All correspondence to:
The Warden Bar Practice Centre
Brisbane College of Advanced Education P.O. Box 117
Kedron
Queensland 4031 Australia
Telephone: (07) 357 5716 (07) 357 7077 Telex: QNBX AA42196
Cnr Park Rd & Kedron Park Rd, Kedron, Brisbane, Queensland. 1987
BAR PRACTICE CENTRE
PROSPECTUS
FOREWORD
Before 1960 there was not perceived at the Queensland Bar any need for a formal system of practical training for young barristers because the small- ness of the bar of those years ensure.d that all juniors knew all seniors well.
The rule was that a new man squatted in a senior man's chambers until he could locate and afford chambers of his own. Many barristers acted as part-time lecturers for the University Law School and students came early in their course to know the practising bar. The pace at the bar was slower than it later became. The young barrister had plenty of opportunity to question, to talk with and to observe more experienced persons; he also had more time.
During the first part of the nineteen sixties the Bar Association started developing a system of pupillage and this came into force in 1965. It has continued ever since with considerable success but discernible deficiencies.
One deficiency is the absence of a permanent administrator to arrange lectures, to keep records and to ensure, as even the most enthusiastic and hard-working Pupillage Committee Convenor cannot ensure, that the system is properly administered. At least as early as 1971 the Committee of the Bar Association was considering some sort of joint venture with a tertiary educational institution in which that institution would provide certain resources, particularly administrative, while the Bar would provide other resources, particularly experienced lecturers.
This is not the place to trace the history of the Bar Committee's endeavours to put in place a practical training course for barristers. It is enough to say that the Brisbane College of Advanced Education, and especially its School of Business, has readily accommodated our aspirations both with bricks and mortar and with administrative assistance.
The Kedron Park Campus is conveniently located and it contains all the physical facilities that are required. In particular, it houses a real court room, which is actually the reconstruction of the old Industrial Court in the State Buildings adjoining Anzac Square. I expect that the College's resources in electronics will be of inestimable value to the worth of the Centre's course - even the young barristers of the leisurely pre-war days were never lucky enough to be able to examine their performances critically on a television screen! The College has also made available the services of Kenneth Rhodes, a full-time member of the faculty and a practising barrister, and of his secretary. Those services will, in my opinion, ensure that the course is properly nurtured and does not, like so many well intentioned efforts of the bar, wither on the vine for want of husbandry. The first course will be offered to recent entrants to the ranks of the practising bar. I hope that it will not be long before the Rules Relating to the Admission of Barristers are amended to make completion of the course a necessary part of Stage Six of the requirements for admission to the Bar.
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There are good reasons why the course should generally be taken before actual admission; after admission pupillage should sufficiently refine the new barrister's skills. Former readers of the course will in any event be welcome to return to take part in the activities of a current course although it is hoped they will notify the Warden of their intention to do so. I should hope that by 1985 the Bar Practice Centre is undertaking continuing practical training for all members of the Bar.
It is to be emphasised that the Bar Practice Centre is not a platform for the presentation of learned papers on aspects of the law. The clear direction and thrust is towards the pragmatic needs of the new, or aspiring, admittee to the junior bar. The benefits sought are the achievement of higher standards of professional practice at the junior bar and, as a direct consequence, higher standards of service rendered to individual clients and to the public at large.
If the Bar Practice Centre fails in achieving these objectives, it will have failed completely. One must therefore identify the critical areas of performance for the achievement of success. Leaving aside the physical resources, and matters of administration, there is one single factor which underpins the success of this project. It is, therefore, the critical area of performance. It is the enthusiastic and effective presentation of pragmatic lectures and training exercises.
Since these will mostly be in the hands of our own senior members in the Bar Association and, at least at present, without fee for their services, success is dependent upon those people.
That it has, to a considerable extent, been these same people who have promoted the idea of the Bar Practice Centre, testifies to a high level of professional concern and integrity. The readers at the Centre are the initial beneficiaries.
Cedric Hampson
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FOREWORD TO SECOND EDITION
The Bar Practice Centre provided its first course in 1983 and two courses in 1984. A total of 106 graduated from the first three courses, there are 40 readers taking the current course and 50 readers have enrolled for the second course of 1985. Since an amendment to the Rules Relating to the Admission of Barristers made in 1984 a person may not be admitted as a barrister unless he/she has completed a course at the Bar Practice Centre. Members of the Management Committee have been delighted with the support which the profession has given to the Centre. The instruction in the course is almost entirely provided by active members of the legal profession and the Management Committee and all the readers in the courses are very grateful to those judges, magistrates, barristers and solicitors who have given so freely of their valuable time.
