The 2024 Whitmore Lecture will be delivered by The Honourable Justice Julie Ward, President of the NSW Court of Appeal.

The lecture will be held on Wednesday 12 June 2024 at Court 18C, Queens Square Law Courts Building, 184 Phillip Street, Sydney NSW 2000. Please join us at 5.00pm for 5.30pm start. Light refreshments will be served at the conclusion of the lecture. The lecture will also be available online. Keep your eye on your inbox for the official invite with RSVP details which will be sent soon.

Justice Ward studied arts/law at the University of Sydney, graduating in law in 1982 with First Class Honours and the University Medal. Her Honour was admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court in 1982.

Following graduation, Justice Ward worked for a year as the associate to Sir Nigel Bowen, the first Chief Justice of the Federal Court. Justice Ward worked for Stephen Jaques Stone James (now King & Wood Mallesons) for two years, then completed a BCL with first class honours at Oxford University, having won a post-graduate scholarship from Sydney University.

Justice Ward was made a partner of Mallesons in 1988. At that time she was the youngest female partner to be appointed at that firm. Her Honour was appointed to the Supreme Court of New South Wales in September 2008. She was the first female solicitor directly appointed to the Supreme Court bench. She sat in the Equity Division of the Court, until her appointment to the Court of Appeal in November 2012. She was appointed Chief Judge in Equity in March 2017 and appointed President of the Court of Appeal on 6 March 2022.

PLEASE NOTE BOOKINGS ARE NOW CLOSED.