Prof Andrew Burrows QC, FBA, The Hon Justice de Jersey AC and Michael Stewart SC at the inaugural lecture of the Current Legal Issues Series.
	Professor Andrew Burrows QC, FCA, Norton Rose Prof. of Commercial law, Oxford University, presenting the inaugural lecture of the series.

Current Legal Issues is a new, high–profile series of seminars on contemporary legal issues commencing in 2009. The series is a collaboration between the University of Queensland’s TC Beirne School of Law and the Bar Association of Queensland. It seeks to bring together leading scholars, practitioners and members of the Judiciary in Queensland, other Australian jurisdictions and abroad, with a view to:

• providing a forum for the critical analysis and discussion of current legal issues;
• bringing to bear upon those issues the different perspectives offered by leading members of the Academy, profession and Judiciary;
• forging stronger links between academic and practising lawyers in Queensland.

Each seminar will comprise a Chair, Speaker, and Commentator. The Chair will introduce the Speaker and Commentator. A paper will then be presented by a leading practising or academic lawyer, and will be subject to a brief, expert commentary. The paper and a short profile of each participant, will be available in advance on this website to facilitate full discussion. 

Attendance is on a RSVP basis and numbers are restricted. To register your interest, please contact Helene Breene of the Queensland Bar Association at celeste@qldbar.asn.au.

All seminars take place between 5.30pm and 7pm in the Banco Court, Supreme Court of Queensland, Law Courts Complex, George Street, Brisbane.

The series has been accredited for CPD purposes by the Bar Association of Queensland and the Queensland Law Society. Reciprocal recognition arrangement normally exists as between the Bar Associations of Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria. Participants will accrue 1.5 CPD points per seminar in the unallocated strand unless otherwise advised.

Papers will be available in advance on this website, linked from the 2009 programme page. A hard copy will not be provided at the seminar itself, so you are encouraged to print and bring your own.