27 The CIArb Australia News 2018
Caroline Kenny QC delivers the President’s Welcome to a packed room at No 35 on Collins Street for the CIArb Australia Dinner
CIArb Australia President’s Welcome Caroline Kenny QC
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hief Justice Allsop, Your Honours, Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen.
Welcome to the 2018 CIArb Australia Annual Dinner. We are delighted to be joined by so many guests from across Australia and around the globe including current and former members of the judiciary, representatives from prominent law firms, heads of institutes not only from Australia but as far reaching as the Middle East, Singapore and New Zealand. Tonight’s dinner is the highlight of CIArb’s ever increasing program of seminars, training courses and social events which are spread across various jurisdictions.
A brief overview of activities for the year: We held our 9 day Diploma course which we run in joint venture with the Singapore and Hong Kong branches of CIArb in Perth, Western Australia in July. The course attracted senior practitioners from China, Singapore, the Philippines, India and Australia including former justices of the Federal Court and Supreme Court. We held the Introduction to International Arbitration course in Brisbane, Queensland, the Accelerated Route to Fellowship course in Melbourne and the Award Writing course in Sydney, New South Wales and Melbourne,
Victoria; all which lead to a global accreditation. In addition we held business lunches in Melbourne and Brisbane, Pre Vis Moot competitions and the seminars on international arbitration which we run in partnership with the Federal Court of Australia. This year we introduced two initiative into Arbitration Week: the inaugural CIArb Australia Annual Lecture delivered by The Hon Chief Justice James Allsop AO and the inaugural CIArb Young Members Group organised by the group’s chair and CIArb Australia Councillor, Kristian Maley.