2022 COAT NSW Conference

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2022 COAT NSW Conference

Tribunals: Providing justice for all

Friday 16 September 2022

Location

Pullman Hotel on Hyde Park

COAT NSW’s annual conference will be held face-to-face again in 2022 on Friday, 16 September 2022 at the Pullman Hotel on Hyde Park. We will also be offering the full-day program online for our colleagues who cannot make it to Sydney. Please click here to visit the conference website for further information.

Conference Resources

COAT NATIONAL

Challenges facing Administrative Tribunals - The complexity of legislative schemes and the shrinking space for preferable decision making

The Hon Justice Duncan Kerr Chev LH

The Queen Elizabeth II Courts of Law

Justice Alan Wilson

Tribunal Competency Framework - Promoting Professional Excellence

COAT National

Using videoconferencing to improve access to justice - Suggestions from the Gateways to Justice Project

Anne Wallace, University of Canberra

Tribunals as the Generic Face of Justice: a challenge for the 21st Century

Professor Robin Creyke

Recent Developments of interest to Tribunal Members - AUA case studies

Robin Creyke

Cognitive Autopsy

A/ Professor Hadia Haikal Mukhtar B Sc Hons; MBBS; FRACGP; LLB Hons.

Cognitive Autopsy

Dr Romesh Singam

Designing tribunal spaces How can architecture contribute to effective communication?

David Tait, Professor, Justice Research University of Western Sydney

COAT NSW Newsletter - April 2021

COAT NSW

COAT NSW Newsletter - September 2021

COAT NSW

Whitmore Lecture 2021 - Balancing informality with natural justice and the work of tribunals

The Honourable Virginia Bell AC

Conference Program: 2020 COAT NSW Webinar

COAT NSW

Conference Program: Responsive, resilient, reskilled - tribuanls in times of change

COAT National

23rd Annual COAT Conference, Responsive, resilient, reskilled - tribunals in times of change

Justice John Griffiths

Conference Program: 2021 Accessible and inclusive justice - What can tribunals do better?

COAT NSW

Judging - Determining Facts

Judge Paul Lakatos

Accessible Tribunal Technologies

Dr Kate Anderson

The importance of storytelling and narrative in tribunal decision-making

Bernard McCabe, Administrative Appeals Tribunal

COAT NSW Newsletter - March 2022

COAT NSW

Practical Strategies to Improve your Digital Accessibility

Dr Kate Anderson

COAT NSW Newsletter - May 2020

COAT NSW

COAT NSW Newsletter - August 2020

COAT NSW

COAT NSW Newsletter - 2019 Whitmore Lecture

COAT NSW

COAT NSW Newsletter - August 2019

COAT NSW

COAT NSW Newsletter - December 2019

COAT NSW

Whitmore Lecture 2019 - The Foundations of Administrative Law

The Honourable Chief Justice James Allsop AO

Making Sure That Curiosity Does Not Kill the CAT: the Use of Expert Evidence in Merits Review Fora Where the Rules of Evidence Do Not Apply1

Justice Rachel Pepper, Land and Environment Court of NSW

Conference Program: 2019 COAT NSW Conference. The future is now - traditional skills and new technologies

n/a

Working with interpreters in Boards and Tribunals

Susan Burdon-Smith, VCAT

The Justice Project - Improving access for groups withi particular communication needs

Leonie Campbell, Law Council of Australia

Push, Pull or Nudge? How Nudge Theory can offer new ways for tribunals to get the message across

Justice Iain Ross AO

Managing stress and maximising wellbeing for decision makers on tribunals, boards and panels

Carly Schrever, Judicial College of Victoria

Exploring Online Dispute Resolution'

Carolyn McSporran, VCAT

Conference Program: 2019 COAT National Conference. Communicating Justice: Tribunals in the Community

COAT

COAT Pratice Manual

COAT National

Tribunals of the Future - Toward Digital Tribunals?

