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The Chief Justice, the President and the Judges of the Court of Appeal and Trial Division are called upon to speak from time to time upon various legal or associated topics. The following speeches and papers are made available to the legal profession and the general public.

These speeches and papers are copyright works. Permission is given for fair dealing with these speeches and papers as permitted under copyright legislation, including for the purpose of private study and research. Apart from those uses, no part may be reproduced without prior written permission.

  1. The speech 'Monash University Faculty of Law, Graduation Ceremony' was given by the Hon. Justice Bell on 4 May 2006 at Robert Blackwood Hall.
  2. The speech titled 'The Building Cases List of the Supreme Court of Victoria' was given by the Hon. Justice Habersberger on 16 November 2005 at the Building Dispute Practitioners' Society Inc.

  3. The speech titled 'Human Rights: A View from the Bench' was given by the Hon. Justice Maxwell, the President of the Court of Appeal on 26 October 2005 as an Address to the Annual General Meeting of the Administrative Law and Human Rights section of the Law Institute of Victoria.

  4. The speech titled 'Human Rights and the Criminal Law' given by the Hon. Justice Vincent AO on 16 October 2003 at the 14th Sir Leo Cussen Memorial Lecture.

  5. The following document is the speech titled 'Keynote Address: Codification and Just Outcomes' given by the Hon. Justice R Osborn on 31 October 2002 at the National Environmental Law Association Conference.