NSW Legal Services Commissioner to visit Lismore

The NSW Legal Services Commissioner Steve Mark will be attending Southern Cross University Lismore campus tomorrow to present a public seminar entitled ‘Ethics and Professional Responsibility’.

The seminar will cover a range of issues including: the ethical duties of legal practitioners; professionalism; ethics versus profit and COAG – the new regulatory regime.

Mr Mark, who will also deliver a lecture to an estimated 80 final year law students as part of the School of Law and Justice’s workshop program, explains the role of the Office of the Legal Services Commissioner is to ensure that legal practitioners abide by their ethical and other professional obligations when providing services to the public.

“The OLSC can take disciplinary action against legal practitioners and help resolve problems between practitioners and other members of the community,” Mr Mark said.

Mr Mark was the president of the NSW Anti-Discrimination Board from 1988 to 1994. He has practised law in Australia and the United Kingdom, specialising in criminal, immigration and human rights law. He was appointed as the first Legal Services Commissioner in 1994 when the OLSC commenced operation and has remained in the position since then.

The seminar will be held at the Southern Cross University Lismore campus in U Block, level 2, lecture theatre 31 on Thursday, July 22. Those attending are invited to arrive at 5pm for light refreshments ahead of a 5.30pm start.

Local legal practitioners or interested members of the public who would like to attend the seminar can RSVP to anita.dow@scu.edu.au or call Anita Dow on 02 66203375 for further information.

Photo: NSW Legal Services Commissioner Steve Mark is visiting Lismore.