Professor Stephen Colbran

School of Law, University of New England

Qualifications

BCom (Hons) (UQ), LLB (Hons) (UQ), LLM (Hons) (QUT), PhD (UQ), GradCertEd (Higher Ed) (QUT)

Contact

Phone: 61 2 6773 2910

Email: stephen.colbran@une.edu.au

Homepage

http://www.une.edu.au/law/staff/scolbra2.php

Research Interests

• Civil Procedure
• The Judiciary
• Information Technology Law, the use of information technology in teaching law
• Applying social science research methodologies to legal issues
• Judicial Performance Evaluation

Teaching Interests

• Legal Ethics
• Trust Accounting and Professional Responsibility
• Information Technology Law
• Electronic Commerce
• Evidence
• Civil Procedure

Publications

• Data Analysis: A guide for legal researchers (in progress)
• A Document Markup Tool’ Provisional Patent Application No. 2007904494
• ‘ReMarks TM” Assessment and Feedback Technology’. Provisional Patent Application No. 2005906787
• Civil Procedure: Commentary and Materials, 4th ed, Butterworths, 2009 with Sheryl Jackson (QUT), Peta Spender (ANU), Roger Douglas (LaTrobe), Greg Reinhardt (Uni Melb) [1307 pages] – in press. I also acted as general editor of this project
• ‘A comparative analysis of judicial performance evaluation programmes’ (Spring 2006) Journal of Commonwealth Law and Legal Education [in press]
• Civil Procedure: Commentary and Materials, 3rd ed, Butterworths, 2005 with Sheryl Jackson (QUT), Peta Spender (ANU), Roger Douglas (LaTrobe), Greg Reinhardt (Uni Melb) [1200 pages] – in press. I also acted as general editor of this project
• ‘Collaborative Supervision of legal Doctoral Theses Through E-Learning’ (2004) 1 University of New England Law Journal 1
• 'Critique of “Open justice” as a form of Judicial Accountability’ (2003) 6(1) Legal Ethics 55 [19 pages]
• ‘Legal liability as a criterion for judicial performance evaluation’ (2003) 7 (1) The Newcastle Law Review 15–34 [20 pages]
• 'Independence and integrity as a criterion for judicial performance evaluation’ (2003) 5 University of Notre Dame Law Review 15–36 [22 pages]
• Family Court Rules 2004 Annotated Exposure Draft with Justice Barblett AO (Rtd) and Lesleigh Mayes (Registrar), Family Court Publication, December 2002 [324 pages]
• Civil Procedure: Commentary and Materials, 2nd ed, Butterworths, 2002 with Sheryl Jackson (QUT), Peta Spender (ANU), Roger Douglas (LaTrobe), Greg Reinhardt (Uni Melb) [1200 pages]. I also acted as general editor of this project. This text is used in 14 Australian universities as the standard Australian teaching tool in civil litigation
• 'Management skills as a criterion for judicial performance evaluation’ (2002) University of Western Sydney Law Review 191 [18 pages]
• 'Temperament as a criterion for judicial performance evaluation’ (2002) 21(1) University of Tasmania Law Review 62 [17 pages]
• ‘Settlement skills as an aspect of judicial performance evaluation’ (2002) 11 Journal of Judicial Administration, In press [26 pages]
• Accountability without compliance – The dilemma of judicial performance evaluation’ (2002) 76 Australian Law Journal, 235–249 [15 pages]
• ‘Diligence as a criterion for judicial performance evaluation’ about to be sent to the (2002) Griffith Law Review 198 [23 pages]
• 'Judicial performance evaluation, promotion and salary packaging’ (2002) 5 The Judicial Review 48–70 [22 pages]
• ‘An overview of the Uniform Civil Procedure Rules’ (1999) 20 The Queensland Lawyer 85 [19 pages]
• Civil Procedure: Commentary and Materials, Butterworths, 1999 with Sheryl Jackson, Peta Spender (ANU), Roger Douglas (LaTrobe), Greg Reinhardt (Uni Melb) [1080 pages]. I also acted as general editor of this project
• ‘Multimedia teaching in Australian Law Schools’ (1996) Journal of Law and Information Science [10 pages]
• Caveats, Australia: Financial Times Press, 1996 with Sheryl Jackson [744 pages]
• 'The Service and Execution of Process Act 1992’ (1995) 15(4) Queensland Lawyer 130 [5 Pages]
• Colbran S, Security for Costs, Australia: Longman Professional, 1993 [325 pages]
• ‘Security for Costs against Corporations - Section 1335 of the Corporations Law’ (1993) Company and Securities Law Journal 85 [32 pages]
• 'The Origin of Security for Costs’ (1993) 14 The Queensland Lawyer 44 [6 pages]
• ‘An application for Security for Costs’ (1993) 10 Australian Bar Review 11 [31 pages]
• ‘Security for costs of arbitration proceedings’ (1993) Arbitration International 85 [10 Pages]
• ‘Residence out of the jurisdiction and orders for security for costs’ (1992) 15 New Zealand Universities Law Review 178 [27 pages]
• 'Security for costs from nominal plaintiffs’ (1992) Civil Justice Quarterly 384 [18 pages]
• ‘A proposal for reform of the Queensland Supreme Court Rules concerning Security for Costs’ (1992) Queensland Law Society Journal 456 [25 pages]
• 'Next Friends, lunacy and the equitable rules of discovery’ (1989) Australian Bar Review 68 [10 pages]
• ‘Security for costs: A fettered discretion’ (1989) Australian Bar Review 102 [8 pages]
• ‘A series of offences of a similar nature’ (1988) Australian Bar Review 178 [16 pages]
• Project Neleus: Multimedia Computer Based Education for Law Schools in the 1990s’ (With Ian Wilson) (1993) 2 Journal of Law and Information Science 19 [5 pages]
• Review of Butterworths Legal Dictionary (1997) Australian Bar Review
• ‘Queensland Magistrates’ Judicial Development Project’, 2nd Annual AIJA Magistrates’ Conference, 13–14 September 2002
• ‘The limits of judicial accountability: the role of judicial performance evaluation’ accepted for presentation at the Biennial IIPE Conference, 4-7 October 2002, Brisbane [refereed]
• ‘Evaluating Australian Judicial performance’ presented at the Canadian Evaluation Society’s Conference, 5–8th May 2002, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada [20 pages - refereed]
• ‘Professional Development – learning from others’ presented at the Queensland Magistrates’ Court Conference, 18 March 2002 [18 pages]
• ‘Deeper learning through formative assessment of multimedia courseware’, Evaluations and Assessments Conference 2002, 14th November 2002
• ‘A Flashlight Assessment of Multimedia Courseware Designed to Improve Student-Centred Learning in Professional Responsibility for Lawyers’, Pearl Session: Effective Teaching and Learning Conference, 13th November 2002
• Queensland PhD Colloquium 1999 [45 pages]
• 'Introduction to legislative analysis’, Queensland Society of librarians 1996 [8 pages]
• ‘A proposal for reform of the rules governing security for costs’, 1992, ALTA Conference: Australian Law Teachers Association. Conference (QUT Law School) Interest Group address [15 pages]
• ‘New Commencement and Service procedures’, Litigation Update the new Queensland Uniform Civil Procedure Rules Conference, Park Royal Hotel, 5 November 1997
• 'Developing interactive multimedia lessons’ Business Educators Association 19th Annual Conference, 26 July 1997
• ‘Writs of Non-Party Discovery’, Litigation Update: The New Pleading and Summary Judgment Rules plus an update on Practice Direction No 15 of 1996, and The Choice of Law (Limitation Periods) Act 1996’ Conference, Park Royal Hotel, 8 October 199
• Development and presentation of a case study, ‘Flexibility through independence’ in Flexible Modes of Delivery, technology and Academics’ Practices Symposium, Griffith University, 10 March 1996
• ‘Adducing evidence under the Commonwealth Evidence Act 1995’ Litigation Update: The New Evidence Act No 2 of 1995 (Cth)’, Conference, Park Royal Hotel, 4 May 1995
• ‘Multimedia and courseware development’ Law School staff seminar, Bond University 4 October 1995
• ‘School, Multimedia and the law’ Business Educators Association 17th International Conference QUT 27 September 1995 with Tony Conaghan (Partner Phillips Fox Solicitors)
• ‘An introduction to Order 35’ Litigation Update: The New Supreme Court Rules on Discovery, Interrogatories and Inspection’, Conference, Park Royal Hotel, 29 March 1994
• Bileta Conference. British and Irish Legal Education Technology Association: 8th Annual Conference (Liverpool John Moors University) Keynote address: “Project Neleus : Multimedia CBE for Law Schools” in the 1990s

