Lawyers' Christian Fellowship

Papers

From time to time people are invited to address the Fellowship.  Some of these addresses are given in more informal contexts such as the annual Christmas function.  On other occasions speakers are invited to address particular topics related to their expertise or interests.  Over the years a number of papers have been delivered and it is hoped to progressively publish a number of these on this website.  The Fellowship are also looking to include on the site other papers which may be of interest to Christian Lawyers.

• Address to LCF Christmas Function 2005
  Justice Peter Young OA
   
• Opening of Law Term Address 2006
  Justice Peter Young OA
   
•  Evidence for the Resurrection
  Justice Peter Young OA 
   
• Christian Integrity in a Changing Society
  by Justice Keith Mason QC, President of the New South Wales Court of Appeal.

Link to a paper by Father Frank Brennan delivered at the University of Sydney on 7 August 2002 (linked with permission):

• Developing Just Refugee Policies in Australia: Local, National and International Concerns

From time to time the Fellowship invites members of the legal profession and others to address it at various breakfast, dinner and Christmas functions.  The following papers were presented at the 2nd Australasian Christian Legal Convention in Queensland and are located on the Christian Lawyers Queensland's website

• Justice for Indigenous People
  by Father Frank Brennan SJ AO
   
• Living faith in a life over-full
  by Dr Mary Crock
   
• Christian Meditation.
  by Judge F.W.M.McElrea
   
• Restoring Justice
  by Judge F.W.M.McElrea
   
• Connecting Christian Faith & Legal Practice
  by Dr Christine Parker.

Christians in Conflict - should Christians go to Court? by Dr Ross Clifford, Principal of Morling College

What Ethics? by Dr Ken Crispin, Judge of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory

Witnesses to the Resurrection - credible or not?  by Clarrie Briese former Chief Magistrate of New South Wales.

Mandatory Sentencing - a Christian Perspective by The Hon Justice Adams, Supreme Court Of New South Wales,
Chairman, NSW Law Reform Commission,

Living in the Shadowlands by Steven Nicholson, Solicitor.

Freedom from Religion: What Australia can learn from the American experience of religious pluralism by Stephen Gagelar, barrister.

Who judges the judges? by His Hon Justice Richard Gee, Family Court of Australia

Forgiving Sin and Punishing Crime  a link to the paper by His Honour Justice Keith Mason, President of the New South Wales Court of Appeal delivered to the Christian Lawyers Society in Queensland

Ethics and the Adversary System a link to the Zadok paper prepared by Dr Ken Crispin, Judge of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory

Other Papers

Testimony of the Evangelists Examined by the Rules of Evidence Administered in Courts of Justice.
by Professor Simon Greenleaf (1783-1853)