Honorary Appointments
2007 Member, Advisory Group on New Technologies,
Australian
Law Reform Commission (ALRC)
Reference
on
Privacy
2004 Member, Core Consultative Group on Privacy
Legislation,
Australian Attorney-General’s Department
1999-2001 - Member, Communications Network of the
UNESCO
National Commission (Australia)
2000 Member, Core Consultative Group on Privacy
Legislation, Australian Attorney-General’s Department
1997- Member on advisory committee on use of court
technologies, Australian Law Reform
Commission, Reference on the adversarial process
1999 - Member, Core Consultative Group (CCG) on
privacy
legislation, appointed by the Cth Attorney-General, representing
Electronic
Frontiers Australia (EFA)
1998-9 – Member (representing consumer and privacy
interests) Government Public Key Authority (GPKA), overseeing use of
digital
signatures and related technologies by Federal Government agencies.
1995-6 Member, NSW
Privacy Committee, pursuant to the
Privacy Committee Act 1975
(NSW)
1995-2000 Member of advisory committee on legal
computerisation, Australian
Institute of
Judicial Administration
1991- Australian
Institute
of Judicial Administration - member of Working Party to develop
Guide to
Uniform Production of Judgments (AIJA, 1992)
1987–90 Member, NSW
Privacy Committee, pursuant to the
Privacy Committee Act 1975
(NSW).
1985–7 Consultant,
Australian Law Reform Commission,
Reference on Expungement of Criminal Records.
Professional Associations and NGO positions
1997 - 2002 Co-founder, International Association
of Public
Legal Information Institutes, subsequently to become the Free Access to
Law
Movement
Editorial Positions
1994-2006 Founding Editor and General Editor
Privacy Law &
Policy
Reporter (LexisNexis Australia 2001-05, previously Prospect
Publishing
1994-2001)
Honorary Appointment to Editorial Boards
Script-ED
, University of
Edinburg, UK (2001–)
Transnational
Data and
Communications Report (TDR), Amsterdam (1991 –)
Yearbook of Law
Computers
& Technology, Butterworths (UK) (1990 – )
Computer/Law
Series
Kluwer Law & Taxation Publishers, Deventer (Netherlands) (1987 – )
International
Review of
Computers Technology & the Law Prospect Publishing (1985-6)
Commercial consultancies
2006 – European Commission (via CRID, Belgium) –
Consultancy to update an advisory report on the adequacy of Australia’s
privacy laws (with Dr Lee Bygrave)
2006/7 AusAID – Consultancy on Internet access to
law
in six Asian jurisdictions (with A Mowbray and P Chung)
2005 European Commission (via CRID, Belgium) –
Consultancy to provide an advisory report on the adequacy of
Australia’s
privacy laws (with Dr Lee Bygrave)
2003 National Office for the Information Economy
(NOIE)
– Consultancy on legal aspects of proposed national authentication
framework (as part of Convergence P/L team)
1997-2002 Asian Development Bank - International
Consultant
(team leader, with other colleagues) on Project DIAL (Development of
the
Internet for Asian Law), SSTA feasibility study (1997-98) and RETA
(1999-2002)
2000 Gilbert + Tobin, Lawyers – consultancy on
Australian private sector privacy laws
1996 Federal Bureau of Road Safety / Keatsdale Pty
Ltd -
consultancy on privacy aspects of red light and speed cameras;
1995-6 NSW Law Foundation - consultancy for
development of
the ‘Foundation Law’ internet service (with A Mowbray and G
King);
1995 Bar Association of NSW and NSW Law Society -
developed
internet resources (with A Mowbray and G King)
1995 Info-One International - consultancy on
development of
Info-One's computerised legal products (with A Mowbray and P van Dijk);
1993 Commonwealth Attorney-General's Department -
consultancy on re-development of the SCALE legal information retrieval
system
(with A Mowbray and P van Dijk)
1993 Australian Securities Commission - consultancy
on
ASC’s development of litigation support systems, and preparation of
consultant’s report (with A Mowbray).
1992 Mallesons Solicitors - consultancy and
development of
prototype information system in an area of law (with A Mowbray);
1992 Australian Institute of Judicial
Administration and
the National Crime Authority – to prepare a Report on the use of
information technology to assist in the conduct of complex criminal
trials (with
A Mowbray).
1991 Info-One International Pty Ltd - consultancy
and
development of a prototype for the replacement of the Info-One on-line
legal
information system (with A Mowbray).
1990 Privacy Commissioner (Commonwealth) -
consultancy to
develop a prototype computerised information system on Commonwealth
privacy law
(with A Mowbray).
1990 Freehills Solicitors, Sydney - consultancy
advice on
development of a legal expert system (with A Mowbray and A Tyree).
1990 NSW Judicial Commission - consultancy advice,
and
development of a hypertext/ free-text retrieval prototype of the
Sentencing Law
Advisory System (with A Mowbray).
1989 The Laws of Australia (Law Book Co Ltd) -
development
of a prototype hypertext / free-text retrieval representation of a
loose-leaf
law reporting service, and presentation of the system at the Laws of
Australian
Convention (with A Mowbray and A Tyree).
1989 Privacy Commissioner (Commonwealth) — Special
Adviser on Data Protection Policy to the Privacy Commissioner (one year
part-time consultancy in Commissioner's initial year of office)