2004 Nominees

Justice Medal

The Justice Medal is presented to an individual who has demonstrated outstanding achievement in improving access to justice in NSW, particularly for socially and economically disadvantaged people. This may have been demonstrated in a range of activities over an extended period or in a single significant activity.

AustLII founders — Professor Graham Greenleaf and Professor Andrew Mowbray
Nominated by: Emeritus Professor Garth Nettheim, University of NSW
Cec Brahe, Magistrate
Nominated by: John Le Breton, Director, Victims Services
Anne Cregan, Blake Dawson Waldron
Nominated by: the Reverend Bill Crews, The Exodus Foundation
Sawathey Ek OAM, Ethnic Legal Advice Services
Nominated by: Cheng Kong
Wayne Evans, Magistrate, Port Macquarie
Nominated by: Robert Oakeshott, MP, Member for Port Macquarie
Cassandra Goldie, Senior Policy Officer, Centre for Housing Rights and Evictions
Nominated by: Andrew Dalton, Redfern Legal Centre Publishing
Elizabeth (Libby) Goss, Community Legal Centre Solicitor
Nominated by: Toni Quigley, Springwood Neighbourhod Centre
Father Ted Kennedy, Catholic Priest
Nominated by: Dan Gilbert, Gilbert + Tobin
Helen Larcombe, ASK!
Nominated by: Amanda Noffs, Ted Noffs Foundation
Elizabeth McEntyre, Manager, Aboriginal Health Unit, Justice Health
Nominated by: Kim Katon, Aboriginal Identities
Dr Robert Mowbray, Western Sydney Tenants' Service
Nominated by: Nick Eastman, Tenants Union of NSW
Michael Raper, NSW Welfare Rights Centre
Nominated by: Deborah Connors, Attorney General's Department
Gilson Saunders
Nominated by: Greg Bond, Sydney Regional Aboriginal Corporation Legal Service
Robert Wheeler, Legal Aid Commission's Mental Health Advocacy Service (MHAS)
Nominated by: Geoffrey Tremelling, Legal Aid Commission of NSW

Aboriginal Justice Award

Sponsored by the NSW Attorney General's Department

The Aboriginal justice Award is presented to an Aboriginal individual, or a group of Aboriginal individuals, who have demonstrated outstanding commitment to improving access to justice for Aboriginal people in NSW. This may have been demonstrated in a range of activities over an extended period, or in a single significant activity.

Jim Allen, South Coast Aboriginal Tenants Service (Murra Mia)
Nominated by: Ruth Simon, Dterawarra, (Aboriginal Resource Unit for the Aboriginal Tenants Service)
Kath Ingram (deceased)
Nominated by: Trish Frail-Gibbs, Wirringa Baiya
Elizabeth McEntyre, Manager, Aboriginal Health Unit, Justice Health
Nominated by: Kim Katon, Aboriginal Identities
Gregory Moodie, Sheriff's Office, Nowra
Nominated by: Ian Girkin, Sheriff's Office, Nowra
Carmen Parter, Aboriginal Justice Advisory Council
Nominated by: John Feneley, NSW Attorney General's Department
Patricia Ping, Aboriginal Domestic Violence Support Worker
Nominated by: Senior Constable Suzanne Newton
Gilson Saunders
Nominated by: Greg Bond, Sydney Regional Aboriginal Corporation Legal Service
George Shearer, Roads and Traffic Authority
Nominated by: Paul Forward, Roads and Traffic Authority
Melissa Stubbings, Coordinator, Aboriginal Legal Access Project
Nominated by: Gina Vizza, Hawkesbury Nepean Community Legal Centre
Phillip Sullivan, Bourke
Nominated by: Dean Hart, NSW Attorney General's Department
The Team from Mudgin-Gal Aboriginal Corporation
Nominated by: Redfern Legal Centre

Law and Justice Volunteer Award

Sponsored by The New South Wales Bar Association

The Law and Justice Volunteer Award is presented to an individual, or a group of individuals, who, in a voluntary capacity, has demonstrated an outstanding commitment to improving access to justice, particularly for socially and economically disadvantaged people. This may have been demonstrated in a range of activities over an extended period, or in a single significant activity.

