The Francis Forbes Society - Upcoming lectures and tutorials
Fri Sep 01 2017Legal history
The upcoming lectures and tutorials are as follows:
· 28 September 2017: Justice Margaret Beazley AO, President of the Court of Appeal, will deliver the Annual Forbes Lecture on 28 September 2017 at 5.15pm in Banco Court, on the history of the Court of Appeal.
· 10 October 2017: The Honourable Keith Mason AC QC will present a lecture titled, ‘Sir Frederick Jordan’s brushes with ‘degenerate art’ on 10 October 2017 at 5.15pm in Banco Court.
· 18 October 2017: The next tutorial in the Society’s series of tutorials in Australian legal history will be presented by Chief Justice Bathurst on 18 October 2017 at 5.15pm in Banco Court. His Honour will be discussing the history of criminal law.
· 9 November 2017: Mark Tedeschi AM QC will deliver the Annual Plunkett Lecture on 9 November 2017 at 5.15pm in the NSW Bar Association Common Room, to be chaired by the Attorney General, the Honourable Mark Speakman SC. Mr Tedeschi is the Senior Crown Prosecutor in New South Wales and the author of ‘Murder at Myall Creek: The Trial that Defined a Nation’, published by Simon & Schuster in 2016. Mr Tedeschi will deliver a lecture titled ‘John Hubert Plunkett QC and the Myall Creek murder trials.’