Presenters

Greg McIntyre SC, Michael Kirby Chambers
Greg McIntyre SC was admitted to practice in 1974. He gained extensive experience in the first 15 years of practice in criminal law and also practised between 1984 and 1988 in Family Law. Greg was Principal Legal Officer, Aboriginal Legal Service of WA, 1988-90. From 1990-92 he worked in general litigation at Corser & Corser. He has practised solely as a Barrister since 1993. Greg has developed a High Court and Federal Court advocacy practice in the fields of Native Title, Human Rights, Immigration, Environmental law and Administrative law generally. In recent years he has also been engaged in commercial litigation, personal injury cases and legal professional conduct cases. He was appointed Senior Counsel in 2002 and since that time he has been a member of the Professional Affairs Committee of the Legal practice Board. He was appointed as an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame in 2001 and the University of Western Australia in 2016. He at the University of Notre Dame between 2000 and 2012 and in 2011 lectured at the University of WA on the subject of Indigenous Peoples and the Law and in 2007 lectured in Constitutional Law at Notre Dame. He was awarded the Australian Human Rights Commission Law Award in 2011. Greg was President of the Law Council of Australia in 2024 and now Chairs its Legal Practice Section and sits on its Indigenous Peoples and the Law, Human Rights and Access to Justice Committees. He was President of the Law Society of WA in 2019 and Chairs its Indigenous Peoples and the Law and Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Committees and is deputy-Chair of its Access to Justice Committee.

Edmund Lee, Barrister, Sixth Floor Windeyer Chambers
Edmund primarily practices in Indigenous Law, specialising in native title. In addition to appearing on the connection and tenure aspects of claimant applications and preparing agreements under section 87 and 87A of the Native Title Act 1993 (Cth), Edmund has drafted a number of complex whole of country indigenous land use agreements which formed part of the settlement of proceedings. Related to native title proceedings, Edmund has also appeared in applications relating to the judicial review of the Registrar's decision not to register a native title determination application, dismissing native title determination applications, joinder applications and protection of confidential materials. Edmund has also advised on the complex interrelationship between environmental offences and native title, in particular fisheries offences, and native title compensation.