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Geoffrey Robertson QC on Statute of Liberty – How Australians can take back their rights

DateSun 29 Mar 2009
Time3:30pm
VenueSLQ Auditorium 1 - Enter Level 2 through the security and cloak room. See Level 2 map here - Level 2 Map
StreamAction and Advocacy
FormatKeynote

Geoffrey Robertson
3:30pm – 4.30pm
FREE

Human rights lawyer, academic, author and broadcaster Geoffrey Robertson QC talks about the rights Australians think they have, and how they can actually have them.

Geoffrey Robertson (QC) - Advocacy and Action

Geoffrey Robertson QC has been counsel in many landmark cases in constitutional, criminal and media law in the courts of Britain and the commonwealth and he makes frequent appearances in the Privy Council and the European Court of Human Rights.

He is the author of Crimes against Humanity – The Struggle for Global Justice, published by Penguin and the New Press (USA), now in its third edition; of a memoir, The Justice Game (Vintage), which has sold over 100,000 copies, and of Robertson and Nicol on Media Law (Sweet & Maxwell).

He writes and broadcasts regularly on international legal issues and creates Geoffrey Robertson’s Hypotheticals for television and for ethics education.
Geoffrey Robertson (QC) - Advocacy and Action

Geoffrey Robertson QC has been counsel in many landmark cases in constitutional, criminal and media law in the courts of Britain and the commonwealth and he makes frequent appearances in the Privy Council and the European Court of Human Rights.

He is the author of Crimes against Humanity – The Struggle for Global Justice, published by Penguin and the New Press (USA), now in its third edition; of a memoir, The Justice Game (Vintage), which has sold over 100,000 copies, and of Robertson and Nicol on Media Law (Sweet & Maxwell).

He writes and broadcasts regularly on international legal issues and creates Geoffrey Robertson’s Hypotheticals for television and for ethics education.




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