Timetable

Wednesday 20 October 2010
18:00 - 19:30 Welcome Reception
Thursday 21 October 2010
08:45 - 09:15 Opening Ceremony Welcome to Country Congress Welcome - Judge Robertson DCJ Official Congress Opening - The Honourable Cameron Dick MP, Queensland Attorney-General
09:15 - 10:30 Keynote Address The Honourable Paul de Jersey AC, Chief Justice of Queensland Commentator: The Honourable Justice Patrick A Keane, Chief Justice, Federal Court of Australia
10:30 - 11:00 Morning Tea
11:00 - 12:30 Developments in the science of the mind and its implications for the criminal law Chair: Judge Robertson Dr Ian Curtis, Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist Queensland Professor Maxwell Bennet AO, Director Brain and Mind Research Institute, University of Sydney Commentator: The Honourable Justice Anthe I Philippides, Judge, Supreme Court of Queensland
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:30 Internet Crime - should we turn off the Internet? Chair: Judge Richards Detective Superintendent Brian Hay, Fraud and Corporate Crime Group Graham Ingram, General Manager, AusCERT
15:30 - 16:00 Afternoon Tea
16:00 - 17:15 Public Confidence and Sentencing: Recent developments in research Chair: Justice Lyons Professor Geraldine Mackenzie, Bond University Professor Kate Warner, University of Tasmania
Friday 22 October 2010
09:00 - 10:30 Interdiction or Decriminalisation - What works with drug crime? Chair: Judge Butler Dr Joao Goulão, Chairman of the Institute on Drugs and Drug Addiction and National Coordinator on Drugs Wayne Hall, University of Queensland Centre for Clinical Research
10:30 - 11:00 Morning Tea
11:00 - 12:30 The Gangland Murder Trials Chair: Terry O'Gorman Justice King QC, Victorian Supreme Court Commentator: Chris Nyst, Solicitor Queensland
13:00 Long Lunch: Ricky's Registration required
Saturday 23 October 2010
09:00 - 10:30 International Criminal Court update Chair: Todd Fuller Professor Roger S. Clark, Board of Governors Professor, Rutgers University School of Law Commentator: Kenneth Fleming QC
10:30 - 11:00 Morning Tea
11:00 - 12:30 Modern Legislation: Taking Liberties with Language Chair: Leigh Rollason Julian Burnside AO QC, Barrister Commentator: Justice Daubney, Supreme Court of Queensland (TBC)
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:30 Therapeutic jurisprudence initiatives in Australia and NZ - and the overseas experience Chair: Judge Dick Magistrate King, Magistrates Court of Western Australia, Kununurra Commentator: Sir David Carruthers, former Chief Judge District Court of New Zealand and current President of the New Zealand Parole Board
15:30 - 16:00 Afternoon Tea
16:00 - 17:15 Legal Discourse - Does it mean anything? Chair: Carl Heaton Professor Roland Sussex, University of Queensland Commentator: Judge Robertson, District Court of Queensland; and Judge Elizabeth Gaynor, County Court of Victoria
19:00 - 23:30 Congress Gala Dinner Dinner Speaker: Justice Martin, Supreme Court of Queensland
Sunday 24 October 2010
09:30 - 11:30 Criminal Justice and the Indigenous People of Australia: legal issues arising out of the Arukun and Palm Island cases Chair: Peter Callaghan QC Peter Davis SC, Barrister Andrew Boe, Barrister
11:30 - 12:00 Close of Congress

Last updated: Friday, 15 October 2010