Memberships

• AUQA Auditor
• Former executive member Council of Australian Law Deans (CALD)
• Australian Institute of Judicial Administration

Consultancies

• 2010 Court and Judicial Performance Evaluation’, Ministry of Justice, Turkey [45 pages]
• 2003 Migration Institute of Australia, “Education and Training Options for the Migration Advice Industry” [30 pages]
• Family Court of Australia Rules Working Party – member of a three person committee completely redrafting the Family Court Rules of Court
• 1998 Chairman of a Queensland State Government Committee, which developed Uniform Civil Procedure Court forms
• 1998 Electronic Lodgement Rules submitted to Department of Justice Qld

Grants

• 2010 ALTC Priority Grant – ReMarks Stage 3 $275,000
• 2009 ALTC Priority Grant - ReMarks Stage 2 $275,000
• 2007 Carrick Priority Grant - ReMarks Stage 1 $250,000
• 2006 LearningScape development grant (UNE) $50, 000
• 2006 A qualitative analysis of the impact of podcasting on law student study patterns (UNE) $2,801
• 2006 Carrick Leadership for Excellence in Learning and Teaching Program – Australian Law Postgraduate Network www.alpn.edu.au $192,216
• 2004/5 Migration Institute of Australia $7,500
• 2004 UNE Teaching and Learning Centre On-line LLM Project $40, 000
• 2001 Australian Institute of Judicial Administration $5,000
• 2000 UQ PhD grant $2,000
• 1999 Australian Law Council Foundation $6,000
• 1997 Department of Justice (Queensland) for a conference $5,000
• 1997 Corrs Chambers Westgarth for a conference $1,000
• 1996 Apill Insurance for a computer program $500