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the evolution of legal research through the technological age”, paper presented to the Australian Law Librarians” Association (ALLA) Evolution Conference, Darwin. NT, 2-4 September. Conference paper uploaded with the permission of the Convenor of the 2009 ALLA Evolution Conference https://epubs.scu.edu.au/cgi/ viewcontent.cgi?article=1014&context=lib_pubs 19 Wardell above n 18, 3. 20 Wardell above n 18, 4. 21 See e.g. Judith Bennett, Tim Miller, Julian Webb, Rachelle Bosua, Adam Lodders & Scott Chamberlain, Current State of Automated Legal Advice Tools Networked Society Institute Discussion Paper 1 April 2018, 5 https:// networkedsociety.unimelb.edu.au/__data/ assets/pdf_file/0020/2761013/2018-NSICurrentStateofALAT.pdf; 22 Richard Susskind, Tomorrow”s Lawyers. An introduction to your future (Oxford, 2nd ed, 2016)25-31 23 Aebra Cole, “Why Selling Products May Be The Future For Law Firms” Law 360 5 April 2018 https://www.legalmosaic.com/wp-content/ uploads/2018/04/Why-Selling-Products-MayBe-The-Future-For-Law-Firms-Law360.pdf; Joel Barolsky, “Legal products: A new trick for
old dogs” Financial Review, 28 November 2019 https://www.afr.com/companies/professionalservices/legal-products-a-new-trick-for-old-dogs20191126-p53e32 24 Barolsky, above n 23 25 E.g. http://www.courts.sa.gov.au/Pages/default. aspx; http://www.sacat.sa.gov.au/; https:// civilresolutionbc.ca/ 26 Governatori, G., Idelberger, F., Milosevic, Z. et al. On legal contracts, imperative and declarative smart contracts, and blockchain systems. Artif Intell Law 26, 377–409 (2018) doi:10.1007/ s10506-018-9223-3, 384 27 Governatori et al, 384 28 E.g. docassemble https://docassemble.org/ 29 Richard Susskind, Tomorrow”s Lawyers (Oxford University Press, 2nd ed, 2017) 5 30 Productivity Commission 2014, Access to Justice Arrangements, Inquiry Report No. 72, Canberra, 641 https://www.pc.gov.au/inquiries/completed/ access-justice/report/access-justice-volume2.pdf 31 Chief Justice of Western Australia, Wayne Martin quoted in Productivity Commission above n 30, 6 32 Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor & Rory McDonald, “What Is Disruptive Innovation?” Harvard Business Review December 2015 https://
hbr.org/2015/12/what-is-disruptive-innovation; Rebecca L. Sandefur, “Access to What?” (2019) 148 (1) Winter, Dædalus, the Journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, 54 https://www. amacad.org/sites/default/files/publication/ downloads/19_Winter_Daedalus_Sandefur.pdf 33 Susskind, above n 29, xix 34 Christensen et al, above n 32. 35 Michael Zhang, The World”s First Digital Camera by Kodak and Steve Sasson, (PetaPixel, 5 August 2010) https://petapixel. com/2010/08/05/the-worlds-first-digitalcamera-by-kodak-and-steve-sasson/ 36 Deloitte, “Mobile Consumer Survey 2019”, https://www2.deloitte.com/au/mobileconsumer-survey 37 Australian Human Rights Commission, 8 A right to access the Internet, https://www.humanrights. gov.au/our-work/8-right-access-internet 38 Australian Human Rights Commission above n 38. 39 Law Council of Australia, The Justice Project 2019 https://www.lawcouncil.asn.au/justice-project/ final-report 40 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-09-17/ centrelink-robodebt-class-action-lawsuitannounced/11520338
A roundup of recent Society meetings & conferences ROSEMARY PRIDMORE, EXECUTIVE OFFICER 20 NOVEMBER 2019 Meeting with the Attorney-General he President, Amy Nikolovski, President-Elect, Tim White, Chief Executive, Stephen Hodder and Policy Lawyer, Anna Finizio met with the Attorney-General, the Honourable Vickie Chapman MP. Matters discussed included the appointment of Senior Counsel; the appointment of Judges to vacancies on the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal; the Legal Profession Uniform Law; and the Legal Practitioners (Foreign Lawyers and Other Matters) Amendment Bill 2019.
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28, 29, 30 NOVEMBER 2019 Meetings of Law Society Presidents, Chief Executives of Constituent Bodies of the Law Council of Australia (LCA); Chief Executives of Law Societies; the Conference of Law Societies; and Directors of the LCA Amy Nikolovski (as President and also as Society appointed Director of the LCA), Tim White and Stephen Hodder variously participated in the above quarterly meetings, which were held in Canberra. Key topics of discussion included the 2020
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Law Council President’s objectives; the ongoing review of the Australian Solicitors’ Conduct Rules; and various internal policies and governance and financial matters relating to the LCA.
2 DECEMBER 2019 Meeting with Labor Parliamentarians re foreign lawyers legislation The amendments to the Legal Practitioners Act 1981 (SA) to introduce regulation for foreign lawyers were discussed by Amy Nikolovski and Anna Finizio at a meeting with Mr Christopher Picton MP and the Honourable Ian Hunter MLC.
6 DECEMBER 2019 Meeting with The Hon. Irene Pnevmatikos MLC The Society’s concerns with an amendment to the Labour Hire Licensing (Miscellaneous) Amendment Bill 2019, that sought to include “legal practice work” as part of the labour hire licensing scheme in SA were raised by Amy Nikolovski and Anna Finizio at a meeting with the Honourable Irene Pnevmatikos MLC.
11 DECEMBER 2019 Meeting with the Chief Justice Matters discussed by Amy Nikolovski, Tim White and Stephen Hodder at their meeting with the Chief Justice included the appointment of Senior Counsel; the Society’s proposal for the introduction of mandatory Continuing Professional Development in Bullying, Discrimination and Harassment, and in wellbeing and resilience; and setting down fees. B
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etired District Court judges David Smith and Jack Costello have both recently begun practising out of chambers on 30 Market St Adelaide. Mr Smith is practising as a barrister and is available to conduct mediations and undertake general consulting work, while Mr Costello will focus solely on mediation work. Mr Smith can be contacted at: Davidwsmith5491@ gmail.com or 0402133323. Mr Costello can be contacted at: jack@costellojk. com.au or 0403795475.
