Come explore how AI is shaking up the legal world and what it means for your practice.

Technological innovations inevitably outstrip the development of the law and the way lawyers and Judges approach the cases before them. The explosion in the use of generative artificial intelligence represents the latest challenge which the legal profession must face. Justice Collier of the Federal Court will consider some of the difficulties Judges face in grappling with AI and provide recommendations for lawyers and practitioners who front the Courts. The presentation will be followed by a panel discussion on the subject featuring perspectives from judicial officers, practitioners, and academics.

Date:        Thursday, 17 September 2026
Where:     Supreme Court of the Northern Territory in a Courtroom to be advised
Time:        5:30 pm ACST

This free CPD is offered in-person and online however seating is limited and bookings are essential.  To register your attendance for this event click here.

Panellists:

Justice Collier, Federal Court of Australia

Justice Collier was appointed a Judge of the Federal Court of Australia in February 2006 and a Judge of the Supreme and National Courts of Papua New Guinea in September 2011. Her Honour has also been a judicial Deputy President of the Administrative Review Tribunal, formerly the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, since November 2015 and an additional Judge of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory since May 2016. From late 2021 to early 2022 her Honour served as the acting President of the former Administrative Appeals Tribunal, and from 2007 to 2010 her Honour served as a part-time Commissioner of the Australian Law Reform Commission. In October 2025 Justice Collier was also appointed a member of the governing Council of Queensland University of Technology.

Justice Huntingford, Supreme Court of the Northern Territory

Meredith Day Huntingford was appointed as a Judge of the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory in June 2024, having been an Acting Judge since May 2023. Justice Huntingford was born and raised in South Australia and attended the University of Adelaide where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws in 1986. She also holds a Master of Laws from the University of Melbourne. After relocating to Darwin in 1987, Justice Huntingford worked in private practice, including as a partner at local firm Hunt & Hunt, before commencing as a law lecturer at Charles Darwin University in 2001. She was a senior lawyer, and later Director of Litigation, at the Solicitor for the Northern Territory from 2005 and, from 2014 to 2019, Deputy CEO of the Department of the Attorney-General and Justice. Justice Huntingford was appointed as a Local Court judge in 2019 and from 2020 to 2022 was based in Alice Springs.

Dr Cameron Ford OAM SC, President of the Northern Territory Bar Association

Cameron is a barrister at William Forster Chambers practising in general civil law. He moves between Darwin and Singapore where he acts in arbitrations as counsel and as arbitrator.

Mr Richard Henschke, Vice-President of the Law Society Northern Territory

Mr Richard Henschke was admitted as a Legal Practitioner of the Supreme Court of South Australia in 1979 and as a Legal Practitioner of the Supreme Court the Northern Territory of Australia in 1981. He has been a director of Halfpennys Lawyers since 1985, a member of the Legal Practitioners Admission Board since 2017, and a Council Member of the Law Society Northern Territory since 2018. Mr Henschke was the President of the Law Society NT in 2023, 2024 and 2025, and currently serves as the Vice President of the Law Society NT.

Dr Jim McMillan, Treasurer of the Law Society Northern Territory

Dr Jim McMillan is a lecturer at CDU Law School with teaching experience spanning a broad range of subjects, including Evidence, Civil Procedure, and Professional Responsibility. He has been a legal practitioner since 1985 and continues to practice as a barrister in Darwin, specialising mainly in tax advice work. He is the current Treasurer of the NT Law Society. He is also actively engaged in the current debate concerning the future of legal education in Australia and is a member of the Law Council Australia working group on legal education.

Panel Facilitator: 

Professor Alan Berman, Dean of Law of the Charles Darwin University

Dr Alan Berman is a Professor of Law at Charles Darwin University. He has served as Dean of Law at CDU for over 8 years. He has practised as an attorney for 6 years in California and has taught in Australia, New Zealand and the United States. He has researched and published in the areas of human rights, AI in tertiary education and anti-discrimination. He previously worked in the Clinton administration and was one of a handful of academics to participate in the first White House Conference on Hate Crimes