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 Lecture 2024 - Jurisdictional Error & Materiality
The Hon. Justice Julie Ward
Whitmore Lecture 2023 -The Constitution and State Tribunals
The Hon Justice Beech-Jones
COAT NSW 2022 Whitmore Lecture - Prof Megan Davis
Prof Megan Davis
Whitmore Lecture 2021 - Balancing informality with natural justice and the work of tribunals
The Honourable Virginia Bell AC
Whitmore Lecture 2019 - The Foundations of Administrative Law
The Honourable Chief Justice James Allsop AO
Whitmore Lecture 2017 - Separation of powers - Dialogue and deference
The Honourable Justice John Basten
Whitmore Lecture 2016 - Judicial Review & the Shifting Sands of Legal Unreasonableness
The Honourable Justice MJ Beazley AO
Whitmore Lecture 2015 - Whitmore and the Americans: Some American influences on the development of Australian Administrative Law
The Honourable Justice Stephen Gageler
Whitmore Lecture 2014 - The Value of Human Rights for Australia
Professor Gillian Triggs
Whitmore Lecture 2013 - Forewarned and Four-Armed - Administrative Law Values and the Fourth Arm of Government
The Honourable Chief Justice Wayne Martin AC
Whitmore Lecture 2012 - The reason for administrative reasons - Osmond Revisited
The Honourable Michael Kirby AC CMG
Whitmore Lecture 2011 - The Constitutionalisation of State Administrative Law
Ronald Sackville QC AO
Whitmore Lecture 2010 - Freedom of information - a new paradigm
The Honourable Justice Ruth McColl AO
Whitmore Lecture 2009 - Can administrative law foster good administration?
Professor John McMillan AO
Whitmore Lecture 2008 - The Tribunal Dilemma : Rigorous Informality
The Honourable Justice Garry Downes AM
Whitmore Lecture 2007 - The Kerr Report: Its Continuing Significance
Sir Anthony Mason AC KBE
