Terrorism Offences: The Current Issues
Gain a deep analysis and detailed guidance into how to approach and navigate the latest and most important legal issues related to terrorism offences. Take a deep dive into discontinuance, technology, radicalisation, and repatriation. Master the intricacies of a brief of evidence against a client. Examine sentencing issues in terrorism offences and the Galea case. Analyse the latest in counter terrorism financing (CTF). WEB216N06
Description
Attend and earn 4 CPD units in Substantive Law
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
Chair: Astrid Haban-Beer, Barrister, Dever’s List
9.00am to 10.00am Contemporary Issues in Terrorism: The Case for Discontinuance
- Restricting indictments (extremism and connected crimes)
- Technology and radicalisation
- Complicity and inferences
- Gender, race and bias
- Child rights
- Protecting protest
- Repatriating citizens: the duty to protect and investigate
- Lessons from funding and wildlife trade
- Disclosure from war crimes investigations
Presented by Felicity Gerry KC, Crockett Chambers
10.00am to 11.00am Understanding the Brief of Evidence Against your Client
- Understanding violent extremist organisations
- The importance of assessment
- Ideology
- Methodology
- Purpose
- Endstate
- Assessment and intervention of incarcerated terrorists
Presented by Shane Healey, Independent Consultant
11.00am to 11.15am Break
11.15am to 12.15pm Sentencing of Terrorists: Examination and Analysis of the Galea Case
- Trial due process and guarantees
- Protection of human rights standards
- Inherent complexities and transnational character
Presented by Peta Lowe, Principal Consultant, Phronesis Consulting and Training; former Director of Countering Violent Extremism, Juvenile Justice NSW
12.15pm to 1.15pm Counter Terrorism Financing (CTF): The Importance of the Fight against Terrorist Financing
- The importance of finance for terrorism
- Financing the military wing and the civil wing
- Terrorist financing methods and techniques
- The case of Australia
Presented by Dr Doron Goldbarsht, Senior Lecturer, Macquarie Law School, Director of PACE
Presenters
Felicity Gerry KC
Felicity Gerry KC, admitted in Victoria and England & Wales and in the ICC and the KSC in the Hague. She defended the Melbourne Christmas Day Bomb plot, the first completed terrorist act in Australia and the first non-ISIS terrorism prosecution in Australia and leads the intervention in the Shamima Begum appeal in the UK. She was Lawyers Weekly Australian Barrister of the Year 2020 and Solicitors Journal Legal Personality of the Year 2016 and has been recognised in the Legal 500 for 2020 as a Leading Individual lawyers. In Doyle’s Guide 2020 she is also a ‘Recommended Silk’.
Peta Lowe
Peta Lowe is the Principal Consultant with Phronesis Consulting and Training providing advice, consultancy and training to organizations in violent extremism and terrorism and providing assessments of violent extremists and those charged or convicted of terrorism related offences at all stages of the legal process. She is the former Director, Countering Violent Extremism for Juvenile Justice in the NSW Department of Justice. Peta has over 13 years experience working with young people who display violent and anti-social offending behaviours in both custodial and community contexts. She has worked with individuals, families and communities to address offending behaviours and criminogenic risks.
Dr Doron Goldbarsht
Dr Doron Goldbarsht, LLB LLM (HUJI) PHD (UNSW), is a Senior Lecturer in Macquarie Law School and Qualified solicitor Israel and Australia. Dr Goldbarsht established himself as an authority on anti-money laundering and counter terrorist financing (AML/CTF) regulations, with expertise in the related fields of compliance and financial innovation. Dr Goldbarsht’s recent book - Global counter-terrorist financing and soft law: multi-layered approaches (Edward Elgar) (2020), journal and chapter publications focus on different international AML/CTF standards and the mechanisms for their effective implementation and compliance at the national level.
Astrid Haban-Beer
Astrid has a practice incorporating criminal law and public law. Her practice includes trials, royal commissions, coronial inquests, and regulatory and enforcement matters. Astrid has particular experience in Commonwealth matters, and matters involving the intersection of criminal and civil law. Prior to coming to the Bar in 2013, Astrid was a senior solicitor at the Australian Government Solicitor practising in customs, competition and consumer law matters. Astrid is currently involved in matters across all jurisdictions, in civil and criminal matters, covering areas of: white collar crime, mental impairment, disability law, regulatory matters, terrorism and national security, fraud offences, sexual offences and internet and cyber offences.
Odette Gourley
Odette practices across the full range of IP including trade marks, patents, copyright, registered designs and related areas including the Competition and Consumer Act and other regulation. She has acted in notable cases that have changed the law in IP. In trade marks, she acted for Gallo in the High Court, now the leading authority on the nature of trade mark use, and for Winnebago. The Winnebago case established the principle of user pays damages for trade mark infringement under Australian law which are recoverable even where damages on a lost sales basis are not available nor an account of profits.