NTBA in association with Charles Darwin University Dili Timor Leste Conference
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I am delighted to announce that Lyma Nguyen has joined William Forster Chambers. Lyma holds Bachelor Degrees in Arts and in Law and a Masters of Law. She also has French and Vietnamese language skills.Lyma has practised both domestically and internationally in the areas of criminal law, civil reparations and human rights law. In Australia, she worked…
Professor Les McCrimmon of William Forster Chambers appeared for the Respondent in the NT Court of Appeal in Want v Blackbear (NT) Pty Ltd [2014] NTCA 3. The appeal related to the termination of a building contract, and in particular the wording of the notice required to terminate such a contract. The Respondent successfully argued that the…
William Forster Chambers is proud to announce that it is offering two scholarships to complete the inaugural Northern Territory Bar Readers’ Course. These scholarships are valued at $1500 (incl GST) each, being half of the course cost. The Bar Readers’ Course is modelled on the Victorian Bar Readers’ Course. It will run on the evening of Friday 18…
Darwin’s leading barristers chambers recently continued its tradition of involvement in the local community to volunteer in the training of Darwin’s Forensic Science Expert Evidence Workshop run by the Australian and New Zealand Policing Advisory Agency National Institute of Forensic Science. On behalf of William Forster Chambers, Mark Johnson and Bronwyn Haack gave up a Saturday to…
In June 2013, Duncan McConnel became President-Elect of the Law Council of Australia, the peak body for all Australian lawyers, and will become President on January 1, 2015. Duncan has been a director of the Law Council since 2009 and has served on many of its committees including its Indigenous Legal Issues Committee; Commonwealth Compensation…
The Northern Territory Court of Appeal has struck down the declared drug trafficker provisions in the Misuse of Drugs Act and the Criminal Property Forfeiture Act as being unconstitutional. These provisions required the Supreme Court to declare a person who committed three drug offences over ten years to be a “drug trafficker”. The result of…