๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฆ๐ถ๐ฟ ๐๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ป๐ธ ๐๐ถ๐๐๐ผ ๐๐ฒ๐ฐ๐๐๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฑ:
๐๐ฎ๐๐ฒ: 21 August
๐ง๐ถ๐บ๐ฒ: 11:30am
๐๐ผ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป: UNE Armidale Campus, JP Belshaw (LT1), EBL Building
๐ข๐ป๐น๐ถ๐ป๐ฒ: Zoom webinar (link and registration TBA)
"๐๐๐๐๐ฟ๐ฎ๐น๐ถ๐ฎ๐ป ๐๐ผ๐บ๐ฒ๐๐๐ถ๐ฐ ๐๐ฎ๐ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ป๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ป๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป๐ฎ๐น ๐๐ฟ๐ถ๐บ๐ถ๐ป๐ฎ๐น ๐๐ผ๐๐ฟ๐"
Presented by The Honourable Robert Thomas Beech-Jones, the lecture will cover the history of Australiaโs entry into the Rome Statute which established the International Criminal Court. His Honour will outline the interrelationship between domestic statute law and the Rome Statute with particular reference to the protections afforded to the ICC by domestic law and the possible implications for executive power and Australian citizens generally.
About the presenter.
๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ผ๐ป๐ผ๐๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ฏ๐น๐ฒ ๐ฅ๐ผ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ ๐ง๐ต๐ผ๐บ๐ฎ๐ ๐๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ต-๐๐ผ๐ป๐ฒ๐ was educated in Tasmania. He attended the Australian National University and graduated with a Bachelor of Science and a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) in 1988. He was admitted as a solicitor in that year and as a barrister in 1992. He was appointed Senior Counsel in 2006.
As a barrister he practised in the areas of Administrative Law, Commercial Law and regulatory enforcement.
He was engaged as one of the counsel assisting the Royal Commission into the collapse of the insurance company HIH. He also appeared for the Australian Securities and Investments Commission in the proceedings it brought against the Directors and Officers of the James Hardie group of companies arising out of its corporate restructures between 2001 and 2003.
In 2012 he was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales sitting in the Common Law Division.
From 2016 to 2018 he was President of the Judicial Conference of Australia.
On 31 August 2021 he was appointed Chief Judge of the Common Law Division and a Judge of Appeal.
On 6 November 2023 he was sworn in as a Justice of the High Court of Australia.
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