Taken from The Australian

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The Modern Contract of Employment by Ian Neil SC & David Chin (Thompson Reuters 2012) Code: 9780455224534.Reviewed in the Spring 2012 edition of Workplace Review

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Michael Kirby, A Private Life: Fragments, Memories, Friends by Michael Kirby (Allen & Unwin, 2011) ISBN: 9781742376202; pages: 216. Following in the heels of AJ Brown’s biography, Michael Kirby: Paradoxes and Principles, reviewed in the Winter 2011 edition of Workplace Review comes a short memoir by Michael Kirby himself. Perhaps Professor Brown had said it all, but Kirby needed to state a couple of matters personal to him. The book briefly touches upon his time growing up in Sydney’s inner-western suburb, Concord, his attendance at Sydney’s famous selective high school, Fort Street, and his days as a student at the University of Sydney.

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This is a paper on Risk Management for Lawyers qua Employers I gave on the 30^th March 2012, at the Thomson Reuters’ Sydney C.L.E. Conference at the Intercontinental Hotel, Sydney.

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LEGAL PROFESSION REGULATION 2005

REG 176

Regulation 176 of the Legal Profession Regulation 2005 deals with the necessary risk management practices that barristers and solicitors ,as employers, need to develop in relation to general employment law matters dealing with discrimination, harassment ,work safety and Fair Work Act issues.These are matters which all employers need to understand and follow. Even though this paper is under the framework of continuing legal education the object of the regulation is not that we may advise others about these principles but that we follow them ourselves. The primary purpose of the regulation is to manage our practices consistent with these principles,( reg 176(1) (e)). This is so, whether our staff are employed directly by a legal practitioner trading as a sole trader ,partnership , trust, service company or by the entity that manages barristers’ chambers. [...] Continue Reading…

You can bring Mao and Lin Piao but don’t bring Trotsky.This piece is taken from Workplace Review Summer 2011. Available from Thompson Reuters. See my review here.

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