Print version| 30 April | Title: | "The Australian Law of Restitution: has the High Court Lost its Way?" |
| Speaker: | Professor Andrew Burrows QC, FBA, Norton Rose Professor of Commercial Law, University of Oxford. | |
| Commentator: | Mr David Jackson QC Comment to be delivered in absentia by Professor Ross Grantham, Dean, TC Beirne School of Law | |
| Chair: | The Hon Justice de Jersey AC, Chief Justice of Queensland | |
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| 21 May | Title: | “Estoppel by Convention and the Sanctity of Contract” |
| Speaker: | Mr John McKenna SC | |
| Commentator: | The Hon Justice Keane, Queensland Court of Appeal | |
| Chair | Professor Ross Grantham, Dean, TC Beirne School of Law | |
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| 11 June | Title: | “Directors' Duties in the Zone of Insolvency” |
| Speaker: | Mr John Sheahan SC | |
| Commentator: | Dr Andrew Johnston, Senior Lecturer, TC Beirne School of Law | |
| Chair: | Mr Ken MacDonald, Allens Arthur Robinson | |
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| 30 July | Title: | “The admissibility and use of relationship and propensity evidence after HML v The Queen (2008) 245 ALR 204” |
| Speaker: | Dr David Hamer, TC Beirne School of Law | |
| Commentator: | The Hon Justice Holmes, Queensland Court of Appeal | |
| Chair: | Mr Peter Davis SC | |
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| 17 Sept | Title: | “Judicial attitudes to judicial review: A comparative examination of justifications offered for restricting the scope of judicial review in Australia, Canada and England”. |
| Speaker: | Dr Anthony Cassimatis, TC Beirne School of Law | |
| Commentator: | The Hon Justice Kiefel, High Court of Australia | |
| Chair: | Mr Walter Sofronoff QC, Solicitor General for Queensland | |
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