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 Local Judicial Training Activities Organised by the Hong Kong Judicial Institute
| Date | Activity |
| 31.3.2017 | Magistrates’ Workshop on “Skills on handling Self Represented Parties” |
| 9.6.2017 | Coroners’ Workshop |
| 5.7.2017 | Workshop on Wellbeing |
| 6.7.2017 | Talk entitled “Restating the Common Law – the American Law Institute” by the Hon Mr Justice Robert FRENCH, AC, Non-Permanent Judge of the Court of Final Appeal |
| 21.9.2017 | Talk entitled “Things to note in an urgent habeas corpus application” by the Hon Mr Justice Thomas AU, Judge of the Court of First Instance of the High Court |
| 16.10.2017 | Talk entitled “Contractual Interpretation: Do Judges Sometimes Say One Thing and Do Another?” by The Rt Hon Sir Geoffrey VOS, Chancellor of the High Court of England and Wales |
| 21.10.2017 | Visit to Shek Kwu Chau Treatment and Rehabilitation Centre of the Society for the Aid and Rehabilitation of Drug Abusers |
| 26 - 27.10.2017 | Induction Course for Newly Appointed Permanent Magistrates 2017 |
| 26.10.2017 | Talk entitled “Arrest and Release of Vessels – a simple roadmap” by the Hon Mr Justice Anthony CHAN, Judge of the Court of First Instance of the High Court |
| 27.10.2017 | Talk entitled “Online courts, AI and the future of justice” by Professor Dame Hazel GENN, Co-Director of the UCL Judicial Institute, Faculty of Laws, University College London |
| 23.11.2017 | Talk entitled “Mareva Injunctions and Other Urgent Injunctions” by the Hon Mr Justice Godfrey LAM and the Hon Mr Justice Anderson CHOW, Judges of the Court of First Instance of the High Court |
| 24.11.2017 | Talk entitled “Mareva Injunctions, Anton Piller Orders and Miscellaneous Applications” by the Hon Mr Justice Godfrey LAM and the Hon Mr Justice Anderson CHOW, Judges of the Court of First Instance of the High Court |
| 19.12.2017 | Briefing session on “Neutral Citation and Legal Reference System” |
Other Local Judicial Training Activities Attended by Judges and Judicial Officers
| Date | Activity |
| 18.2.2017 | The 2nd Guardianship Conference of Hong Kong, organised by the Guardianship Board |
| 30.3.2017 | Lecture entitled “Case Management and Family Law”, organised by the University of Hong Kong |
| 5.4.2017 | Talk entitled “The latest development of recognition and enforcement of foreign judgment: from an international perspective”, organised by the Asian Academy of International Law |
| 7.4.2017 | Seminar entitled “Judging, Diversity and Sensitivity in Family Law – One Judge’s Views”, organised by the University of Hong Kong |
| 27.4.2017 | Seminar entitled “Detecting Collusion among Competitors – Economic Evidence”, organised by the University of Hong Kong |
| 8 - 11.5.2017 | Training programme entitled “Handling Expert Witnesses (Financial and Medical)”, organised by the Hong Kong Advocacy Training Council |
| 4.7.2017 | Talk entitled “Real World Goals – Convergence and Cross-Fertilisation in Commercial Law” by the Hon Mr Justice Robert FRENCH, AC, Non-Permanent Judge of the Court of Final Appeal, organised by the Hong Kong Chapter, Law Council of Australia |
| 22.8.2017 | Talk entitled “UK Defamation Act 2013 – Strengths and Weaknesses”, organised by the Hong Kong Bar Association |
| 29.8.2017 | Talk entitled “Quality of Death – Law & Ethics”, organised by the New Medico-Legal Society of Hong Kong |
| 31.8.2017 | Talk entitled “Politics, Secrecy and the Rule of Law”, organised by the Hong Kong Bar Association |
| 13.9.2017 | Lecture entitled “Judges, Access to Justice, the Rule of Law and the Court of Final Appeal under ‘One Country Two Systems’” by The Rt Hon the Lord NEUBERGER of Abbotsbury, Non-Permanent Judge of the Court of Final Appeal, organised by the University of Hong Kong |
| 21.9.2017 | Lecture entitled “Law Reform Challenges: The Judicial Perspective”, organised by the Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| 18.10.2017 | 2nd UNCITRAL Asia Pacific Judicial Summit 2017, organised by the Regional Centre for Asia and the Pacific of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law, Department of Justice and the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre |
| 20.11.2017 | Lecture entitled “Judicial Review: Does it Help or Hinder Good Administration?”, organised by the University of Hong Kong |
| 15.12.2017 | Lecture entitled “Illegality and Statute - Where to Now?” by Mr Justice GUMMOW, Non-Permanent Judge of the Court of Final Appeal, organised by the University of Hong Kong |
Judicial Training Activities Organised with/by Other Jurisdictions/Organisations
| Date | Activity |
| 17 - 22.3.2017 | The Twelfth Multinational Judicial Colloquium on Insolvency, co-organised by the INSOL International, the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) and the World Bank Group and the Tenth Quadrennial Congress of INSOL International in Sydney, Australia |
| 5 - 7.4.2017 | 7th Annual Competition Law Workshop for Asia-Pacific Judges in Manila, the Philippines, organised by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development / Korea Policy Centre |
| 18 - 20.6.2017 | International Insolvency Institute’s 17th Annual Conference in London, England |
| 31.10 - 3.11.2017 | Asia Pacific Coroners’ Society Conference in Glenelg, South Australia |
| 5 - 9.11.2017 | 8th International Conference on the Training of the Judiciary of the International Organisation for Judicial Training in Manila, the Philippines |
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