Examine the obligation to ensure procedural fairness as the foundation of all good decision making and the consequences where a court concludes that there has been a breach of procedural fairness by a decision maker. Take a deep dive into jurisdictional facts, the importance of jurisdictional facts for administrative decision makers, the impacts of a failure to recognise the existence of a jurisdictional fact and a closer look at objective and subjective jurisdictional facts. Be updated on recent cases in administrative decision making and the impacts that these decisions may have on future decision making.

Presenters

Bronwyn Weir, Director, Weir Legal & Consulting
Bronwyn has been a lawyer for over 20 years. She recently established Weir Legal and Consulting Pty Ltd having previously worked as a senior partner of a large law firm. Bronwyn advises governments on complaints management, licencing, disciplinary inquiries, enforcement, decision making and administrative law. Bronwyn also advises on regulatory practice and risk-based decision-making by regulators. She has worked with regulators in sectors including early childhood education and care, building, VET education, health, food safety, racing and primary industries. Bronwyn has a strong reputation in the area of building regulation. In 2018 she co-authored a report with Professor Peter Shergold to all state and territory and federal governments on building regulation issues. She continues to act for a number of governments in relation to their implementation of the report including Victoria, Qld, NSW and WA.


Kylie Evans SC, Barrister, Ah Ket Chambers
Kylie Evans appears in all courts and tribunals in public, administrative and human rights matters. Kylie has significant public, administrative and human rights law expertise and provides advice in these areas to non-government and government clients. She is co-author of the Annotated Victorian Charter of Rights (LawBook Co, 2019, Second edition) and has taught on this subject in the Masters program at Melbourne Law School. Kylie is currently listed in Doyle's Guide to Leading Administrative & Public Law Barristers - Australia, 2021 and in Best Lawyers Australia for Public Law. She holds first class honours degrees in Law from the University of Melbourne and the University of Cambridge (Masters of Law) and a first class Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Melbourne. She was Associate to the Honourable Justice David Hunt AO QC at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in 1999 and a Research Fellow for the Honourable Professor James Crawford AC SC FBA (now a Justice of the International Court of Justice) from 2002-2005.


Kylie Walsh, Principal, Russell Kennedy
Kylie is the Principal with Russell Kennedy Lawyers and is a litigation lawyer with over 10 years’ experience. Kylie acts on behalf of various government clients and statutory authorities and specialises in prosecution, enforcement, disciplinary and administrative review proceedings.


Lisa De Ferrari SC, Barrister, List A Barristers
Lisa De Ferrari practises in public law, commercial law and common law (major torts list, class actions and defamation). Lisa practises in public law, commercial law and common law (major torts list, class actions and defamation). Lisa appears in the High Court, the Federal Court and the Full Federal Court, the Victorian Court of Appeal, the Supreme Court of Victoria and the Supreme Courts of other jurisdictions. She is an expert trial lawyer and has run numerous complex trials on issues primarily of public law, and has established herself as one of the top appellate barristers, particularly in public law. Finally, Lisa has a substantial practice in advising governments, as well individuals and corporations, on matters of statutory construction, judicial review, confiscation of assets, habeas and other forms of urgent relief, and merits of common law actions. In 2023, Lisa was named in Doyle's Guide as Recommended Senior Counsel, Victoria, Technology, Media & Telecommunications Law.


Georgina Rhodes, Barrister, Ah Ket Chambers
Georgina practices in public and administrative law, regulatory law, quasi-criminal and criminal law. She acts for government (State and Commonwealth) and private clients in various matters, including occupational health and safety, crimes mental impairment, disciplinary and professional standards, worker screening, disability, child protection, criminal charges, intervention orders, and inquests and inquiries. Georgina provides advice to Government Departments and Statutory Authorities in relation to statutory interpretation, legislative reform, information sharing, subpoenas and integrity matters. Georgina is currently involved in the Commission of Inquiry into the Tasmanian Government's Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in Institutional Settings, as one of the Counsel Assisting Team led by Ms Elizabeth Bennett S.C.