This publication is intended to provide barristers with a practical guide to best practice in respect of their obligations pursuant to the ‘cab rank’ rule: the duty of counsel to accept any brief which is offered to them at a reasonable fee, provided it is in a field in which the counsel ordinarily practises and they are not otherwise committed.
Read MoreThis publication is intended to provide to barristers a practical guide to best practice for meeting the positive duty to take reasonable and proportionate measures to eliminate, as far as possible, sexual harassment, sex-based harassment, sex discrimination, conduct creating a workplace environment that is hostile on the ground of sex, and related acts of victimisation.
Read MoreThis publication is intended to provide to barristers a practical guide to best practice for the bringing of ex parte applications. Based on a paper presented by Peter Dunning KC, President of the ABA, at the Bar Association of Queensland Conference 3 March 2023. Dunning KC would like to acknowledge the contributions of the panel that discussed the paper at the conference, the Hon. Ian Callinan AC KC, Simon Couper KC and Darlene Skennar KC.
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