Barrister at Law, Former Chairman of Brisbane Partners, Minter Ellison Lawyers, Former Director GIO, Past President RACQ.

Recent papers available online:

• "Legal Ethics in Practice" (2006)
• "Aspects of the Law of Good Faith" (2006)

Partner, Minter Ellison, Brisbane; Member, Council of The Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for the State of Queensland; Trade Practices Committee for the Law Council of Australia; Advisory Committee to the Board of the Mater Medical Research Institute; past Chairman, ATUG Queensland Branch Committee; Advisory Committee to the State Minister under Credit Societies Act. Delivered a series of seminars on behalf of IP Australia (the Commonwealth Trademarks and Patents Office) to major universities in Queensland on Intellectual Property Protection, Management and Commercialisation.

Former inaugural judge, Court of Appeal, Supreme Court of Queensland, Chairman, Litigation Reform Commission, Solicitor-General (Qld), President, Queensland Bar Association, President, Australian Bar Association, Vice-President, Law Council of Australia, Member, Organizing Committee and Academic Program Committee, XVI Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law, Member, Family Law Court Committee on Self-Represented Litigants, Consultant, Committee of the Review of the Law of Negligence, Member, Council of the Australian Institute Judicial Administration, Member, Advisory Group, Australian Institute Judicial Administration, Appellate Case Management Research Project, Consultant, Review of the Civil Justice System in England and Wales (The Woolf Report), Consultant, Review of the Civil Justice System in Northern Ireland, Acting Chairman, Advisory Board of the Centre for Legal Process, New South Wales, Member, Advisory Group, Civil Justice Review Project, Department of Justice, Victoria, Member, Advisory Group, Australian Law Reform Commission, Chairman, Queensland Bar Practice Centre Member, Legal Aid Commission, Officer of the Order of Australia.

Special counsel, de Groot Wills & Estate Lawyers, Chair, Succession Law Special Accreditation Advisory Committee of Queensland Law Society; former Director of Legal Practice, Queensland University of Technology; former Equity Partner, Morris Fletcher Cross (now Minter Ellison).

Partner, Clayton Utz.

Former Justice, Supreme Court of Queensland; President, Medical Tribunal (Qld); Elections Tribunal (Qld); President, Land Appeals Court (Qld); Mental Health Tribunal (Qld); President, Supreme Court Library Committee; Member, Australian Cross-Vesting Legislation Monitoring Committee; Vice President, Bar Association of Queensland; President and Life Member, Medico-Legal Society of Queensland.

Room: W331 Forgan Smith Building, Telephone: (07) 3365 9785, Hours: Mondays 8.30 - 9.30am.

Roger Derrington S.C., BA/LLB, Barrister-at-law, Senior Counsel; Graduated from the T.C. Beirne School of Law University of Queensland in 1986 with first class honours; Admitted as a barrister of the Supreme Court of Queensland in 1986; Awarded the Sir Robert Menzies Scholarship in Law in 1986; Read for the degree of Bachelor of Civil Laws at Worcester College, Oxford from 1987 to 1989; Associate to the Hon Justice Brennan of the High Court of Australia in 1990; Commenced practice as a barrister in 1990; Appointed Senior Counsel in and for the State of Queensland in 2004; Practises primarily in the areas of Equity, Commercial Law and Administrative Law; Member of the Commercial Law Sub-committee of the Queensland Bar Association; Member of the Commercial Litigation Accreditation Committee of the Queensland Law Society; Lectured at the University of Queensland in conflict of laws; drafting; trusts; insurance; commercial law.

Assistant Commissioner of Taxation, Senior Tax Counsel, Australian Taxation Office; former tax partner Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu; lecturer in taxation law (masters program); barrister; chartered accountant

Founding Executive Director of the Oceans Institute of Canada; Professor of Maritime Law, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada, 1977-1994;past President of the Canadian Maritime Law Association; former member of the Board of Governors, World Maritime University, Malmo, Sweden; member, Governing Board, International Maritime Law Institute, Malta; Adjunct Professor, World Maritime University, Malmo, Sweden and Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada

Partner, Minter Ellison, Brisbane; Member, National Partnership Board, Minter Ellison; Deputy Chair, Queensland Transmission and Supply Corporation; Chair, Audit Committee (QTSC); Deputy Chair, Stanwell Corporation Limited; Chair, Risk Management Committee (Stanwell); Chair, SunWater (a government owned corporation responsible for the ownership and management of Queensland's water assets); Director, National Institute for Law Ethics and Public Affairs; Member Advisory Board, Mater Medical Research Institute; Deputy Chair, Qld Writers' Festival; Member, Governing Council, Brisbane Boys College

Professor, University of Adelaide Law School (1967–1984); Research Associate, Max-Planck-Institute for Foreign Private and Private International Law, Hamburg (1990–1998); Lecturer in Comparative Law, Adelaide Law School (1999–2005); Visiting Research Professor, University of Adelaide Law School (2005–2007). Academic interests: contract, comparative law, legal history, legal method.

Recent papers available online:

• "Statutory interpretation: new comparative dimensions" (2005)
• "Ulrich Hübbe or Robert Torrens? The Germans in early South Australia" (2005)
• "Simultaneity and successiveness in contracting" (2007)

Partner, Allens Arthur Robinson, Brisbane; Director and Past President of the Banking and Financial Services Law Association; Past Chairman, Infrastructure Association of Queensland Inc; Lecturer in Infrastructure Law; Author Foreign Investment in Australia; Author Joint Venture Laws of Australia.

Former Judge of the Court of Appeal Queensland 1991-2001, former Judge of the Federal Court of Australia 1985-1991.

Room: W331 Forgan Smith Building, Telephone: (07) 3346 9067

A partner of national law firm, Sparke Helmore, Phillip is the National Practice Group leader for the Business, Government and Technology team. Before joining Sparke Helmore, he was a Deputy Director and Senior Government Solicitor with the NSW Office of Australian Government Solicitor, where, among other things, he headed the Business and Commercial Team.

Phillip received the Law Society of NSW Excellence Award in Government Legal Service in 1998.

Mr Robert Wensley QC
QC, BE (Chem)(Hons) Qld., LLB (Hons) Qld., MEngSc Qld.

Robert Wensley QC, is a Brisbane barrister. He specialises in commercial litigation, arbitration and mediation, with emphasis on building, construction, engineering and technology-related disputes, acting both as counsel and arbitrator, mediator, appraiser or court-appointed referee on a regular basis. Mr Wensley is a former member and chairperson of the Queensland Building Tribunal, and has served as an acting judge. Currently Mr Wensley is a member of the Senate ( Governing Body) of the University of Queensland, elected by graduates, and is the Deputy Chancellor of the University

Previously, Lieutenant Commander in the Royal Australian Navy. Graduated B.Com. (1973 Qld) and LLB (1974 Qld) and, later, PhD (Law) (1994, Bond) with a thesis on marine pollution laws. Barrister for 24 years in Brisbane, and made Queen's Counsel in 1988. Full time academic at UQ from 1999 – 2004 at TC Beirne School of Law, former Executive Director of The Centre for Maritime Law, now The Marine & Shipping Law Unit. Has published widely in maritime law and history and has held and holds various offices in maritime and other organizations.

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