10am - 3pm

The BMC open day provides an opportunity for the whole community to gain a broader understanding of how our courts operate and features fun and educational activities surrounding legal and justice topics. The open day further provides an opportunity to access legal information and will also include:

• trade displays
• information sessions
• mock mediations
• court tours
• moot court trials, where fairytale characters from Snow White, the Three Little Pigs, Robin Hood and the Gingerbread Man appear charged with their fairytale crimes.

A complete event program is available here.

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The event will include:

• moot court trials, where some of your favourite fairytale characters from the Brisbane Magistrates Court trials, give evidence and stand trial and sentencing
• seminars for self-represented litigants.

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Queensland Courts Communication 07 3247 9262

Courtroom 10, Level 2, Law Courts Complex, 304 George Street, Brisbane

11:15am and 12:30pm

Are you representing yourself in a civil case in the Supreme or District Courts in Brisbane? Two seminars will be held to help litigants understand the court process and learn about the various support services that are available.

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10.30am and 11.30am daily

Tours will be conducted daily throughout Law Week. Tour groups will learn about court processes, the history of the court in Queensland and will take a tour through Brisbane’s impressive Banco Court.

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QUT faculties are joining forces to inform, demonstrate and stimulate community interest in innovation, science and technology and social issues as they commence one of the state’s largest community outreach programs in the 5th QUT Train to travel throughout Queensland in the last decade.

The train travels throughout Queensland for 5 weeks stopping at 24 regional and rural centres and is then in Brisbane for a further week. There will be four carriages fully fitted out with exciting, interactive and informative displays and QUT staff will be on hand to explain the activities and displays.

For further information visit http://www.train.qut.edu.au/

7:00pm

Reginald Rose's classic "12 Angry Men" comes to the Banco Court, complete with real solicitors, barristers and judges. A rehearsed reading by special arrangement with Dominie Pty Ltd.

It is 1954 and a terrible murder has been committed - a man has been stabbed, apparently by his own son. For this kind of crime there is only one penalty - the death penalty. As the jury retire to consider their verdict, it seems almost certain that the defendant will be put to death. Nearly all of the jurors are convinced of his guilt - except one. The argument that follows has been on stage countless times, and also on film - twice.

The cast includes:

• The Hon Chief Justice Paul de Jersey
• The Hon Justice HG Fryberg
• The Hon Justice AM Daubney
• Stephen Keim SC
• Ralph Devlin SC
• Matthew Foley, barrister-at-law, former Attorney-General and Minister for the Arts
• Peter Carne, CEO, Queensland Law Society
• Terry O'Gorman, Partner, Robertson O'Gorman Solicitor

Also featuring:

• Bryan Probets as Juror 10
• Paul Bishop as Juror 8

The evening will conclude with a panel discussion led by the Hon Justice MJ White.

Entry is free - although donations will be taken for the Caxton Legal Centre.

View the event poster.

Directed by Christina Koch of Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble. Brought to you by the Bar Association Queensland and Queensland Young Lawyers.

12AngryMen@qldyounglawyers.com.au for reservations.

Following on from the success of 2007’s trivia night, the event encourages anyone interested to participate in 2 rounds of law questions and 3 rounds of general knowledge.

Calista Bruschi 07 3842 5849

12.30pm - 2pm

View the event poster for further information.

This event will be promoted during Law Week but has now been moved to Friday, 6 June 2008.

Calista Bruschi 07 3842 5849

Starts at 7:30pm

QUOTALS President president@quotals.com

This annual event this year has the theme Linking You and the Law, and gives students the opportunity to win great prizes and become the official QLS law week poster.

Calista Bruschi 07 3842 5849

10.30am - 11.30am

(Please note the original date had been promoted as Wednesday 15 May).

A web-based seminar focusing on legal research will be conducted by the Supreme Court Library.

Supreme Court Library 07 3247 4373
http://www.sclqld.org.au/

Time of event is TBC

• mini 1st year law course lecture to allow students to experience what a real life law lecture is like
• moot court

Rene Seng, Marketing Coordinator, Faculty of Business USQ 07 4631 2997 or email seng@usq.edu.au