Law Week Debate

Multiple fatality accidents involving young drivers happen all too often in New South Wales. What if parliament passed a law to restrict  P1 and P2 licence holders to a maximum of one passenger in the vehicle at any time?  Would it be a practical measure to reduce the road toll, or a serious inconvenience to young adults?

Law Week, in partnership with the Motor Accidents Authority, invites schools across New South Wales to debate this important topic. Why not challenge another school in your suburb, town or region?  To help get things moving, Law Week has drafted a bill.

For further ideas, check out this video, in which we ask students what they think about restrictions on P1 and P2 licences.

privacy forum

Program

9:30am: Launch with general public audience
Opening welcome: Mary Macken, NSW Law Society President
Opening remarks: John McAteer, The Principal Privacy Officer, NSW Privacy Office

10:00am: Identity theft, scams & rip-offs - how to avoid loss from fraud
Speaker: Federal Police Inspector Damien Stewart

10:30am: A perspective from students point of view on unauthorized use of private data

Speaker: Tim Robinson, Sydney University Archivist

11:00am: Departmental Update on Electronic Health Records
Speaker: (A speaker from the Canberra’s Health Department)

12.00 noon: Using Facebook - Tips & Traps
Speaker: Geoff Holland, UTS Lecturer

1.00pm: Free coffee and biscotti at the Theatrette Bar

2.00pm: A summary of current privacy legal rights (for Italian audience)
Speaker: an Inner West Law Society Solicitor

3.00pm: The 2011 Amendment of the 1988 laws on credit rating. The new look expanded credit risk databases (for a legal audience)
Speaker: Olga Ganopolsky, Head of Legal & Compliance, Veda Advantage

4.00pm: The 2009 LRC Draft Bill creating a statutory tort for damages for invasion of privacy. Recent Australian privacy case decisions
Speakers: Nicholas Newton of 13 Wentworth Selborne Chambers with Michael Rivette of Blackstone Chambers