Mr Hans Allgayer, Gunnedah
Nominated by: Mayor Gae Swain, Gunnedah Council
Agnes Chong and Waleed Kadous, Australian Muslim Civil Rights Network (AMCRAN)
Nominated by: Vicki Sentas, UTS Community Law Centre
Cynthia Kardell, Whistleblowers Australia
Nominated by: Dr Jean Lennane
Val March , Coordinator, Police Witness Watch Program
Nominated by: W.R. Wheeler, Registrar, Wollongong Local Court
Warwick McCarthy, Kingston Swift Solicitors, Dubbo
Nominated by: Kate Wandmaker Western NSW Community Legal Centre
Harry Polymeris, Department of State and Regional Development
Nominated by: John D Angeles
Gilson Saunders
Nominated by: Greg Bond, Sydney Regional Aboriginal Corporation Legal Service
Kieren Traynor
Nominated by: Leanne Collier
The Volunteers from the National Children's and Youth Law Centre (NCYLC)
Nominated by: Louise Kelleher, NCYLC

The Law Society President's Award

Sponsored by the Law Society of New South Wales

The Law Society President's Award is presented to an individual solicitor for pro bono work through the Law Society Pro Bono scheme.

Sole/small firm practitioners:

Rosemary Benet, Rosemary Benet and Associates, Queanbeyan
Mr Stephen Corry, Coode & Corry, Penrith

Large firm relationships:

Ms Meghan Magnusson, Ebsworth & Ebsworth
Ms Clea Wiebenga, Minter Ellison

Pro Bono Partnership Award

Sponsored by the National Pro Bono Resource Centre

The Pro Bono Partnership Award is presented to private law firms, community organizations and/or community legal centres in NSW which have developed an outstanding pro bono legal assistance relationship, resulting in improved access to justice for disadvantaged people in the community.

Partnership between The Exodus Foundation and Blake Dawson Waldron
Partnership between the Inner West Women's Domestic Violence Court Assistance Scheme and VJ Roles, Solicitors
Partnership between Marrickville Legal Centre and Blake Dawson Waldron, Clayton Utz and Gilbert + Tobin
Partnership between Mission Australia and Freehills.
Partnership between the National Children's and Youth Law Centre (NCYLC) and Mallesons Stephen Jaques
Partnership between the Working Women's Centre and R.L. Whyburn & Associates

Combined Community Legal Centres Group Award

Sponsored by the Combined Community Legal Centres Group NSW Inc

The Combined Community Legal Centres Group Award is presented to an individual, or a group of individuals, who, in a voluntary capacity in a NSW community legal centre, have demonstrated outstanding commitment to improving access to justice in NSW, particularly for socially and economically disadvantaged people. This may have been demonstrated over an extended period, or in a single significant activity.

Philip Cotsicos, Matthews Folbigg
Nominated by: Maria Girdler, Macquarie Legal Centre
David Hansen, Inner City Legal Centre
Nominated by: Natalie Ross, Inner City Legal Centre
Rosemary Kayess, Disability Discrimination Legal Centre
Nominated by: Alastair McEwin, Disability Discrimination Legal Centre
Warwick McCarthy, Kingston Swift Solicitors, Dubbo
Nominated by: Kate Wandmaker, Western NSW Community Legal Centre
Mike Steinfeld, Kingsford Legal Centre
Nominated by: Anna Cody, Kingsford Legal Centre
The Temporary Protection Visa Legal Project volunteers
Nominated by: Lucy Greenacre, Refugee Advice and Casework Service
Glenn Walters
Nominated by: Tracy Leahy, Hawkesbury Nepean Community Legal Centre

LIAC Centre of Excellence Awards

Sponsored by the Legal Information Access Centre

Established in 1991 as a joint State Library and Law and Justice Foundation initiative, the Legal Information Access Centre is a state-wide service providing free access to legal information for the community. It is based in the State Library in Sydney and operates through the public library network across NSW. The Centre of Excellence Awards recognise innovative and creative projects which increase the awareness and use of the LIAC service within the community. The Award recipients each receive $1000 towards their library's legal information collection.

The nominees are:

Central West Libraries for its project, Carers, Communities and LIAC
Wagga Wagga City Library for its Law Week brochure on where to get legal and consumer information, advice and assistance in the Wagga Wagga area.