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In July 2015, Lyma Nguyen won the award for Best Advocate in the course, “Advocacy and Litigation before International Courts and Tribunals”, held at Universiteit Leiden at The Hague, the Netherlands. Lyma undertook this course as a part of her Churchill Fellowship, aimed at “building expertise in the practice of international criminal justice by examining the operation of international courts and preparing victim representation in…

Felicity Gerry KC yesterday supplied an Amicus Curiae brief on human trafficking law to the team acting for Mary Jane Veloso who is facing death penalty in Indonesia.Article 3 of the UN Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Particularly Women and Children sets out the definition of human trafficking which includes  coercion,…

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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…