High Court Registry closure

The High Court Registry will be closed from 4:00pm AEDT on Wednesday, 24 December 2025 and will re-open at 9:00am on Friday, 2 January 2026.

Any party seeking to file a document due to be filed between 25 December 2025 and 1 January 2026 has an automatic extension of time under the High Court Rules 2004 (Rule 4.01.5) until 4:00pm on Friday, 2 January 2026 to file the document. Any documents lodged between 25 December 2025 and 1 January 2026 will be reviewed on 2 January 2026.

All inquiries for the High Court will be considered when the Registry re-opens on Friday, 2 January 2026. If a matter is of extreme urgency, you may telephone 1800 570 566, select Option 1 and leave a voicemail. In addition, provide details by email to: registry@hcourt.gov.au.

Speeches/Articles by Justice The Hon Justice Robert Beech-Jones

9 Speeches/Articles by The Hon Justice Robert Beech-Jones

2025

  • ‘Dicey's Spirit of the Game: The Ashes, Moral Victories and the Constitution of the United Kingdom’ (Speech, Society Breakfast, Australian Chapter of the Anglo-Australasian Lawyers Society Inc, Royal Automobile Club, Sydney, 17 December 2025)

    Beech-Jones(2025)Anglo-AustralasianLawyersSociety.pdf (307.16 KB)

  • ‘Franklin Dam: Then and Now’ (Speech, 2025 Litigation Convention, Law Society of Tasmania, St Helens, Tasmania, 8 November 2025)

    Beech-Jones(2025)LawSocTasmania.pdf (298.06 KB)

  • ‘Launch of “Law Reports of the Australian War Crimes Trials 1945-1951: Volume I: Reports of the Trials: Morotai, Wewak, Labuan and Darwin” (Speech, Australian War Memorial, 11 September 2025)

    Beech-Jones(2025)WarMemorial.pdf (197.1 KB)

  • 'Sanctioning Judges: Australian Domestic Law and the International Criminal Court' (Speech, Sir Frank Kitto Lecture, 21 August 2025)

    Beech-Jones(2025)SirFranksKittoLecture_0.pdf (446.49 KB)
  • ‘Judgment Writing: Get Smart’ (Speech, Judicial College of Victoria program: The Art of Judgment Writing, 20 February 2025)
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2024

  • ‘The Prosecutor’s Duty and the Prosecutor’s Conscience’ (Speech, Australian Association of Crown Prosecutors Conference, Darwin, 8 August 2024)
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  • ‘Lawyers and Dictators: Ten Lawyers, and Counting’ (John William Perry AO QC Oration, Hellenic Australian Lawyers Association, Adelaide, 25 October 2024)
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  • ‘Federalism, the Courts and Class Actions’ (Speech, Corporate Conduct + Class Actions Symposium, 2 May 2024).
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  • ‘Seven Random Points About Judging’ (Speech, National Judicial College of Australia Orientation Program, Brisbane, 17 March 2024).
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