The Hon. Justice Greg Garde AO RFD, President VCAT

Tribunal Physical Safety and Security

Sian Leathem

Thrills, Spills and Skills: Communicating Clearly

Gina Frampton

The Impacts of Self-Represented Litigants on Civil and Administrative Justice: Environmental Scan of Research, Policy and Practice

Dr Liz Richardson, Dr Genevieve Grant and Dr Janina Boughey with Dr Becky Batagol

The High Court's decision in Burns v Corbett

Dr Anna Olijnyk

Technology in the Federal Courts

Warwick Soden

Restoring Community Relations in a Digital Age - the Community Justice and Tribunals System

Principal District Judge Bala Reddy

Restoring Community Relations in a Digital Age - the Community Justice & Tribunals System (CJTS)

Principal District Judge Bala Reddy Community Justice & Tribunals Division State Courts, Singapore

Ex tempore decisions - or saving your sanity

Lorraine Walker, Chief Magistrate and Chief Coroner of the Australian Capital Territory

Conflicts of Interest - the Rule Against Bias

Laura Beacroft and Peta Spender ACT Civil and Administrative Tribunal ANU Law School

Brave New World

Sue Salthouse

Automating Justice- Rights and Liberties in a Digital World

Prof Genevieve Bell

Advance Australia Where? Making sense of the Census

Denise Carlton, ABS Chief Demographer

Providing Access to Justice: Taking Tribunals to the Community

Dr Bertus De Villiers (Member: SAT)

Working effectively & ethically in an environment of high emotion

Hugh Dillon

Working effectively & ethically in an environment of high emotion

Hugh Dillon

Using Emotional Intelligence to Enable a Successful Tribunal Hearing

Leanne Warner

Statutory Interpretation

James Emmett

Making Complex Decisions - Tools for Tribunal Members

Christia Ludlow

Statutory Interpretation

James Emmett

Writing Better Judgments

The Hon T F Bathurst AC

Dealing with distressed and volatile people

Dr Nick O'Connor

Conference Program: 2018 COAT NSW Annual Conference. Efficient, Informal and Fair

n/a

Access to Justice, Administrative Tribunals and the Rule of Law

The Hon Robert French AC

Whitmore Lecture 2017 - Separation of powers - Dialogue and deference

The Honourable Justice John Basten

Tribunals, diversity and the LGBTIQ community

Rodney Croome and Robin Banks

Safewards Victoria

Office of the Chief Mental Health Nurse, DHHS

Overview of eCourts/Tribunal Plan (WA)

Martin Jackson, Acting Director, Strategic Business Development, Court & Tribunal Services, Western Australian Department of the Attorney General

On-Line Resolution Tool (Guardianship and Administration) )

Mark Street, Executive Officer, State Administration Tribunal (WA)

Ketnote address: Adapting To and Bringing About Change - Case study: Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal

The Honourable Justice Greg Garde, President, Victorian Civil & Administrative Tribunal (VCAT)

Implementing VCAT's Digital Strategy - key challenges and risks

Edward Busuttil, IT Director, Strategic Projects, VCAT

Hackathon Hotspot

Mary Shortland, Executive Director - Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal (QCAT)

Future of Law and Justice 'The Impact of Technological Change on Courts and Tribunals'

Professor Tania Sourdin, Dean, University of Newcastle Law School

e-Mediation - Trial & Outcomes

Peter Johnstone, ADR Manager, QCAT

Diversity & Indigenous Clients: VCAT Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Engagement Project

Adrian Sculthorpe, Senior Manager, PwC's Indigenous Consulting

Diversity & Indigenous Clients: AAT Adelaide Registry

Ian Phillips, Acting District Registrar, AAT; Roula Karzis-Wyatt, Member, AAT

Client needs and satisfaction' Tribunal Excellence Framework

Keryn Negri, Chief Executive Officer, Victorian Civil & Administrative Tribunal (VCAT)