The Bar Practice Centre is a joint venture by the Bar Association and the Brisbane College of Advanced Education. The services provided by the Brisbane College of Advanced Education have been invaluable. These services lie in the provision not only of accommodation and administrative assistance but also in the support which can only come from an institution dedicated to regular tertiary education.
The curriculum of the courses has not been static. Each course is re- considered in the light of the comments of readers in previous courses.
There has been considerable modification and some experimentation in the Management Committee's efforts to ensure that readers doing the course are offered the best practical training for barristers available in Australia.
Cedric Hampson
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Foreword
Foreword to Second Edition Management Committee
CONTENTS
Objectives of the Bar Practice Centre Readers
Fees and Enrolment Courses ...
Bar Practice Centre Papers Lecture Notes
Facilities
Subjects and Lectures ...
Indicative Content of Subjects
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Constitution and Rules of the Bar Practice Centre
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21 22 23 Appendix 1
Form (1)
Form of Enrolment (2) Locality Plan
Campus Layout
MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE
The Bar Practice Centre is controlled by a Management Committee consisting of some members appointed by the Bar Association of Queens- land, some by Brisbane College of Advanced Education, and a Warden appointed by the Management Committee itself.
Members nominated by the Bar Association of Queensland:
C.E.K. Hampson, A.O., O.C., B.A., LLB., B.C.L(Oxon), (Chairman) E.J.P.F. Lennon, 0.C., B.A., LLB.
R.S. O'Regan, 0.C., B.A., LLB., Dip.Pub.Admin.(Old), LLM.(P.N.G.)
Members nominated by Brisbane College of Advanced Education:
N.R. Parsons, B.Sc.(Tas.), M.Sc.(Melb.), Ph.D.(Tas.), FAIM (standing in for P.B. Botsman, A.M. B.Com., B.Ed.(Melb.), M.A.(Monash), Dip.Ed.Admin. (N.E.), Ph.D.(Cornell), FACE, ARIPA, FAIM)
W.O. McCarthy, M.Agr.Sc.(N.Z.), Ph.D.(lowa), FAIM The Honourable Mr Justice Moynihan, LLB.
Warden:
P.J. Byrnes, B.Com.(Hons), LLB.(Hons), AASA(Snr)
Barrister-at- Law
Assistant Warden:
S.A. Frazer ASDA, BA, LLB(Hons) Solicitor
Secretary:
Mrs Barbara Jespersen
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OBJECTIVES OF THE BAR PRACTICE CENTRE
1. To develop and enhance the practice skills of persons enrolled as students-at-law who are about to seek admission to practice at the Bar of the Supreme Court of Queensland; or who are persons otherwise entitled to admission under the Rules Relating to the Admission of Barristers of the Supreme Court of Queensland 1975 as amended.
2. To act as a focus for the continuing education of Barristers of the Supreme Court of Queensland.
3. To concern itself with training and standards generally directed towa.rds the achievement of highest possible levels of competence and profes- sional integrity in the members of the Bar of the Supreme Court of Queensland.
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READERS
The Bar Practice Centre Course is a prerequisite for admission as a Barrister.
Attendance at the Course is compulsory for all persons intending to apply for admission to practice unless special circumstances can be shown. The Barristers' Board, for example, might find special circumstances existing in the case of a person who has practised as a Barrister for several years, transferred to the roll of Solicitors, and then seeks to return to the Bar.
A prerequisite for admission to the Bar is, then, attaining the Certificate issued by the Bar Practice Centre, the form of which is indicated in the Constitution and Rules of the Bar Practice Centre.
Certification in Form 1 is dependent upon attendance at lectures and participation in the practical work. There are no formal examinations or assessment in terms of knowledge or academic performance. The issue of a certificate shall at all times be subject to the discretion of the Management Committee.
Readers outside Brisbane are not exempted from the requirements of the training. The Bar Training Centre will enrol such persons as correspon- dence readers. The Management Committee considers the usefulness of the Course is significantly greater for internal readers. Thus applications for status as a correspondence reader are scrutinised by the Committee. Lecture notes, video tapes, and occasional workshop sessions will be available.
