This is the fourth in the series which the Faculty of Law of the Australian National University has organised around the theme “Australian Lawyers and Social Change”. At the outset, I should congratulate the Faculty and especially Professor Pearce for the persistence with the series. Anything done to confront lawyers in Australia with the consequences and implications of a time of rapid social change is to be applauded. I speak for all participants in thanking the lead speakers and commentators. Theirs have been valuable and timely contributions. Especially, I would wish to thank Professor Glen Robinson (University of Virginia, United States) and Mr Stephen Skelly QC (Department of Justice, Ottawa, Canada) for enlivening the proceedings with insights from the two great English-speaking Federations, with whose legal systems we have so much in common.