FAR NORTH
MEDICO LEGAL
SOCIETY INC.
The Far North Medico Legal Society Inc and the Far North Queensland Law Association Inc are
pleased to host an event not to be missed. Formal dinner with The Honourable Paul de Jersey
AC, Chief Justice of Queensland as Guest Speaker.
Date: Wednesday 31 October 2012
Time: 6.00 pm for 6.30 pm
Venue: Shangri-La Function Centre, Pierpoint Road, Cairns.
Cost: $75 per person
Inclusions: Canapes, 2 course buffet meal and 3 hour standard drinks package
Payments and RSVPs to be received by Wednesday 24 October.
Payments can be made by cheque to PO Box 5223, Cairns or by payment electronically into
BSB: 704 966 Acc: 100013031 (please ensure that you include your name on the electronic
transaction).
Please email Andrea Turner at [email protected] with any queries and to confirm payment
has been made.
The Honourable Paul de Jersey AC
Companion of the Order of Australia (2000)
Centenary Medal (2003)
Hon LLD (Qld) (2000)
Life Member Bar Association of Queensland
Called to the Bar (Queensland) 1971; appointed Her Majesty’s Counsel 1981.
Appointed a Judge of the Supreme Court of Queensland in 1985; Commercial
Causes Judge 1986-1989; Chairman, Supreme Court Library Committee 19881994; Chairman, Attorney-General’s Consultative Committee on
Computerised Legal Information Retrieval 1990-1991; Judge constituting the
Mental Health Tribunal, 1994-1996; President, Queensland Industrial Court,
1996-1997; Chairman, Law Reform Commission (Qld) 1996-1997.
Appointed Chief Justice of Queensland 17 February 1998.
Chair, Judicial Section, Law Association of Asia and the Pacific (LAWASIA),
since 2006.
President, Australian Cancer Society 1998-2001 (Vice President 1995-1998);
Trustee of the National Breast Cancer Foundation 1994-1999; Chairman of the
Queensland Cancer Fund 1994-2001.
Member, Centenary of Federation Committee (Queensland), 1998-2002.
Chair, Queensland Constitutional Convention, Gladstone, June 1999.
Honorary Doctor of the University, University of Southern Queensland (2008).
Member, Independent Commission on the Future of Policing (UK), from 2012.