Speaker: The Hon Pamela Tate AM KC

Commentator: Professor Sarah Joseph

Chair: The Hon Justice Peter Applegarth AM

Join us in the Banco Court in Brisbane at our inaugural event to launch the Human Rights Law Association. We are excited to hear from our new patron, the Hon Pamela Tate, who will speak about the role of proportionality under Australia's human rights instruments.

The Hon Pamela Tate was a judge of the Victorian Court of Appeal between 2010 and 2021. Her Honour is currently an Adjunct Professor of Law at Monash University. She has played a critical role in the development of human rights law in Australia, having decided key human rights cases as a judge, having appeared as counsel in the early cases in the jurisprudence of the Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities Act 2006 (Vic), and before that in her role as Special Counsel to the Human Rights Consultation Committee that recommended the enactment of the Charter.

The Hon Justice Peter Applegarth is chairing the evening and Professor Sarah Joseph, a human rights scholar from Griffith University, will respond to the paper, with time for questions, before refreshments.