Due to the current COVID restrictions in Victoria, the Victorian Chapter of HAL has decided to postpone the 4 August function “Observations from the Bench”, with the Honourable Justice Lex Lasry AM.
It is hoped to now hold the event in late October.
Members will be informed when a date has been finalised.
All persons who have registered and already paid for the 4 August event through Trybooking are entitled to a refund.
Andrew Panna QC Chair, Victorian Chapter of Hellenic Australian Lawyers Association
The South Australian Chapter of the Hellenic Australian Lawyers Association hosted a professional networking event for emerging legal practitioners to connect and share ideas and experiences with each other and with senior legal practitioners on the South Australian HAL committee.
Guests included The Honourable Chris Kourakis, Chief Justice of South Australia, as well as HAL SA Chapter Committee members Louis Leventis and Harry Patsias.
It was held at the 2KW Rooftop Bar & Restaurant in Adelaide on 24 June and attracted many participants.
This event presented a unique opportunity to inform, celebrate and promote Hellenic ideals, cultural harmony and diversity across the emerging legal profession and for emerging legal practitioners to consider the way in which such ideals continue to shape and benefit the legal profession now and in the future.
The Hellenic Australian Lawyers Association facilitated a presentation by the Honourable Justice Emilios Kyrou entitled “Pitfalls of Lawyers communicating with the media” online via Webex on 2 June 2021.
The Hellenic Australian Lawyers Association and the Agora Dialogue will jointly host an online webinar featuring Dr Helen Durham on “A contemporary portrait of the laws of war: what parables from Greek mythology teach us about past, present & future challenges” from 7PM (AEDT), Wednesday 17 March 2021.
The event is for HAL financial members and registered delegates for the 2020 HAL Rhodes conference.
A link to register for the webinar will be distributed in the near future.
Dr Helen Durham
Dr Helen Durham is Director of International Law and Policy at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) headquarters in Geneva.
In her role Dr Durham oversees a large global network of international lawyers, policy advisers, armed forces delegates, weapons specialists, sociologists, researchers and academic experts who work towards the respect of international humanitarian law (IHL).
Dr Durham regularly represents ICRC at venues such as the UN Security Council and in bi-lateral engagements with Ministers, senior government officials and military decision makers. In the past few years she has undertaken missions including Baghdad and wider Iraq, Ramallah, Tel Aviv, Nairobi, Moscow, Beijing, Dakar, London, Vienna, New Delhi and Brussels to engage on matters relating to the protection of civilians during times of armed conflict, in particular the protection of women.
Admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria and High Court of Australia, Dr Durham has a law degree with honours (Melbourne University) and a PhD (Melbourne University with research at New York) in international law, with a focus on International Humanitarian Law (IHL) and international criminal prosecution.
Dr Durham is widely published on IHL topics, in particular those relating to women and armed conflict. Dr Durham has been involved in ICRC operational work in the field (in Myanmar, Aceh, the Philippines and the Pacific) and has been part of negotiations for international treaties in New York, Geneva and Rome.
In 2014 Dr Durham was inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women, in 2015 she was awarded as an Australian Centenary Peacewoman and in 2017 she was appointed as an Officer of the Order of Australia.
Jointly hosted with Agora Dialogue
HAL will jointly host this Rhodes Online webinar with the Agora Dialogue.
Founded in Australia, Agora Dialogue is a not-for-profit, non-partisan, independent organisation. Since 2016 the organisation’s main operations are carried out in Europe, in particular in Cyprus.
Agora Dialogue is designed to encourage deeper reflection and reasoning, reinvigorating ideas such as justice, democracy, sustainability, fairness, equality, liberty, Agora Dialogue acts as a fulcrum for the development of a more attentive, sustainable and enriched society.