Applying the Framework for Tribunal Excellence & Measuring Performance: Panel -combined presentations

Keryn Negri, Chief Executive Officer, Victorian Civil & Administrative Tribunal (VCAT); Mary Shortland, Executive Director, Queensland Civil & Administrative Tribunal (QCAT); Sian Leathem, Principal Registrar, Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT)

Applying the Framework for Tribunal Excellence & Measuring Performance

Michael Vallance, Manager, International Framework for Court Excellence,Supreme Court of Victoria and Manager, International Framework for Judicial Support Excellence, Court Services Victoria

Applying the Framework for Tribunal Excellence & Measuring Performance

Michael Vallance, Manager, International Framework for Court Excellence,Supreme Court of Victoria and Manager, International Framework for Judicial Support Excellence, Court Services Victoria

Tribunals Excellence Framework

COAT National

Accessibility - Tribunal Excellence Framework

Mary Shortland, Executive Director - Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal (QCAT)

Conference Program: 2017 COAT National Registrar & Executive Officer Conference. Tribunal Accessibilty - Meeting Community Expectations

n/a

Working effectively in a diverse world

Anukool Sathu Diversity & Inclusion Consultant

Tribunals and Self-Represented Parties

Helen Shurven

Tips for Writing Clear, Logical and Concise Decisions

Justice Debra Mullins (Supreme Court of QLD)

The need to raise the bar: court interpreters as specialised experts*

Associate Professor Sandra Hale

Recent Developments in Tribunal Law

Joanna Davidson, Sixth Floor Selborne Wentworth Chambers

Keynote

Judy Atkinson

Flexibiilty, Informality and Despatch - Striking the balance in Tribunal decision-making

Keith Mason AC QC Council of Australasian Tribunals Conference

Communicating effectively with people with cognitive disability

Melinda Smith Coordinator Cognitive Disability Services

Access to Justice in Multicultural Australia

The Honourable Wayne Martin AC Chief Justice of Western Australia

The Unreasonable, Querulant and Vexatious as Self Represented Litigants

Dr Grant Lester Consultant Forensic Physchiatrist Victorian Institute of Forensic Mental Health

Building organisational competency in a diverse world

Anukool Sathu Diversity & Inclusion Consultant

Conference Program: 2017 COAT National & COAT (NSW) Joint Conference. Tribunals: Enablers of Justice

n/a

Whitmore Lecture 2016 - Judicial Review & the Shifting Sands of Legal Unreasonableness

The Honourable Justice MJ Beazley AO

Procedural Fairness - cases involving people from a culturally and linguistically diverse background. Paper

John Billings, Senior Member, AAT, Migration and Refugee Division

Procedural Fairness - cases involving people from a culturally and linguistically diverse background

John Billings, Senior Member, AAT, Migration and Refugee Division

Procedural Fairness - cases involving people from a culturally and linguistically diverse background

John Billings, Senior Member, AAT, Migration and Refugee Division

Natural Justice and Registered Health Practitioners

Elizabeth Kennedy, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre

Conference Program: 2016 Deliberation and Dilemmas in the Digital Age

COAT NSW

Natural Justice and Registered Health Practitioners

Elizabeth Kennedy General Counsel and Corporate Secretary Elizabeth Kennedy General Counsel and Corporate Secretary Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre

Ensuring Procedural Fairness - Tribunals to Courts

Presentation by Justice Greg Garde AO RFD President, Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal

Ensuring a Fair Hearing: Matters involving persons with a mental illness, cognitive impairment and/or intellectual disability

Matthew Carroll, President, Mental Health Tribunal

Ensuring a Fair Hearing: Matters involving persons with a mental illness, cognitive impairment and/or intellectual disability

Matthew Carroll, President, Mental Health Tribunal

Ensuring a fair hearing- matters involving persons with a mental illness, cognitive impairment or intellectual disability - National Disability Insurance Scheme Hearings

