The 2018 Women Lawyers Award winners with guest speaker Tracey Spicer and judges
2022 ACT Women Lawyers Awards Gala dinner
The ACT Women Lawyers' Association is delighted to present the 2022 Women Lawyers Awards, with keynote speaker Louise Milligan.
Event Details
Location: National Museum of Australia
Date: 21 October 2022, 6:30pm arrival time
Dress code: Formal dress
Tickets are essential for this event and ticket sales have now closed.
Finalists: 2022 ACT women lawyers awards
The ACT Women Lawyers’ Association congratulates our 2022 finalists.
FIRM / ORGANISATION OF THE YEAR
Briggs Law
Griffin Legal
Parker Coles Curtis
Women’s Legal Centre ACT
WOMAN BARRISTER OF THE YEAR
Dr Sage Leslie, Blackburn Chambers
Katie McCann, Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ACT)
Katrina Musgrove, Key Chambers
WOMAN LAWYER OF THE YEAR
Tara Booth, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Sarah Milson-Mahy, Women’s Legal Centre ACT
Debra Parker, Parker Coles Curtis
Petrina Schiavi, University of Canberra
Liana Westcott, Sparke Helmore Lawyers
Heidi Yates, ACT Human Rights Commission
WOMAN LAWYER OF THE YEAR – ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER / CULTURALLY AND LINGUISTICALLY DIVERSE
Veena Bedekar, Maddocks
Tahlia Drumgold, Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ACT)
Kerstin Glomb, KJB Law
Divya Kaliyaperumal, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
WOMAN LAWYER OF THE YEAR – GOVERNMENT
Tara Booth, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Sonja Gasser, ACT Government Solicitor
Petrina Schiavi, University of Canberra
WOMAN LAWYER OF THE YEAR – COMMUNITY OR ACADEMIC
Tiffany Long, Leo Cussen Centre for Law
Sarah Milson-Mahy, Women’s Legal Centre ACT
Petrina Schiavi, University of Canberra
WOMAN LAWYER OF THE YEAR – EARLY CAREER
Molly Campbell, Sparke Helmore
Imogen Francis, King & Wood Mallesons
Lauren Hargrave, Clayton Utz
Divya Kaliyaperumal, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Eveline Kuang, King & Wood Mallesons
Sarah Pain, Clayton Utz
WOMAN LAWYER OF THE YEAR – PRIVATE
Georgia Briggs, Briggs Law
Jo Twible, KJB Law
Liana Westcott, Sparke Helmore
Jennifer Wyborn, Clayton Utz
Carina Zeccola, Griffin Legal
Our keynote speaker
Our keynote speaker for the 2022 ACT Women Lawyers Awards will be Louise Milligan.
Louise Milligan is an award winning investigative reporter for the ABC TV Four Corners program and the author of Witness and Cardinal, The Rise and Fall of George Pell. Her investigation into the allegations against Cardinal George Pell won her two Quill Awards from the Melbourne Press Club, including the Gold Quill for best story of the year, the highest honour in Victorian journalism, and the Australian Press Council Press Freedom Medal. Her book Cardinal, The Rise and Fall of George Pell also won the Walkley Book Award.
Her 2020 book, Witness, which examines the power imbalance of the legal system and documented her experiences as a witness in the committal proceeding of Cardinal George Pell, won the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards People’s Choice prize and the Davitt Award for best non-fiction crime book in 2021. It was also shortlisted for the Stella Prize.
Louise’s investigations into allegations of misconduct against politicians, including former Attorney-General Christian Porter, resulted in her Four Corners stories Inside the Canberra Bubble and Bursting the Canberra Bubble.
Louise’s impressive journalism career also includes covering the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Abuse, producing her Four Corners report about Saxon Mullins, I am that Girl, which led to widespread reforms of NSW consent laws, and reporting on the executions of Bali 9 members Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran.
Event Details
When: Friday, 21 October 2022, at 6:30pm
Where: National Museum of Australia
Dress code: Formal
Tickets:
o $110 for WLA ACT members
o $150 for non-members
o $1100 for a table of 10
Tickets can be purchased online, and ticket sales will go live on our website at 10:00am on Wednesday, 7 September 2022.
Our sponsors
The 2022 ACT Women Lawyers Awards would not be possible without the support of our sponsors.
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We also note that photos will be taken at the event for our social media and website. If you do not want your photo taken please just let the photographer know. If you have any questions, please email events@wlaact.org.au