Fifty years of the Family Law Act will be examined by the Honourable Mary Finn as part of the Selden Society Lecture Series this month.
This second 2025 lecture, on Thursday 26 June at 5.30pm, will explain broadly the fundamental changes to divorce and matrimonial causes law introduced by the Family Law Act in 1975.
It will also demonstrate how the many changes to the Act over the past 50 years have transformed family law as much as, if not more than, the original changes introduced in 1975.
Her Honour worked in private legal practice in England and Brisbane after being admitted to the Queensland Bar in December 1969. She was a research assistant to the first Parliamentary Inquiry into the Family Law Act before working in the Commonwealth Attorney-General’s Department on amendments to the Family Law Act and the creation of the child support scheme.
She was appointed a Judge of the Family Court of Australia in 1990 and to the Appeal Division in 1993. Her Honour was the Senior Judge and Judge Administrator of that Division from 2004 until her retirement in 2016. She has been a member of the Family Law Council and the Board of the Institute of Family Studies.
The lecture will be held at Banco Court, Queen Elizabeth II Courts of Law (Level 3, 415 George Street, Brisbane).
Practitioners can register now to attend the lecture, including refreshments and networking in the Portrait Gallery after. This lecture will be livestreamed via Zoom.
The Supreme Court Library Queensland on behalf of the Selden Society Australian Chapter hosts an annual program of lectures featuring prominent and renowned guest speakers covering a range of topics focused on legal heritage.
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