This annual seminar will provide an outline of recent constitutional developments in three jurisdictions — the United States, Canada and New Zealand — that are of key interest to Australian constitutional lawyers. Experts from each jurisdiction will report on three...

Paper presented by Professor Suri Ratnapala and Dr Jonathon Crowe (University of Queensland) The High Court has long struggled with the constitutional status of military tribunals established to hear disciplinary charges against service personnel. The Court's judgments reveal three distinct...

Paper presented by Professor Helen Irving (Sydney Law School): Among the many issues facing the High Court in Momcilovic v The Queen [2011] HCA 34, was the constitutional validity of "declarations of inconsistent interpretation" made under section 36 of the...

Most Australian judges are remunerated through a package of benefits that includes salary during their years of judicial service, a judicial pension paid during their years of retirement, and a spousal pension paid to a judge's surviving spouse until the...