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The Chief Justice, the President and the Judges of the Court of Appeal and Trial Division are called upon to speak from time to time upon various legal or associated topics. The following speeches and papers are made available to the legal profession and the general public.

These speeches and papers are copyright works. Permission is given for fair dealing with these speeches and papers as permitted under copyright legislation, including for the purpose of private study and research. Apart from those uses, no part may be reproduced without prior written permission.

  1. As featured in Issues in Australian Constitutional Law: Tributes to Professor Leslie Zines – Volume 2.

  2. Paper presented at the Trans-Tasman Human Rights Conference, August 2024. 

  3. 2022 Melbourne University Law Review annual lecture by the Hon. Justice Kristen Walker.

  4. A paper delivered at the Gilbert & Tobin Constitutional Law Conference on 9 February 2024 by the Hon. Justice Kristen Walker.

  5. A paper delivered at the National Conference of the Australian Association of Administrative Law in Adelaide on 28 July 2023.

  6. A speech by the Honourable Justice Macaulay delivered at Deakin University 28 August 2024.

  7. The Timeless Value of Insights and Wisdom - Justice O'Meara, Trans-Tasman Bar Conference, Queenstown, 16 August 2024

  8. Remarks of the Hon. Chief Justice Anne Ferguson, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria, on the occasion of an admission ceremony in the Banco Court 9.30am, Tuesday, 30 July 2024.

  9. Remarks of the Honourable Associate Justice Mary-Jane Ierodiaconou, at the Law Institute of Victoria's Welcome to the Profession event on Wednesday 20 March 2024. 

  10. Keynote address at the National Wellness for Law Forum 2024 on 15 February by the Hon. Chief Justice Ferguson.

  11. Remarks of the Honourable Associate Justice Mary-Jane Ierodiaconou, Melbourne at the launch of the 2023 Victoria Women Lawyers' Professional Mentoring Program in Melbourne. 

  12. Remarks of the Hon. Justice O'Meara, Victorian Bar Readers’ Dinner, Melbourne, 18 May 2023.

  13. Launch of the Victorian Chapter of Pride in Law, Supreme Court Library, Address of the Hon. Chief Justice Ferguson Thursday, 18 May 2023

  14. Remarks by the Hon. Chief Justice Ferguson at the ceremonial sitting of the Court of Appeal at the Bendigo Law Courts on Wednesday, 5 April 2023.

  15. Address by the Hon. Chief Justice Ferguson at the Law Institute of Victoria’s ‘Essential Briefing on the State of the Profession’ on Wednesday, 22 March 2023.

  16. Bendigo Law Courts Opening Address of the Hon. Chief Justice Ferguson on Friday, 24 February 2023.

  17. Remarks of the Honourable Associate Justice Mary-Jane Ierodiaconou, Melbourne.1

  18. Address of the Hon. Chief Justice Anne Ferguson at the 2022 Australian Bar Association Conference on 29 April 2022 at the State Library of Victoria.