Some presentations may be of interest to members of the Bar not subject to the training requirements. Ad hoc attendance is open to such members who need only advise the Warden, in advance, of their intention to attend.
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FEES AND ENROLMENT
Under the Constitution and Rules of the Bar Practice Centre the Committee of Management shall from time to time determine the fees to be paid by readers.
The payment of a fee is not intended as an obstacle placed in the path of those who would join the ranks of the Bar. The intention is a practical one insofar as it is necessary to defray, in part at least, the costs of funding the training.
If the course is to be successful, the Centre will require access to its own funds as well as to the resources which the Brisbane College of Advanced Education is providing.
The observation is made that the reader who has completed the course will have a set of notes which will be of considerable use in practice and which, were they to be acquired in the normal commercial market, would probably cost in excess of the fee for the course.
The fee for Courses 4 and 5 has been set at $200. The fee is payable on confirmation of enrolment (approximately six weeks prior to commence- ment of the Course). Enrolment forms are available from either: The Bar Practice Centre Office, or the office of the Bar Association of Queensland.
Enrolment forms and fees must be sent to the Warden of the Bar Practice Centre so that he receives them not later than the first day of February or the first day of July as appropriate. There is a penalty of
$20.00 for late enrolment.
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COURSES
It is administratively desirable that training courses coincide with the academic semester programmes of the School of Business at Brisbane College of Advanced Education. The dates of semesters seem to be suitable also for the domestic and professional convenience of students.
Each course will consist of two evenings each week throughout a semester which consists of 15 weeks.
Lectures commence at 6.00 pm and finish at 9.00 pm so that each course consists of 90 hours of training.
The word 'lecture' includes workshops and court practice sessions. One evening may, therefore, consist of one hour of conventional lecture followed by two hours of workshop or practice.
Semesters begin in mid-February and mid-July respectively and cease at the end of May and the end of October respectively. There are mid-semester breaks of two weeks.
Considerable use will be made of closed circuit television in practice sessions and for the production of video tapes for use by students located outside Brisbane.
It is an important aspect of the training that questions or problems which readers have met in practice, or during pupillage, be effectively answered or resolved. Accordingly notice of the question should be sent to the Warden in writing and he will ensure that the matter is referred to one of the lecturers for response at a lecture as soon as possible thereafter. This will result in all of the readers having the benefit of the problem and the answer. In addition, it will enable incorporation of the point at issue in future lectures.
The Bar Practice Centre has been fortunate in the support given to it by distinguished speakers. A list of speeches to date is appended (refer to Appendix 1 ).
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BAR PRACTICE CENTRE PAPERS
The Bar Practice Centre publishes the Bar Practice Centre Papers. The Bar Practice Centre Papers include addresses to Courses by distinguished speakers. The Papers also include selected papers presented as part of the Bar Practice Course. The first volume, published in 1984, includes the following papers:
'The Doctrine of Precedent Today', The Right Honourable Sir Harry Gibbs, C.J.
'Leading Evidence', D.F. Jackson, 0.C.
'Pleadings', P. de Jersey, O.C.
'Court Procedures: Criminal Trials', Gibney, D.C.J. and Miller, D.C.J.
The second volume, to be published in 1985, includes the following papers:
'The Bar as Ministers of Justice', The Honourable Sir Gerard Brennan, K.B.E., B.A. LLB., Judge of the High Court of Australia.
'Independence in the Exercise of the Judicial Power', The Honourable Mr Justice A.R. Moffitt, C.M.G., B.A., LLB.(Syd.), Q.C., President, Court of Appeal N.S.W.
'Court Procedures - Summary Trials and Committals', R.A. Mulholland, B.A., LLB.(Q), LLM.(London).
'Court Procedures - Generally', The Honourable Mr Justice C.W. Pincus, LLB., Federal Court of Australia.
'Federal Tribunals', R.E. Cooper, 0.C., LLB.
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LECTURE NOTES
Lecture notes and other publications emanating from the Bar Practice Centre must not be copied without the written permission of the Warden of the Centre. The transcript of such documents is copyright.
Copies of individual lectures may be purchased by non-readers of the Bar Practice Centre by contacting the Warden or his secretary.
FACILITIES
Readers attending training at the Bar Practice Centre are invited to avail themselves of the facilities at the Kedron Park Campus of the College.
