Prof Stephen Colbran

Books [Sole author]

• Security for Costs, Australia: Longman Professional, 1993 [325 pages]

Books [Joint author]

• Civil Procedure: Commentary and Materials, 3^rd 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.
• 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, 2^nd 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.
• 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.
• Caveats, Australia: Financial Times Press, 1996 with Sheryl Jackson [744 pages]

Books in progress

• Data Analysis: A guide for legal researchers.

Articles [Sole author]

• ‘A comparative analysis of judicial performance evaluation programmes’ (Spring 2006) Journal of Commonwealth Law and Legal Education [in press]
• ‘Collaborative Supervision of legal Doctoral Theses Through E-Learning’ (2004) 1 University of New England Law Journal 1
• ‘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]
• ‘Critique of “Open justice” as a form of Judicial Accountability’ (2003) 6(1) Legal Ethics 55 [19 pages]
• ‘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]
• ‘Multimedia teaching in Australian Law Schools’ (1996) Journal of Law and Information Science [10 pages]
• ‘The Service and Execution of Process Act 1992’ (1995) 15(4) Queensland Lawyer 130 [5 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] 

Articles [Joint author]

• ‘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]

Articles [Sole author recently sent to journals, awaiting review]

• ‘Australian Law Postgraduate Network (ALPN)’ sent to QUT Law Journal.
• ‘A comparative analysis of judicial performance evaluation’ sent to Journal of Law and Legal Education.

Book reviews

• Review of Butterworths Legal Dictionary (1997) Australian Bar Review.

Conference papers

• ‘Queensland Magistrates’ Judicial Development Project’, 2^nd 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, 5–8^th 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]
• ‘Towards an Australian model of Judicial Performance Evaluation’, University of
• ‘Deeper learning through formative assessment of multimedia courseware’, Evaluations and Assessments Conference 2002, 14^th 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, 13^th 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 19^th 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 1996.
• 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 17^th 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: 8^th Annual Conference (Liverpool John Moors University) Keynote address: “Project Neleus : Multimedia CBE for Law Schools” in the 1990s

Commissioned research/submissions

• Family Court of Australia 2004 Rules Working Party – member of a three person committee completely redrafting the Family Court Rules of Court
• Migration Institute of Australia, Options paper entitled ‘Education and Training Options for the Migration Advice Industry’ 2003
• Queensland Magistrates Judicial Development Project: A proposal for a pilot judicial performance evaluation project in Queensland 10 March 2002.
• South Australian Judicial Development Project: A proposal for a pilot project in South Australia seminar presented to Supreme and District Court Judges 12 December 2001.
• Australian Law Reform Commission Report 89, Managing Justice – 2 Education, Training and accountability – submission 309 cited therein
• Chairman of a Queensland State Government Committee, which developed Uniform Civil Procedure Court forms, 1998.
• Electronic lodgement rules submitted to Department of Justice, 1998
• Security for cost rules submitted to Department of Justice - incorporated in the Uniform Civil Procedure Rules, 1997