Name: Sir Frank Kitto Lecture 2025
Start: 2025-08-21T07:30:00+10:00
Location: University of New England, Armidale, NSW, Australia, New South Wales 2351

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗶𝗿 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗸 𝗞𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗼 𝗟𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱:
𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗲: 21 August
𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲: 5:30pm
𝗟𝗼𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: UNE Armidale Campus, JP Belshaw (LT1), EBL Building
𝗢𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲: Zoom webinar (link and registration TBA)
"𝗔𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗗𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗟𝗮𝘄 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗿𝗶𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘁"
Presented by The Honourable Justice Robert Thomas Beech-Jones, the lecture will cover the history of Australia’s entry into the Rome Statute which established the International Criminal Court. His Honour will outline the interrelationship between domestic statute law and the Rome Statute with particular reference to the protections afforded to the ICC by domestic law and the possible implications for executive power and Australian citizens generally.
About the presenter.
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗛𝗼𝗻𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗝𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗥𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘁 𝗧𝗵𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘀 𝗕𝗲𝗲𝗰𝗵-𝗝𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘀 was educated in Tasmania. He attended the Australian National University and graduated with a Bachelor of Science and a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) in 1988. He was admitted as a solicitor in that year and as a barrister in 1992. He was appointed Senior Counsel in 2006.
As a barrister he practised in the areas of Administrative Law, Commercial Law and regulatory enforcement.
He was engaged as one of the counsel assisting the Royal Commission into the collapse of the insurance company HIH. He also appeared for the Australian Securities and Investments Commission in the proceedings it brought against the Directors and Officers of the James Hardie group of companies arising out of its corporate restructures between 2001 and 2003.
In 2012 he was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales sitting in the Common Law Division.
From 2016 to 2018 he was President of the Judicial Conference of Australia.
On 31 August 2021 he was appointed Chief Judge of the Common Law Division and a Judge of Appeal.
On 6 November 2023 he was sworn in as a Justice of the High Court of Australia.