These include:
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Swimming Pool Tennis Courts Sports Oval Cafeteria Library Car Park
College Bookshop.
At the beginning of each course an orientation session will be held.
SUBJECTS AND LECTURES
Subjects are not treated as continuing progressive acquisitions of knowledge throughout the semester of the course in the manner of a conventional tertiary course. Readers have qualified by examination with respect to knowledge of the subjects before coming to the Centre.
The emphasis is on application, procedures, and practice, so that some subjects will be treated by means of one, two or three hours of lectures only, followed by workshop sessions.
The listing of subjects is therefore indicative only of subjects presented rather than time allocated or content.
The list of subjects to be offered in the first course has been compiled by the Management Committee in the light not only of the experience of its members but also of surveys and enquiries of members of the legal profession in Queensland. The list will be kept continually under review.
Presentation wi II be subject to variation, at the discretion of the Management Committee, from one course to another in response to needs and opportunities as they occur. Visiting lecturers and alterations to practice procedures as they are promulgated could be the stimuli for such variation.
The main subjects are:
Court Procedures Evidence
Pleadings Advocacy
Ethics and Etiquette Opinion Writing Family Court Practice
Chamber Applications
Government Office Procedures Solicitors' Office Procedures Library Research
lnterlocutary Steps and Discovery Preparation for Trial
Practice Management
Each subject wi II be presented by a lecturer chosen by the Management Committee not only for his/her particular expertise or distinction in that area of the Law but also for his/her believed ability to impart practical knowledge to readers.
Some topics will be dealt with by distribution of notes. Readers are invited to ask questions in relation to these topics.
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INDICATIVE CONTENT OF SUBJECTS LEADING EVIDENCE I
It is not intended that this lecture deals with the rules of evidence directly.
The emphasis is on how material actually gets into evidence and the pitfalls associated with leading evidence. Oral evidence in chief, in cross- examination and in re-examination will be separately treated. Evidence by experts, taking and having noted objections to evidence will also be dealt with. The tender of documentary evidence consequent upon a sub-poena or a call will be covered. There will be a lecture followed by practical applications.
OPINION WRITINGS
This lecture will deal principally with the formal opinion but other advices from counsel (except advices on evidence) will be noticed. The following matters wi II be covered:
• how do you set out an opinion?
• are there sufficient instructions?
• what facts do you assume?
• are all relevant statutory provisions available?
• how are judicial authorities treated?
• how desirable is a summary of conclusions?
There will be a lecture followed by the distribution of some 'briefs for opinion' for discussion.
LEADING EVIDENCE II
(See above under Leading Evidence I.) LIBRARY RESEARCH
This lecture will describe how to use a law library. It will deal with the basic library available to most counsel at their chambers. An oral exposition by lecturers will be followed by a period of readers' looking up certain matters pre-selected by the lecturer. An explanation of the layout of the Supreme Court Library will be given.
COURT PROCEDURES I - Generally
This is the first night in a series dealing with court procedures. The readers have already dealt with leading evidence. This lecture will orientate them in any court or tribunal. What is the object of the appearance? Does one appear by right or does one need leave? How is the tribunal constituted and how is it addressed? Who begins? When and where does one stand or sit?
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address? Are proceedings recorded and if so is a transcript available? The general exposition will be followed by different arrangements of persons in the court room. The following nights in the series deal with particular treatments so this lecture will concentrate on the general aspects of procedure and practice under which an advocate functions.
PLEADINGS
Pleadings in the three State courts will be covered. In addition petitions, motions, originating summonses and affidavits will receive some attention.
Readers will have at least some familiarity with the rules so there will be a lecture not longer than one hour and then proceed to practical work.
Readers will be given statements of fact in usual cases (running down, master and servant, building contracts, contracts for work and labour etc.) and asked to draw pleadings.
COURT PROCEDURES 2 - Magistrates Courts and Inquests
The non-criminal jurisdiction of magistrates will be covered. There will be reference to the acts giving jurisdiction. The readers will be taught where to find all the rules. 'Dummy' briefs will be circulated for the practice nights.
DISCOVERY
Interrogations, discovery of documents and third party discovery will be covered. A lecture will be followed by practical work consisting of analysis of an affidavit of documents for documentary discovery and practical work on interrogatories. A brief or briefs consisting of pleadings and statements will be distributed and readers asked to draw interrogatories and answers thereto.