Jill Toohey, Senior Member, Administrative Appeals Tribunal

Ensuring a fair hearing- matters involving persons with a mental illness, cognitive impairment or intellectual disability Ensuring procedural fairness outside the hearing process

Susan Woodford, District Registrar, General & Other Divisions, Administrative Appeals Tribunal, Melbourne

Ensuring a fair hearing- matters involving persons with a mental illness, cognitive impairment or intellectual disability Ensuring a fair hearing- matters involving persons with a mental illness, cognitive impairment or intellectual disability Ensuring procedural fairness outside the hearing process

Susan Woodford, District Registrar, General & Other Divisions, Administrative Appeals Tribunal, Melbourne

Ensuring a fair hearing- matters involving persons with a mental illness, cognitive impairment or intellectual disability

Jill Toohey, Senior Member, Administrative Appeals Tribunal

Ensuring a Fair Hearing - Matters involving persons with a mental illness, cognitive impairment or intellectual disability - Hearings in the Guardianship list at VCAT

Bernadette Steele, Senior Member, Human Rights Division, VCAT

Ensuring a Fair Hearing - Matters involving persons with a mental illness, cognitive impairment or intellectual disability - Hearings in the Guardianship list at VCAT

Bernadette Steele, Senior Member, Human Rights Division, VCAT

Ensuring a Fair Hearing - Matters involving persons with a mental illness, cognitive impairment or intellectual disability - Hearings in the Guardianship list at VCAT

Bernadette Steele, Senior Member, Human Rights Division, VCAT

Disciplinary Hearings in the Regulated Professions: Procedural Fairness Issues

Elisabeth Wentworth, Deputy Head of List, Review and Regulation List, VCAT

Disciplinary Hearings in the Regulated Professions: Procedural Fairness Issues

Elisabeth Wentworth Deputy Head of List, Review and Regulation List, VCAT

Conference Paper

Justice Greg Garde AO RFD President, Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal

Affording Procedural Fairness: Culture and interpreters in Tribunal Hearings

John Longo, Member, AAT

Conference Program: 2016 COAT VIC Conference. Tribunals, Boards and Panels - Issues of Procedural Fairness

n/a

The Rule against Bias - Ongoing Evolution and Practical Conundrums for Tribunals

Prof Simon Young USQ School of Law & Justice UWA Faculty of Law

Legal Research Refresher

Christopher Matthies, Executive Director, Strategy & Policy

Going to the Cloud!

Phil Farrelly - Systems Artchitect

Conference Program: 2016 Between CATs and Courts

COAT NATIONAL

Firm but Fair - the Art of a Good Tribunal Hearing

Jan Redfern, Deputy President & Division Head of the Migration & Refuge Division of the AAT

Evidence from a digital device

Miiko Kumar, Jack Shand Chamber

Dealing with Complaints

Anne Darroch, Prinicpal Disputes Referee

Tensions in the Obligations of Tribunal Members

The Honourable Alan Wilson QC

Role of Reviewing Courts in Administrative Decision Making

The Honourable Justice Buchanan

Looking Over Your Shoulder, Tribunals in Australia

Mark Robinson SC

Looking Over Your Shoulder, Tribunals in Australia

Mark Robinson SC

Big Sister is watching - Orwellian overtones or no cause for alarm

Peta Stilgoe

Big Sister is watching - Orwellian overtones or no cause for alarm

Peta Stilgoe

Rounding Up CATs - The Respective Roles of Tribunals and Courts in Disciplinary Proceedings against Lawyers

Chris Edmonds SC

Whitmore Lecture 2015 - Whitmore and the Americans: Some American influences on the development of Australian Administrative Law

The Honourable Justice Stephen Gageler

COAT Best Practice Guide to Tribunal Independence in Appointments - Discussion Paper

COAT National

Best Pratice Guide to Tribunal Independence in Appointments - Discussion Paper - Call for Submissions

