David Hodson on International Family Law: Napoleon Bonaparte and the Queensland Gold Coast

I had the considerable privilege of being invited this summer by the Queensland Law Society to be the international keynote speaker at their residential annual family law conference in mid-August which took place on the Gold Coast south of Brisbane. I was introduced by Chief Justice Diane Bryant the equivalent of our President of the Family Division and took as the title of my talk: "Napoleon Bonaparte and family law; Invade Russia then onto the Gold Coast". It was the morning after the conference dinner the night before and a certain lightness was therefore required: hence my PA Catherine Evans being able to produce a picture of Napoleon arriving on the Gold Coast on a surfboard based on the famous Adolph Northen painting of the retreat from Russia.

But the crucial element...

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