Discovery Inquiry stakeholders are invited to attend a Panel Discussion in Sydney, 18 November 2010
The Australian Law Reform Commission invites you to attend a PANEL DISCUSSION following the release of the ALRC’s Consultation Paper, Discovery of Documents in Federal Courts
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Read moreDiscovery e-news | Issue 4
Issue 4 | October 2010 View original formatThe month in summaryThis month, the ALRC Discovery team headed to Melbourne for a further round of consultations. We met with the Australian Institute of Judicial Administration, which had previously convened a seminar on discovery in August 2007. The material coming out of that seminar provides us with …
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Read moreDiscovery e-news | Issue 3
Issue 3 | September 2010 View original format The month in summary The highlight of the last month was the first Discovery Advisory Committee meeting, where we subjected our preliminary ideas—gleaned from our research and consultations to date—to the scrutiny of an assembled body of leading experts. The ‘thought bubbles’ were robustly debated among the group, including …
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Issue 2 | August 2010 View original format The month in summary Over the last month, we have embarked on some preliminary consultations and research into the discovery process. We are very grateful to those who have given us their time to talk about this inquiry and appreciate the contributions that have been made to …
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Read moreDiscovery e-news | Issue 1
Welcome to the inquiry The 2009 Report of the Access to Justice Taskforce, A Strategic Framework for Access to Justice in the Federal Civil Justice System, considered barriers to justice in relation to court-based dispute resolution and noted the high and often disproportionate cost of discovery. The reference of this inquiry to the ALRC is …
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Read moreALRC to review Discovery in Federal Courts to Improve Access to Justice
On 10 May 2010, the Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) received Terms of Reference from the Commonwealth Attorney-General, the Hon Robert McClelland MP, for an Inquiry to look into discovery of documents in litigation in federal courts.The Terms of Reference ask the ALRC to focus on issues of: the law, practice and management of the …
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