We are pleased to invite registrations for the abovementioned international conference of courts and tribunals dealing with environmental matters, which the Land and Environment Court of NSW and the Judicial Commission of NSW are co-hosting between 31 August and 4 September 2010 in Sydney.

Eleven countries are expected to be represented at the conference.

Enclosed is a copy of the conference program. The program is virtually finalised, except for the speakers from the Supreme Court of Thailand (where there has been some unrest which has caused delay).

You will see that we have been fortunate in securing excellent speakers from Australia and abroad on a range of highly topical subjects.

The courts and tribunals represented at the conference will be not only the traditional environmental courts and tribunals in Australia and New Zealand, but also superior courts which deal with environmental matters. For example, superior courts from Thailand, the Philippines, Indonesia and India will be represented at the conference. This indicates the development and spread of environmental law to all courts and not just the specialist ones.

Justice Peter Biscoe
Chair, 2010 ACPECT Conference, Sydney
Land and Environment Court of New South Wales
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