Qualified Privilege: Desirability of One Law For All
 

Indigenous Peoples and the Law: Phil Falk (Convener)

·      Matiu Dickson:
Waiata Maori as a Legal Textbook

·      Phil Falk:
Life in a luckly country! - A fair go for everyone…so who stole our Wages!

·      Linda Te Aho:
Waimaori – Freshwater

·      James Mcdonald:
Special Cultural Laws for Indigenous Peoples or "One Law for All?"

 Comparative and Asian Law: Daniel Fitzpatrick (Convener)

·      Andrew Clark:
A Review of Australia's Shareholder Model of Corporate Governance: Balancing  Regional Versus Free Trade Paradigms

·      Ian Dobinson:
The Criminalisation of the Falun Gong: A Case Study in Chinese Law-Making

·      Sheikh Solaiman:
Current Legal Battle Between the Executive and the Judiciary for Judicial Independence in Bangladesh: A Politico-Legal Analysis

 

1:00pm – 2:15pm

Lunch

 

Afternoon Venue:
Waikato Management School

2:30pm – 4:00pm

Interest Groups: Round Four
 

Legal Education: Paul Moyle (Convener)

·    Melissa Simpson:
Improving student performance in company law: a reflective view

·    Sue Tappenden:
Creating an effective learning environment

·   Terry Hutchinson:
Exploring Legal Research Methodologies

Commercial and Consumer Protection: Susan Watson (Convener)

·      Angelo Veljanovski:
Current Developments in Partnership Law in Australia: the introduction of the incorporated limited liability partnership

·      Gehan Gunasekara:
Regulating Business Format Franchising: A Company Law Paradigm

·      Michael Josling:
Leave to continue proceedings against bankrupts

·      Andrew Tuch:
Effectiveness of Chinese Walls in Australia and England

 Company Law: Anil Hargovan (Convener)

·      Josephine Coffey:
 One Law for All No More - The Demise of Common Law Contractual Obligation

·      Sheikh Solaiman:
Adoption of the Disclosure Philosophy for Investor Protection Securities Markets: Counting the Chickens before they are Hatched

·      Aiman Mohd-Solaiman:
The Financial Assistance Reform Proposal

Constitutional Law: John Hopkins (for Patrick Keyzer)

·      Jessie Homann:
All' is Not as it Should Be: The Exclusion of  Non-Citizen from the Australian Legal System

·      Hanna Wilberg:
Presumptions, mandatory considerationsor legitimate expectations: giving effect to the Treaty of Waitangi

·      Emma Henderson:
The Politics of Exclusion: the HR Act, Asylum and the New Humanitarianism in the UK

Criminal Law: Ian Dobinson (Convener)

·      Lynne Weathered:
International Issues in Addressing Wrongful Conviction

·      David Brown:
The Shifting Contexts of Criminal Justice Reform

Jurisprudence and Legal Philosophy:

·      Grant Morris:
Legal References in NZ Fiction: The NZ Law in Literature Project

·      Michael Stokes:
The Tort of Seduction? Law and the Devaluation of Human Relations

·      Gay Morgan:
Looking at Wrongs instead of Rights: Shared Bads

 South Pacific Legal Studies: Jennifer Corrin  (Convener)

·      Sue Farran:
Constructing Human Rights in the SP region

·      Jennifer Corrin:
Pluralism and Penalties

·      Arthur Faerua & Joseph Foukouna:
Intervention, Facilitation, Assistance & Cooperation: Exploring the status of Regional intervention forces

·      John Mugambwa:
The Saga of the Cooperative movement in Papua New Guinea

Dispute Resolution: Marilyn Scott (Convener)

·      Patsi Davies:
Engaging with Reflection: The Use of Learning Journals in a Tertiary Education Setting

·      Les Arthur:
Beyond the Rule of Law: Alternative DR and the Appropriate Jurisdiction of the NZ Insurance and Savings Ombudsman 

·      David Spencer:
The Diminishing Trial: A NSW Perspective

 Comparative and Asian Law: Daniel Fitzpatrick (Convener)

·      Colin Hawes:
Corporate Culture with Chinese Characteristics: Preliminary Analysis of Findings  from Major Chinese Corporations' Websites

·      Ann Black & Jamila Hussain:
Islamic Law: should it be taught in Australian Law Schools and how?

 Evidence and Procedure: Kay Lauchland (Convener)

·      Brenda Midson:
Evidence Reform: A Proposal for Substantive Justice

·      Kay Lauchland:
Practical Procedure - Dancing with Documents

·      Kalman Datt:
The Conflict between deposits and security deposits for the purposes of the Australian GST

 Property Law: Penny Carruthers (Convener)

·      Janice Gray:
Policy objectives and the commodification of water

·      Uche Jack Osmiri:
Nature of Native Land Title and Compensation for Compulsory Acquisition

 Family Law: Sarah Middleton (Convener)

·      John Wade:
Representing Clients at Negotiation and Mediation of Family Property Disputes

·      Ruth Busch:
Making Parenting Orders within a Context of Domestic Violence: A Critical Analysis  of 'Tacit Collusion' in New Zealand case law

 Labour Law: Joseph Cleworth & Marilyn Pittard (Conveners)

·      Pam Nuttall & Felicity Reid:
Employee or contractor? Bryson in the Supreme Court

·      Peter Gillies:
Internal Dispute Resolution within the University

·      Louise Floyd:
One for All: The Global Village of Labour Law?

·      William Ford:
Politics, the Constitution and Australian Industrial Relations: Pursuing a Unified   National System

 Law and Computers: John Selby (Convener)

·      Ian Cream:
Defamation in Cyberspace: which problems? Whose rules?

·      John Selby:
Online Defamation: Removing the Veil of Anonymity

·      Ian Iredale:
The Role of Computers in Judicial Reasoning and Analysis

·      Dan Svantesson:
The Legal Implications of Geo-identification
 

4:00pm – 4:30pm

Afternoon Tea

6:30pm – 7:00pm

Transfers from City Hotels to dinner venue

7:00pm – 11:00pm

Conference Dinner: The Narrows Landing