WEDNESDAY 2 DECEMBER
6:30pm Informal welcome gathering - DOC Pizza and Mozarella Bar, 295 Drummond Street, Carlton
3053 (own expense – set menu $42 per head)
THURSDAY 3 DECEMBER
8.30-9.00am Registration
9.00-9:15am Welcome - Professor Bryan Horrigan, Dean of Law (Monash University)
Professors Adrian Evans and Christine Parker (Monash University)
9:15-10:30am Plenary 1: ETHICAL THEORY: JUXTAPOSING VIRTUE AND RULES [to be videoed]
(Auditorium 1, 2 & 3)
Chair: Prof Christine Parker (Monash University)
Prof Reid Mortensen (University of Southern Queensland). ‘The virtues of virtue’
Assoc Prof Tim Dare (University of Auckland), ‘Legal Ethics and Post Neo-Aristotelian Virtue
Ethics’
10:30-11am
11-1pm
Morning Tea
Parallel sessions 1 [to be videoed]
1A: HARD (CLINICAL) SKILLS OF ETHICAL
PRACTICE
(Seminar room 1)
Chair: Prof Adrian Evans (Monash
University)
Richard Besley (Victorian Legal Admissions
Board)
Ross Hyams (Monash University)
Donna Cooper (Manager, Ethics
Department; Secretary Ethics Committee,
Law Institute of Victoria
1B: PANEL PRESENTATION ON: ‘RELIGIOUS
INSTITUTIONS, LAWYERS FAITH AND MORAL
CONVERSATIONS’
(Seminar room 2)
Chair: Prof Christine Parker (Monash
University)
A/Prof Tony Foley (Australian National
University), Can a different lawyer/client relationship affect the behaviour of a faithbased institutional client?
Vivien Holmes (Australian National
University), ‘ The behaviour of the lawyers acting for the church in the Ellis case /
‘Melbourne response’ matters’
Katie Murray (University of Southern
Queensland), ‘ What difference can a faithbased approach to lawyering make’
Judy Courtin (Researcher and lawyer representing victims of institutional sexual abuse) What are the ethical obligations and accountability of lawyers working with
Catholic clergy sexual assault victims, when
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1-2pm
2-3:15pm that relationship is outside the traditional
‘lawyer-client’ relationship?
Lunch
Plenary 2: COMMERCIAL REALITIES IN TEACHING ETHICS ACROSS PROFESSIONS [to be videoed]
(Auditorium 1, 2 & 3)
Chair and Commentator: Prof Julian Webb (lawyers’ ethics) (University of Melbourne)
A/Prof Justin Oakley (Human Bioethics) (Monash University)
Dr Cristina Neesham (Business Ethics) (Swinburne University)
A/Prof Clare Delany (Health Science Ethics) (University of Melbourne)
Vivien Holmes (Australian National University)
3:15-3:30pm
3:30-5:15pm
7pm
Afternoon Tea
Parallel sessions 2
2A: ETHICS IN LAW FIRMS
(Seminar room 1)
Chair: Dominic Cook (Partner, Wisewould
Mahony) (TBC)
Prof Paula Baron & Dr Lillian Corbin
(Latrobe University & University of New
England), ‘Ethics begins at home: unhealthy law firm cultures’
Prof Christine Parker (Monash University),
‘Dale v Clayton Utz: Lessons for lawyers about confidentiality and whistle-blowing’
Dr Justine Rogers (University of New South
Wales) , ‘ Looking at lawyer’s ethics at work: a survey of current and potential research designs’
2B: ETHICS, THEORY AND REALITY
(Seminar room 2)
Chair: Prof Reid Mortensen (University of
Southern Queensland)
Prof Julian Webb (University of Melbourne) ,
‘Understanding the (new) moral economy of regulating lawyers: reflections on developments in Australia and the UK’
A/Prof Selene Mize (University of Otago) ,
‘How can behavioural legal ethics inform our teaching?’
