The SA Chapter of The Hellenic Lawyers Association held the 2016 John Perry Oration on 23 September 2016 at the Adelaide Pavilion, Cnr South Terrace and Peacock Road, Adelaide.
Guests included the National Patron of the Association, The Hon. Chief Justice Chris Kourakis, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia, with guest speaker Mr Michael Abbott AO, QC.
Mr Abbott delivered the second John Perry Oration, which can be downloaded at this link.
The Hellenic Australian Lawyers Association held a well-attended Refugee Symposium and panel discussion on Thursday 8 September.
Panellists Mr Julian Burnside QC, Dr Maria O’Sullivan (Monash University) and Mr Kon Karapanagiotidis (ASRC) discussed contemporary refugee law considering the legal obligations faced in Australia and Abroad.
The event was held at the Melbourne Town Hall.
This year marks 200 years since the British Government controversially purchased the Parthenon Marbles from Lord Elgin and displayed them in the British Museum. The longstanding legal and diplomatic dispute about who owns them – Greece or the UK – continues to this day.
As Melbourne is home to one of the largest Greek diaspora communities in the world, it is fitting that the Hellenic Australian Lawyers Association (HAL) and Monash Law School are jointly hosting a moot court (simulated trial) and panel discussion on the dispute here.
It will be held on Wednesday 19 October 2016, with drinks and canapes from 5.30pm – 6.30pm, the moot court trial from 6.30pm – 7.15pm, concluding with a panel discussion and audience questions from 7.15pm – 8.00pm.
The location is Monash Law Chambers, 555 Londsdale Street, Melbourne, Victoria 3000.
Tickets are $20 Students (HAL members), $20 Students (non-members), $35 HAL members (other than students), and $50 for all other attendees.
Details of participants are outlined below.
Moot court:
Judges:
Counsel for Greece:
Counsel for the UK:
Panel discussion:
Moderator:
Monash University Panel:
HAL – Elefteria (Teri) Konstantinou
T: 0418 993 699 | E: teri@vicbar.com.au
Monash University – Chris Roberts, Industry and Experience Manager
T: 0403 232 645 | E: chris.roberts@monash.edu
The Queensland Chapter of the Hellenic Australian Lawyers Association was honoured on Friday 26 August 2016 with the delivery of the 2016 Clayton Utz Alexander Christy Freeleagus Oration by the Honourable Justice Susan Kiefel AC, Justice of the High Court of Australia.
Nearly 300 members of the Queensland and interstate legal, consular and Hellenic communities attended the Oration, held in the Banco Court at the Supreme Court of Queensland.
Guests included Judges of the State and Federal Courts, representatives of all national, state and territory Bar Associations, practitioners, academics, diplomats, students and other community members.
The Freeleagus Oration was established in 2015 by the Queensland Chapter of the Association in memory of Mr Freeleagus, who was a prominent Queensland Hellenic lawyer.
Mr Freeleagus served as a partner of what is now Clayton Utz for 39 years, spending more than 20 years as Clayton Utz’s senior Queensland partner.
He was also extremely active in the broader community, serving as Consul-General for Greece for 48 years and being involved in the founding of Brisbane’s Paniyiri and also the Greek Pavilion at World Expo 88.
Ross Perrett, a partner at Clayton Utz who worked closely with Mr Freeleagus, spoke at the Oration about Mr Freeleagus’ life, career and personal attributes.
Justice Kiefel, who is renowned for Her Honour’s scholarship in Comparative Law (having won the CJ Hampson Prize in Comparative Law during Her Honour’s time at the University of Cambridge), delivered a paper entitled “Legal influences – across centuries and borders”.
The speech by Justice Kiefel was very informative, wide-ranging and fascinating.
Following Justice Kiefel’s paper, the Honourable Justice Anthe Philippides, Queensland Patron of the Hellenic Australian Lawyers Association and Judge of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Queensland, closed proceedings and presented a commentary on Justice Kiefel’s paper.
The Hon Justice Susan Kiefel AC presented “Legal Influences – across centuries and borders” as the Alexander Christy Freeleagus Oration.
The Hon Justice A Philippides, Court of Appeal, presented a commentary on ‘Legal Influences – across centuries and borders’.
Ross Perrett, Partner at Clayton Utz, gave this address at the Alexander Christy Freeleagus Oration.
