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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. The speech 'Case management in the Commercial Court and under the Civil Procedure Act' was given by the Hon. Justice Croft at the Civil Procedure Act 2010 Conference on 30 November 2010.

  2. The speech 'Summary Judgment Part 4.4 of the Civil Procedure Act' was given by the Hon. Justice Croft at the Judicial College of Victoria Civil Procedure Workshop for judges on 19 November 2010.
  3. A presentation by the Hon. Justice Clyde Croft at the Financial Review International Dispute Resolution Conference 2010, Sydney.

  4. A paper presented by the Hon. Justice Clyde Croft at the Commercial Court CPD and CLE Seminar – Aon Risk Services Australia Ltd v ANU [2009] HCA 27: What does this mean for litigation and how will it affect trial preparation?

  5. A presentation by the Hon. Justice Clyde Croft for the Rabbinical Arbitration Course, Melbourne.

  6. The speech 'Therapeutic Jurisprudence: First Steps in the Supreme Court' was given by the Hon. Justice Maxwell, President of the Court of Appeal, to the AIJA Conference on Non-Adversarial Justice on 5 May 2010.

  7. The following paper 'Victorian Administrative Law Update' was given by the Hon. Justice Kyrou on 13 November 2009 at the 14th Annual Public Law Weekend at the Centre for International and Public Law, ANU College of Law.

  8. The speech 'A New Approach to Criminal Appeals' was given by the Hon. Justice Maxwell, President of the Court of Appeal, on 7 October 2009 to the Victorian Bar.

  9. The following Speech "Reflections of a Solicitor on the Supreme Court Bench" is an abridged version of the speech given by the Hon. Justice Kyrou on 20 June 2009 at the Annual Dinner of the Society of Notaries of Victoria.

  10. The following speech titled 'Criminalisation of Cartel Conduct, Some Pre-Trial Management Issues' was given by the Hon Justice Weinberg on 3 April 2009 at the joint Federal Court of Australia and Law Council of Australia workshop in Adelaide.

  11. The speech titled 'The Move Towards Preemption in the Criminal Law' was given by the Hon. Justice Weinberg on 20 February 2009 at the Law Summer School program under the auspices of the Law Society of Western Australia and the University of Western Australia.

  12. Speech given by the Hon. Justice Lasry on 24 November 2008.
  13. The following speech 'Enhancing Australian democracy with a Federal Charter of Rights and Responsibilities' was given by the Hon Justice Bell on 20 November 2008 to Australian Institute of Administrative Law (Victorian Chapter).

  14. The speech titled "The Current and Proposed Criminal Jurisdiction of the Federal Court" was given by the Hon Justice Weinberg on 5 September 2008 at the Federal Criminal Law Conference in Sydney.
  15. The following document is the speech titled 'A New Approach - the new Building Cases Practice Note' given by the Hon Justice Byrne on 9 April 2008.
  16. For the major part of its history, Court 4 has been used for the most serious criminal trials conducted in the Supreme Court. At the official re-opening of Court 4 in 2008, after its renovation and restoration, Justice Frank Vincent spoke about the history of the courtroom and the many trials conducted within its four walls.

  17. The speech 'A New Approach to Civil Appeals' given by the Hon. Justice Maxwell, President of the Court of Appeal, on 23 October 2006 to the Victorian Bar (Continuing Legal Education program).

  18. The speech 'Monash University Faculty of Law, Graduation Ceremony' was given by the Hon. Justice Bell on 4 May 2006 at Robert Blackwood Hall.
  19. The speech titled 'The Building Cases List of the Supreme Court of Victoria' was given by the Hon. Justice Habersberger on 16 November 2005 at the Building Dispute Practitioners' Society Inc.

  20. The speech titled 'Human Rights: A View from the Bench' was given by the Hon. Justice Maxwell, the President of the Court of Appeal on 26 October 2005 as an Address to the Annual General Meeting of the Administrative Law and Human Rights section of the Law Institute of Victoria.