Whitmore Lectures
Background
Since 2007 the Council of Australasian Tribunals (NSW) has held an annual lecture in honour of the late Professor Harry Whitmore. The aims of COAT include working with tribunals, organisations and governments to develop and promote administrative justice. An eminent academic, Professor Whitmore was a member of the Kerr Committee whose groundbreaking recommendations led to citizens being given the right to challenge decisions made by the bureaucracy and greater openness and transparency in government.
Whitmore and the Americans: Some American influences on the development of Australian Administrative Law
The Honourable Justice Stephen Gageler
The Value of Human Rights for Australia
Professor Gillian Triggs
The Tribunal Dilemma : Rigorous Informality
The Honourable Justice Garry Downes AM
The reason for administrative reasons - Osmond Revisited
The Honourable Michael Kirby AC CMG
The Kerr Report: Its Continuing Significance
Sir Anthony Mason AC KBE
The Foundations of Administrative Law
The Honourable Chief Justice James Allsop AO
The Constitutionalisation of State Administrative Law
Ronald Sackville QC AO
Separation of powers - Dialogue and deference
The Honourable Justice John Basten
Judicial Review & the Shifting Sands of Legal Unreasonableness
The Honourable Justice MJ Beazley AO
Freedom of information - a new paradigm
The Honourable Justice Ruth McColl AO