PRACTICE NIGHT
This is the first of four practice nights. It will be used to conduct in the court room a magistrates court trial and an inquest. To this end 'dummy' briefs will be available. Proceedings will be recorded on video tape and replayed. The tapes will be presented for later replay. A magistrate will preside.
ADVICES ON EVIDENCE
This topic will consist of a lecture followed by practical work with readers writing advices from 'dummy' briefs to be distributed. The briefs will be matched (i.e. one team writes the advice for the plaintiff and another writes it for the defendant) and discussion of the results will follow.
COURT PROCEDURES 3 - Summary Trials and Committals
Reference to the Justices Act, the pitfalls of amendment, defective 11
complaints, non-appearance of defendant etc. will be the subject of this lecture. The Coroners Act will also be covered.
PREPARATION FOR TRIAL
This topic covers what must be done between delivery of the brief on trial and appearance in court. Although primarily concerned with civil trials, the lecture will cover how a criminal trial is prepared for in like manner. The readers will be told how to conduct conferences with client and with witnesses, expert or non-expert. When should a pre-trial inspection be held?
How do you work up a case for presentation to the court? What should be the order of witnesses? Will the other side admit any facts? Can schedules or other documents be prepared to save time in court?
COURT PROCEDURES 4 - Criminal Trials
This topic introduces the jury as it is concerned with indictable crime. A lecture will deal with the criminal practice and the law relating to juries. A discussion period will follow in which typical problems will be discussed.
There will be an orientation period in the court room in which the practical matters (challenging jurors, swearing jurors, sending jury outside etc.) caused by the presence of a jury will be acted out.
SOLICITOR'S OFFICE PRACTICE
A senior solicitor will describe the work and practice of a solicitor's office under the conventional heads of litigation, conveyancing and ecclesiastical work.
PRACTICE NIGHT
With Readers working from dummy briefs a summary trial in the Magistrates Court and a criminal trial in the District Court will be conducted. A magistrate and a District Court judge will preside at each.
GOVERNMENT OFFICE PROCEDURES
This topic is designed to give the young barrister an appreciation of the working and practices of those government departments, the activities of which will impinge upon litigation. There will be several lecturers so that there is an adequate coverage of all departments, including the Queensland Solicitor-General to cover most of the Queensland departments, and the Commonwealth Deputy Crown Solicitor for the Commonwealth depart- ments. The departments in question are:
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State Crown Solicitor Titles Office Supreme Court Public Service Board Police
Workers Compensation Board Legal Aid
Public Defenders Office
COURT PROCEDURES 5 - Chambers
Commonwealth Veterans' Affairs Social Services
This topic will be treated by a lecture followed by discussion prompted by 'dummy' briefs to be circulated. The lecturer will notice the Supreme Court rules relevant to chamber matters (and those of other courts) and will deal fully with a few different kinds of application, e.g. summary judgment, company winding up, further and better particulars. The 'dummy' briefs will relate to such applications and will be prepared and discussed with a view to the use of one in the next practice night.
ETHICS 1
This is the first of two lectures on ethics and etiquette in which the relation- ship between counsel and those close to him in the practice of his profession are examined. The format wi II be a lecture followed by an examination of practical problems suggested by Boulton, the records and rulings of the Bar Committee and by the readers themselves.
COURT PROCEDURES 6 - Civil Trial
The civil trial in the Supreme Court: by this time the interlocutory steps and considerable procedural work have been covered so that this session is one in which everything is put together.
ETHICS2
See above under Ethics 1.
PRACTICE NIGHT
Contested chamber applications and a contested civil trial will be held with readers working from dummy briefs: a Supreme Court judge will preside.
COURT PROCEDURES 7 - Family Court
A lecture dealing with the Family Court practice will first be given by a practitioner. A Family Court judge will comment upon the lecture and give views on procedure and practice. Another Family Court judge will preside at a simulated custody and a simulated property settlement case.
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COURT PROCEDURES 8 - Tribunals
State tribunals other than the three traditional Queensland courts - the Licensing Commission and Court, the Local Government Court, the Public Service Appeals Tribunal will be particularly noticed. (The Federal Tribunals are treated later.)
FEDERAL TRIBUNALS
The format will be an evening of three lectures with time for questions and answers. Lectures will cover the Federal Court and the Administrative Appeals Tribunal. Federal Industrial Tribunals, the Trade Practices Tribunal, and the Repatriation Tribunal will be considered by invited Practitioners.
