Events

Slideshow presentation from Fenton Communications for the March 2024 Enhancing Engagement webinar.

This template was provided by Fenton Communications as part of our Enhancing Engagement webinar in March 2024.

These are the terms and conditions for the Victoria Law Foundation (VLF) Plain Language Workshops.

The Hon Murray Gleeson AC was the Chief Justice of the High Court of Australian between 1998 and 2008. Chief Justice Gleeson delivered the Law Oration just prior to his retirement.

Professor the Honourable Gareth Evans AC QC FASSA has been Chancellor of the Australian National University since January 2010. He was a Cabinet Minister in the Hawke and Keating Labor Governments from 1983 to 1996, in the posts of Attorney-General, Minister for Resources and Energy, Minister for Transport and Communications and – from 1988 to 1996 – Foreign Minister.

A Judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria since 1998, and Chief Justice since 2003, the Hon Chief Justice Marilyn Warren was awarded the Order of Australia Medal in 2005. This honour recognised her service to the judiciary and the legal profession, her service to the community in areas affecting the social and economic conditions of women, and to forensic medicine internationally.

At the time of presenting the oration, Mr Brouwer was the Victorian Ombudsman. He was appointed to the position in 2004. His term expired in March 2014.

The Attorney-General is the Member for Box Hill and is also the Attorney-General, Minister for Finance and Minister for Industrial Relations in the Victorian Government. Before entering Parliament, he was a solicitor practising in commercial, financial and labour law.

Justice Susan Crennan was appointed in November 2005 to the High Court of Australia, which is both the ultimate appeal court in Australia and the original jurisdiction under the Constitution. She had then served for almost two years as a judge on the Federal Court of Australia. In 2010, her Honour became an Inns of Court Fellow attached to the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University College, London.