Prof John Flood (Griffith University) ,
‘ Changing lawyer-client relationships in corporate law practice: from dyads to triads’
CONFERENCE DINNER - Scugnizzi Italian Restaurant (included in full conference registration fee; $90 for extra person)
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FRIDAY 4 DECEMBER
9-10:30am Plenary 3: Q&A: THE LAW OF LAWYERING - DESIRABLE IMPACTS OF THE (almost)
NATIONAL REGULATOR ON LEGAL ETHICS
(Auditorium 1, 2 & 3)
Chair: Prof Adrian Evans (Monash University)
Dale Boucher (Uniform Legal Services Commissioner, Australia)
10:30-11am
Nerida Wallace (CEO, Law Institute of Victoria)
Adjunct Prof The Honourable Nahum Mushin (Monash University)
Morning Tea
11-1pm Parallel sessions 3
1-2pm
2-3:45pm
3A: ETHICAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE LAW OF
LAWYERING
(Seminar room 1)
Chair: A/Prof Tim Dare (University of
Auckland)
Neil Watt (Solicitor and Consulting Ethicist) ,
‘The presumptions underpinning legal ethics rules – a bridge between rules and virtues’
Dr Kate Seear (Monash University) ,
‘Representing innocent clients who wish to plead guilty: ethical and clinical considerations’
Dr Linda Haller (University of Melbourne) ,
‘Rudderless and unprincipled – advocates’ immunity in Australia today’
John Briton (Former Legal Services
Commissioner, Qld), ‘Between the idea and the reality falls the shadow’
3B: REGULATION OF LEGAL PRACTICE
(Seminar room 2)
Chair: Michael McGarvie (Legal Services
Commissioner, Victoria)
A/Prof Richard Wu (University of Hong
Kong) , ‘ Ethical Perceptions of Future Lawyers in Hong Kong - An Empirical Study’
A/Prof Bobette Wolsky, (Bond University)
‘Ethical challenges for lawyers in mediation’
Lisa Webley, (University of Westminster)
‘When is a family lawyer, an ethical, professional lawyer?’
Mini-workshop: 12-1pm
(Seminar room 3)
Prof Kim Economides & Mark Rankin,
(Flinders University) ‘Legal oaths and declarations: their role in identifying core
Australian legal values’
Lunch
(IAOLE mini-Board meeting) (Meeting room 4)
Parallel sessions 4
4A: LAWYERS AND CLIENTS
(Seminar room 1)
Chair: Prof Kim Economides (Dean, Flinders
Law School)
Carole Caple (Law Council of Australia) ,
‘ Implications for lawyers ethical and professional obligations stemming from the introduction of anti-money laundering and
4B: BECOMING A LAWYER; BEING A LAWYER
(Seminar room 2)
Chair: Adjunct Prof The Honourable Nahum
Mushin (Monash University)
Francesca Bartlett, (The University of
Queensland) ‘The gendered politics of admission- rewriting the story of Wendy
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counter terrorism financing legislation amendments’
Lise Barry (Macquarie University) , ‘ Capacity complaints and the implications for legal education’
Helen McGowan (Australian National
University College of Law), ‘The girls out the front and poison cousins: identifying and responding to conflicting interests in remote legal practice’
A/Prof Kay Lauchland (Bond University) ‘ Too many voices in my head – ethical implications of multiple representation in insurance law’
Bacon’s application to become a barrister’
(University of Queensland)
Trish Mundy , ‘The lone wolf or rural justice advocate? Imagining ‘the rural lawyer’?’
(University of Wollongong)
Michael McNamara, ‘Ethical Development during supervised legal practice’ (Griffith
University)
Dr Genevieve Grant & Prof Christine Parker
(Monash University), ‘Lawyers’ responsibility for claimant health in injury compensation systems’
4-5pm Public symposium [to be videoed]
(Auditorium 1, 2 & 3)
SHOULD LAWYERS CHALLENGE EMITTERS? (or are lawyers SLACC* enough to care?)
Chair: Prof Adrian Evans (Monash University)
Dr Gerry Nagtzaam (Senior Lecturer, Monash University)
The Hon. Chief Justice Brian Preston (Land and Environment Court, NSW)
Brendan Sydes (CEO, Environmental Justice Australia)
*Strategic Litigation Against Climate Change
5.00-7.00pm LAWYERS IN A WARMING WORLD – AN OPEN CONVERSATION AND MUSICAL EXPERIENCE: drinks, canapes, music and open conversation (extra cost: $30) [to be videoed]
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Cost $140
PROPOSED ITINERARY
8.00
10.00
10.30
(Subject to change depending on weather)
Pick up, Melbourne CBD (to be advised).
Coffee and cake (own cost), Main St, Sorrento
Quarantine Station and Point Nepean

Walk or shuttle bus ($10) to Point Nepean
12.30
3.00
Lunch, Red Hill (wood fired pizza and glass of wine or soft drink)
Afternoon tea or coffee (own cost), Dromana or Mornington
4.00-5.00 Arrive back, Melbourne CBD
The cost of $140 includes lunch, all entries, bottle of water
Limited to the first 20 registrations or registrations close by 31 October 2015.
If you might like to join our excursion, register online.
If you have any enquires please email anzlec@monash.edu
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