APPEALS
The lecturer will discuss how to prepare and to argue an appeal but the thrust of this session will be to learn how to institute an appeal, civil or criminal. Particular attention will be given to drawing grounds of appeal.
PRACTICE MANAGEMENT
A barrister will deal with aspects of practice administration other than accounting. A member of the staff of the School of Business, BCAE, will concentrate on accounting matters. The objective is to ensure that young barristers will administer their practices properly and not let the practice run them.
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CONSTITUTION AND RULES OF THE
BAR PRACTICE CENTRE
1.0 NAME: Bar Practice Centre 2.0 OBJECTIVES:
2.1 To develop and enhance the practice skills of candidates for admission to the Bar of the Supreme Court of Queensland and of members of the Bar Association of Queensland subject to the Pupillage Rules.
2.2 To act as a focus for the continuing education of Barristers in the Supreme Court of Queensland.
2.3 To concern itself with training and standards generally directed towards the achievement of highest possible levels of competence and professional integrity in the members of the Bar of the Supreme Court of Queensland.
3.0 GOVERNANCE:
3.1 There shall be a Management Committee consisting of:
3.1.1 Three members nominated by the Committee of the Bar Association of Queensland of whom one shall be the Chairman appointed by the Bar Association of Queensland.
3.1.2 Three members nominated by the Council of the Brisbane College of Advanced Education on the advice of the Director of the College.
3.1.3 The Warden of the Bar Practice Centre appointed by the Management Committee.
3.2 The members of the Management Committee shall hold office at the discretion of the Committee of the Bar Association of Queensland and the Council of the Brisbane College of Advanced Education, but the Management Committee shall make recommendations annually, on or before 31st December, to the above-mentioned Association and Council as to its membership. 3.3 The Committee of the Bar Association of Queensland and the Council of Brisbane College of Advanced Education shall at all 15
times, acting through their nominees on the Management Committee, control the content of training, the selection of lecturers, the content of publications and the administration and allocation of resources associated with the Bar Practice Centre.
3.4 The Management Committee shall meet formally at least once in every two calendar months and may meet more frequently as directed by the Chairman.
3.5 A quorum shall consist of three (3) members, of whom one at least must be present from each of the Bar Association of Queensland and Brisbane College of Advanced Education excluding the Warden.
3.6 In the event of equality of voting, the Chairman shall exercise a casting vote in addition to a deliberative vote.
4.0 ADMINISTRATION:
4.1 There shall be a Chief Executive Officer appointed who shall be designated 'The Warden'.
4.2 The administration and policies of the Management Committee shall be effected through the Warden of the Bar Practice Centre working within the administrative structure of the School of Business located at the Kedron Park Campus of the Brisbane College of Advanced Education.
4.3 The Warden
The Management Committee shall at all times ensure that there is a statement of the functions and duties of the Warden of the Bar
Practice Centre.
5.0 OPERATIONS:
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5.1 Lecturers will be selected from the Judiciary, Magistracy, members of the Bar Association of Queensland, or guest lecturers.
5.2 Fees
Attendance at training courses shall be subject to the payment of fees, the amount of which shall be determined from time to time by the Management Committee, and such fees shall be due and payable at the time of enrolment.
5.3 Statements of Completion
The Warden shall cause a statement of completion in Form 1 to be
completed for every reader satisfactorily completing the training course under the Pupillage Rules and shall forward such statement of completion to the address shown on the reader's enrolment form within fourteen days of completion of the course.
5.4 Finance 5.4.1
5.4.2
5.4.3
5.4.4
5.5 Subjects
The Bar Practice Centre shall maintain an account within the Continuing Education account of Brisbane College of Advanced Education.
All receipts to, and payments from, the Bar Practice Centre shall be effected through that account.
Signatories shall be the Warden and any one of the BCAE members of the Management Committee.
The Warden shall submit a statement of account to each regular meeting of the Management Committee.
5.5.1 The subjects of instruction shall be:
Court Procedures Solicitors' Office Procedures
Evidence Library Research
Pleadings Interlocutory Steps,
Advocacy and Discovery
Ethics and Etiquette Preparation for Trial Opinion Writing Family Court Practice Government Office Chamber Applications Procedures Practice Management
5.5.2 The Management Committee shall have the discretion to add new subjects to, or delete subjects from, the listing at 5.5.1.