Duncan Kerr, COAT Chair

A Canadian perspective on tribunal independence

Professor Philip Bryden Faculty of Law, University of Alberta Visiting Professor, Adelaide Law School

Conference Program: 2015 Registrar & Executive Officer Conference Tribunal transformation and cultural change Ð fact or fiction?

n/a

The role of neurobiology in achieving a "Comfortable Satisfaction"

Dr Hayley Bennett

Effective Questioning for Eliciting Information from Witnesses in Tribunal Hearings

Angela Dixon, PHD Children's Hospital, Westmead Sydney

Drawn from Experience How to live the good life

Matthew Johnstone

Conference Program: 2015 Dreams & Realities: The Evolution of Tribunals

COAT NATIONAL

Tribunal law update

Sarah-jane Morris, Special Counsel

Conference Program: 2015 COAT National Registrar & Executive Officer Conference - Mind over Matters

n/a

Accessibility of Tribunals for Vulnerable or Disadvantaged Participants

Matthew Carroll, President, Victorian Mental Health Tribunal

Access to Justice, Law Schools, and Clinical Legal Education - The VCAT Self- Help Clinic

Professor Bryan Horrigan BA, LLB (Hons) (Qld), DPhil (Oxon)

Access to Justice Report - The Role of Tribunals

Angela MacRae Angela MacRae Commissioner, Productivity Commission

Tribunals and Administrative Law Times They are A'Changing

Robin Creyke

Structure and restructure, the rise of FDR and experts in hot tubs - Reflections on SAT's first decade

Judge David Parry

Mindfulness for resilience, wellbeing and sustainable performance

Dr Craig Hassed Senior Lecturer Monash University Department of General Practice

Opening Address

Hon. Justice Duncan Kerr. President, Administrative Appeals Tribunal

Conference Program: 2014 COAT National Annual Tribunals Conference. Tribunals in Transition - Sessional to Professional

n/a

Oral Decisions - Some Suggestions

Justice John Chaney

Tribunal Independence

Pamela O'Connor Monash University

Tribunal Independence

Justice Greg Parker, President, South Australian Civil and Administrative Tribunal

Engaging the public and encouraging excellence

Justice Iain Ross AO

Whitmore Lecture 2014 - The Value of Human Rights for Australia

Professor Gillian Triggs

International Framework for Tribunal Excellence April 2014

COAT National

Writing to clarify, engage and persuade

Gina Frampton Writing Comes Alive

Reasonableness and Reasons: lessons for good decision- making

K Mattes, A/Special Counsel

Personal Values: inevitable aids or obstacles to neutrality?

Keith Mason AC QC

Mindfulness Amidst the Madness How to use mindfulness to cultivate resilience and peak performance in decision making

Elizabeth Granger

Assessing Witness Credibility

Dr Richard Kemp University of New South Wales, Dr Helen Paterson The University of Sydney

Reasonableness and Reasons - Lessons for Good Decision-making

Kiri Mattes A/Special Counsel Administrative Law Crown Solicitor's Office NSW

Conference Program: 2014 COAT NSW Annual Conference. The Modern MemberÕs Guide to Decision Making

n/a

Whitmore Lecture 2013 - Forewarned and Four-Armed - Administrative Law Values and the Fourth Arm of Government

The Honourable Chief Justice Wayne Martin AC

Tribunal Independence - 2013 Edition

The Australasian Institute of Judicial Administration Incorporated (AIJA'); Associate Professor Pamela O'Connor Monash University; sponsored and supported by COAT National

Workplace Office Design Guidelines

COAT National & IA Group

Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers and Humans Do

Robyn Bradey

Intercultural Communication and Tribunal Craft

The Hon. Jennifer Boland AM

Form and Funciton in Tribunal Design

Professor David Tait

Form and Funciton in Tribunal Design

Glenn Turnbull

Form and Funciton in Tribunal Design

Julia Haraksin