On 5th April, our WALTA President, Professor Augusto Zimmermann, received Annelies Moens and her husband John Selby at Sheridan Institute of Higher Education. Annelies then had the opportunity to visit the law library named after her father, the Professor Gabriël A. Moens Law Library.
Annelies is the Managing Director of Privcore Pty Ltd, a company that provides advice to state and non-state actors on privacy issues. and makes privacy core business. Among other qualifications, Annelies obtained an Honours degree in law from the University of Queensland, and a Master of Business Administration degree from the Vlerick Business School in Belgium.
The law library at Sheridan was opened on 4th July last year with the ceremonial opening of the Professor Gabriël A. Moens Law Library being held on 4th April, with more than 140 people attended the historic event – including leading members of the legal profession and political office in Western Australia.
The distinguished speakers at the ceremonial opening were Leigh Warnick SC (Senior Counsel, Francis Burt Chambers), Lorraine Finlay (Commissioner, Australian Human Rights Commission), Professor Philip Evans (Former Law Dean, Murdoch University), Emeritus Professor Gabriël A. Moens AM, and Professor Augusto Zimmermann (Head of Law, Sheridan Institute of Higher Education).
On that special occasion The Right Honourable the Lord Mayor Basil Zempilas (The City of Perth) unveiled the plaque that commemorates the official opening of Professor Gabriël A. Moens Law Library.