6.0 DISSOLUTION:
6.1 The continuance of the Bar Practice Centre shall at all times be at the Discretion of the Bar Association of Queensland and the Brisbane College of Advanced Education who may separately dissolve the Bar Practice Centre at any time by instructing one or several of their nominees on the Management Committee to so advise the Management Committee.
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Council of the Brisbane College of Advanced Education, and the Management Committee will, without further notice, act to terminate the operations of the Bar Practice Centre under this Constitution and Rules.
6.3 In the event of such termination any property of the Centre will be divided between the Bar Association of Queensland and the Brisbane College of Advanced Education in the manner determined by the Management Committee or, failing their agreement, by a person appointed by the Chief Justice of Queensland for the time being.
APPENDIX 1
ADDRESSES BY DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS
The Right Honourable Sir Harry Gibbs, P.C., K.C.M.G., K.B.E., B.A., LLM., Hon.LLD., Chief Justice of Australia, on 'The Doctrine of Precedent Today'.
The Honourable Sir Walter Campbell, Kt., M.A., LLB.hons., Hon.LLD., on 'The New Barrister Enters the Courts'.
The Honourable Mr Justice D.G. Andrews, B.A., LLB., Senior Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court of Queensland, on 'Ethics and Etiquette'.
The Honourable Sir (Francis) Gerard Brennan, K.B.E., B.A., LLB., Judge of the High Court of Australia, on 'The Bar as Ministers of Justice'.
The Honourable Mr Justice A.A. Moffitt, C.M.G., B.A., LLB.Syd., Q.C., President, Court of Appeal N.S.W., on 'Independence in the Exercise of the Judicial Power'.
Mr Trevor Hartigan, Q.C., LLB., Vice-President of the Bar Association of Queensland, on 'The New Barrister Enters Practice'.
The Honourable Sir Nigel Bowen, K.B.E., B.A., LLB., Chief Judge of the Federal Court of Australia, on 'Anatomy of a Federal Court'.
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SCHEDULE 1 BAR PRACTICE CENTRE
FORM1
I hereby certify that A.B., of (address)
has satisfactorily completed, or been deemed to have satisfactorily completed, the Practice Training Course conducted at the Bar Practice
Centre from 198 to 198 .
Dated this day of , 198
C.D.
Warden
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BAR PRACTICE CENTRE FORM OF ENROLMENT
(FORM 2) To the Warden, Bar Practice Centre
I, A.B. of (Town or City)
desire to undergo the course of training commencing in the month of , 198
I desire to be enrolled as an INTERNAL/EXTERNAL reader.
(delete as appropriate) I supply the following information:
(1) Name of candidate in full: (2) Residence:
(3) Work:
(4) Date and place of birth: (5) Academic Qualifications:
(6) Do you intend to practise as a barrister? YES/NO If Yes, when? ... . ... .. ... ... . . . ... . . . . ... . (7) Have you completed a law degree (or legal qualification)? YES/NO
If not, when do you expect to complete a law
degree (or legal qualification)? ... . . ... .... .... .. . . . (8) Have you completed all the professional subjects required
for admission as a barrister? YES/NO
If not, when do you expect to complete the required
professional subjects? .. . . . .. ... ... ... .... . . .. . (9) Enrolled Barristers' Board Stage 6: YES/NO (10)Member Bar Association of Queensland: YES/NO (11)Datesigned (if yes to (10)): . . ... . . ... .. . . .. ... . . . (12) Completed Barristers' Board to Stage 5: YES/NO
Telephone numbers: Residence:
Dated this
(Signature)
Office: day of
A.B.
, 198 Applicant
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LOCALITY PLAN
LOCALITY PLAN
TRANSPORT:
TRAIN BUSES
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To Wooloowin Station and walk approximately 1 km 115 to Toombul from North Quay
disembark Kedron High School (next door to BCAE) 172 to Chermside
disembark end Lutwyche Road 502 City Express Service to Carseldine disembark end Lutwyche Road (leaves Anzac Square in Adelaide Street every half hour)
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KEDRON PARKCAMPUS MAP Brisbane College of Advanced Education
Warden Secretai Lecture oom Court Room Lecturers' Room Canteen Libra'X
Staff menities Swimming Pool
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