How to make law reform work

Making law reform work will be the subject of the annual Mayo Lecture at James Cook University this Thursday (September 13).

Presented by Justice Marcia Neave of the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Victoria, the lecture will be held in the Padua Theatre on the Douglas Campus and video conferenced to the Crowther Theatre on the Cairns Campus.

Justice Neave was appointed to the Court of Appeal in Victoria last year but before that was the foundation chairperson of the Victorian Law Reform Commission between 2001 and 2006.

She previously held a personal Chair of Law at Monash University and has been a professor at Adelaide University and at the Australian National University.

In the early 1980s she was Research Director and then a part-time commissioner at the New South Wales Law Reform Commission.

Justice Neave has co-authored books on restrictive covenants and easements, wills and intestacy and family property law.

Her lecture will be on Making Law Reform work – limits and challenges.

Put on by JCU’s School of Law and the Law Students’ Society, the Mayo Lecture commemorates the work of Marylyn Mayo who was one of the key players in having a Faculty of Law established at James Cook University in the late 1980s.

Before that students did their first two years of their Law Degree at JCU but had to complete their studies at the University of Queensland.

An active member of both the JCU community and the wider northern Queensland community, Ms Mayo was acting Dean of the Faculty when it was established and served as Deputy Dean until 1993.

She died in 2002.

The 2007 Mayo Lecture will be delivered at 7pm on Thursday September 13 in the Padua Theatre (MT103) in the Medical School in Townsville and video-conferenced to the Crowther Theatre (Room A3.2) on the Smithfield Campus in Cairns.

Contact: Bronwyn Murray, Secretary of the School of Law 07 4781 4517

JCU Media Liaison, Jim O’Brien 07 4781 4822 or 0418 892449