Criminal Law: CPD Core Competency Areas
This intensive, in-depth program offers the perfect opportunity to update your knowledge and sharpen your skill as a criminal lawyer while gaining your CPD core competency points in focused sessions delivered by practitioners that understand the issues. Explore how to manage a heavy caseload; obtain a barrister’s view on best practice tips on preparing a brief and instructing counsel in court; master your client management skills, and deal with the ethical issues arising in criminal law. 223W05
Description
Attend and earn 4 CPD points including:
1 point in Competency Area 1: Practice Management
2 points in Competency Area 2: Professional Skills
1 point in Competency Area 3: Ethics & Professional Responsibility
This program is based on WA legislation
Chair: Anthony Elliott, Barrister, Francis Burt Chambers
Competency Area 1: Practice Management
9.00am to 10.00am Survival Guide for Managing a Heavy Caseload
- Developing a running matter list
- Organisation and management of correspondence with clients
- Time allocation and diarising workload
- Setting boundaries with clients about correspondence and the lawyer/client relationship
- Tips for managing multiple matters in court on the same day
- Collegiality and support between practitioners
Presented by Lindsay Allan-McConchie, Barrister, Francis Burt Chambers
Competency Area 2: Professional Skills
10.00am to 11.00am Checklist on Preparing Your Brief to Counsel and Instructing Counsel in Court
- Overview of the best practice tips and tricks for preparation of a brief to counsel, including:
- The index: ensuring it is clear, concise and cross-referenced to sections/page numbers
- The essentials: What topics should be covered in your brief?
- The extras: What would make your brief more effective?
- E-briefs: tips for organising in a way that’s easy for counsel to navigate
- Best practice tips for instructing counsel in court
Presented by James Scovell, Barrister, Francis Burt Chambers
11.00am to 11.15am Morning Tea
Competency Area 2: Professional Skills
11.15am to 12.15pm Mastering Your Client Management Skills
- Difficult clients
- Capacity
- Navigating unethical or questionable requests from clients
- Financial pitfalls in client management
Presented by Tina Forde, Barrister, Francis Burt Chambers
Competency Area 3: Ethics & Professional Responsibility
12.15pm to 1.15pm Ethics and Criminal Law: Protecting Yourself
Dealing with the ethical traps for criminal defence lawyers including:
- The hidden traps in the new technological age
- Strategies to use to protect yourself from risk
Presented by Jeremy Scudds, Barrister & Solicitor, Porter Scudds
Presenters
Anthony Elliott
Anthony Elliott is a barrister at Francis Burt Chambers. He has over twenty years' experience as a lawyer, principally as a Crown Prosecutor. He began his career in private practice and later joined the Crown leading to positions within the Offices of the Director of Public Prosecutions in Western Australia, the Northern Territory and the Fiji Islands. He is also a Legal Officer with the Royal Australian Air Force Special Reserves. He claims to enjoy dealing with expert witnesses both in chief and in cross examination. He is not sure whether they enjoy dealing with him as much as he does with them.
Lindsay Allan-McConchie
Lindsay Allan-McConchie was elected to the Bar in 2020 and joined Chambers under the pupillage program. Under the mentorship of some of the State’s most accomplished senior barristers at Chambers, Lindsay specialises in criminal practice and personal injuries.
Lindsay commenced her legal career under the supervision and guidance of two of Darwin’s most prominent Queens Counsellors, as well as a former Magistrate of the Northern Territory. Having assisted in one of the Territory’s most prominent murder trials, DPP v Deacon, and through its appeal, as well as other major jury trials in the Territory, Lindsay offers well established problem solving, research and analytical skills.
James Scovell
James Scovell's proven expertise and litigation skills are used in conjunction with a pragmatic commercial approach to achieve his instructor's and client's desired outcomes and business needs. James has acted for a broad range of clients, including large ASX listed entities, insolvency practitioners and national lending institutions, in relation to litigation matters in all jurisdictions. In the often challenging role of recovering funds for creditors (including lenders), James' litigation skills are exemplary, while his highly proficient negotiation skills readily come to play when seeking to resolve matters commercially and without the need for litigation.
Tina Forde
Starting her career as a generalist, Tina has experience in a vast array of practice areas, appearing in most Courts and Tribunals in WA and nationally. Quickly discovering a passion for advocacy, Tina first joined the bar in 2011 and has returned in 2021, following running her own front and back end construction practice supported by a team of like-minded staff.
Known for her knowledge and experience in the construction industry and her attention to detail, Tina has represented a range of medium to large companies in construction related disputes. The junior lawyers Tina has mentored value this, as well as her authenticity.
Jeremy Scudds
Jeremy Scudds is a senior barrister and solicitor and social worker, with extensive experience in the area of criminal law. He has also previously worked in the areas of personal injury law and commercial litigation. He worked in government and private practice prior to setting up practice as a sole practitioner. He has an excellent knowledge and understanding of needs of the firm's clients. Jeremy was admitted to practice as a Barrister and Solicitor in the Supreme Court of Western Australia and High Court of Australia in 1984. By way of connection with the community, Mr. Scudds has worked as a social worker and union official.
Robert Nash
Robert Nash has been admitted to legal practice since 1987. He has practiced as an independent barrister for over 20 years at Francis Burt Chambers, is an accredited mediator, and is a member of STEP. In recent years his practice at the Bar has been primarily providing advice and acting as counsel in the areas of succession, estate administration, trusts, real property, and military discipline law. He is the non-executive chairman of an ASX listed mining company. Previously he held the position of Head of Panel of the WA Navy Legal Panel and was the chairman of the Sino-Australian Bauxite Alumina Joint Venture.
Venue
Parmelia Hilton
Level 1, Meeting Room, 14 Mill Street
Perth 6000
WA
Australia
Directions
Nearby Public Transport:
Train Stations - The Esplanade Station
Bus Interchange - St Georges Terrace Cloisters Green
Parking information
Parmilia Hilton - Valet Parking only - Click here to view rates.
Convention Centre - 100 metres from Parmelia Hilton. Click here to view rates.