Tuesday, 25 November 2025
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD unit in Professional Skills
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
Professional Skills
Navigating the Law-Making Process
- The nature of the law-making process
- Constitutional, legal and policy considerations
- Policy-making and the Cabinet process
- Primary and subordinate legislation
- Non-government legislation
- Fundamental legislative principles/human rights
- The drafting process
- The parliamentary process, committee review and bill amendments
- Assent, commencement and publication
Presented by Tony Keyes, Parliamentary Counsel, Office of the Queensland Parliamentary Counsel
Chair
Rachel Francois, Barrister, St James’ Hall
Presenters
Rachel Francois, Barrister, St James’ HallRachel Francois is a barrister practising in NSW with over 20 years' experience in government and administrative law as well as in human rights, consumer protection and commercial law. Rachel regularly appears in the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, the Federal Court and on appeal in migration matters. Rachel is also involved in significant High Court administrative law cases including SZBEL (procedural fairness), SZMTA (materiality of jurisdictional error) and Viane (reliance on personal knowledge and unreasonableness).
Tony Keyes, Parliamentary Counsel, Office of the Queensland Parliamentary Counsel
Tony Keyes has been the Queensland Parliamentary Counsel since 2018. He holds degrees in arts and law. He has worked as a solicitor and as a barrister in private, community and government sectors. As Parliamentary Counsel, Tony is responsible under the Legislative Standards Act 1992 (Qld) for the drafting of Queensland legislation; advising the Government and private members on alternative ways of achieving policy objectives and the application of fundamental legislative principles; preparing reprints of legislation and legislative information; and publishing Bills, Queensland legislation and legislative information. Before his appointment as Parliamentary Counsel, Tony was the Senior Deputy Crown Solicitor (Constitutional and Administrative Law) with Crown Law (Qld). In that capacity he advised and represented all levels of the Queensland Government and its agencies. He has appeared as counsel in all Queensland courts, and with the Solicitor-General in constitutional litigation in the High Court of Australia.
