Criminal Law Symposium
A full-day criminal law program focused on the latest developments impacting your criminal matters. Gain valuable insights and strategies from an expert panel including a District Court Judge and Deputy Chief Magistrate. Explore the new Bail Act amendments, Commonwealth offenders and sentencing, a road map for pre-trial procedures, and sworn evidence and recent decisions by the Criminal Court of Appeal. In addition, delve into criminal complicity, expert evidence, and strip searches and the law. 2211N26
Description
Attend and earn 7 CPD units including:
5.5 units in Substantive Law
1.5 units in Professional Skills
This program is based on NSW legislation
Session 1
Roundup of Essential Criminal Law Updates, Evidence and Defences
Chair: Lindsay Stankovic, Lawyer, Hugo Law Group
9.00am to 9.05am Opening Comments by the Chair
9.05am to 9.50am View From the Bench
Receive practical and useful insights from the perspective of a Local Court Magistrate.
Presented by Her Hon Deputy Chief Magistrate Freund, Local Court of New South Wales
9.50am to 10.35am Strip Searches and Legal Rights: Problem Areas and Proposed Reform
- Overview of the law that governs strip search police powers in NSW
- The current problems with strip search law and practice in NSW
- Summary of areas for law reform
Presented by Samantha Lee, Senior Solicitor, Police Accountability Practice, Redfern Legal Centre
10.35am to 10.50am Morning Tea
Professional Skills
10.50am to 11.35am A Roadmap for Pre-Trial Procedures: Strategic Approaches
- Service of full brief & proposed indictment
- Arranging the indictment & fixed date for trial
- Disclosures & preparing schedule of objections
- Tendency notice required?
- Obtaining witness list, videos and footage plus time stamps and transcripts
- Arranging expert evidence & serving the Prosecution
- No Bill application?
- Establishing & preparing agreed facts
- Seeking crown case statement and notice of prosecution case
Presented by Sam Macedone, Principal, Macedone Law
EVIDENCE AND DEFENCES
Professional Skills
11.35am to 12.20pm THE MEDICAL PERSPECTIVE: Mental Illness and the Criminal System
- Forensic Psychiatrists: useful or useless?
- Reports for court
- Psychiatrist or psychologist?
Presented by Dr Leon Turnbull, Forensic Psychiatrist
12.20pm to 1.05pm Understanding Criminal Complicity and Potential Defences
- Joint criminal enterprise: a spray-on solution?
- Accessories before, at and after the fact
- Sticky-beaking, innocent agency and other such defences
Presented by Craig Everson, Senior Counsel, Crown Prosecutors Chambers
1.05pm to 1.15pm Final Q&A and Closing Comments by the Chair
Session 2
Criminal Law: Bail and Sentencing Intensive
Chair: Nicholas Cowdery AO KC FAAL
2.00pm to 3.00pm VIEW FROM THE BENCH: The New Bail Act Amendments
Presented by His Hon Judge Blackmore, District Court of New South Wales
3.00pm to 4.00pm Recent Developments in Evidence & Sentencing
- Does an offender need to give sworn evidence at their sentencing hearing?
- Recent decisions in NSW Criminal Court of Appeal
- Has the position of the CCA in the well-known case of Qutami been reversed?
Presented by Rose Khalilizadeh, Barrister, Forbes Chambers
4.00pm to 4.15pm Afternoon Tea
4.15pm to 5.15pm Commonwealth Offenders & Sentencing
- Release on recognizance after conviction and “exceptional circumstances”
- Similarities and differences with State sentencing
- Xiao error and plea discounts
Presented by Sian McGee, Barrister, Maurice Byers Chambers
Presenters
Her Honour Magistrate Freund
Magistrate Sharon Freund was appointed as Deputy Chief Magistrate of the Local Court of NSW in 2021. Her Honour’s legal career spans almost 30 years. Prior to joining the judiciary, Magistrate Freund worked in private practice holding senior associate and partner positions across several Sydney and national law firms. Her Honour was appointed as a magistrate in 2006. She has served as an arbitrator in the District and Local Court of NSW as well as a Deputy State Coroner and in the Children’s Court. Her Honour is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Notre Dame.
Samantha Lee
As a lawyer at the Redfern Legal Centre (RLC), Samantha heads up the Police Accountability Practice. She has worked for many years in the Criminal Law Unit and In-House Counsel practice at Legal Aid NSW. She also did a stint within the Criminal Law División at the NSW Attorney General Department. In her role at the RLC, Samantha has long challenged the rising use of strip searches which has led to the RLC teaming up with Slater and Gordon to run a class action on behalf of Splendour in the Grass patrons who may have been subjected to an illegal strip search.
Sam Macedone
Sam Macedone is an Accredited Specialist in Criminal Law, with over 50 years’ experience across all aspects of law. Sam appears frequently as a legal commentator on TV and radio stations. Sam’s main professional focus is criminal advocacy work and selected commercial litigation. Throughout his extensive career, Sam has been involved in a number of high-profile cases, including the recent case of NSW NRL player, Curtis Scott, who was unlawfully detained by NSW Police. Sam has had the conduct of matters in the Local Court, District Court, Supreme Court, the Court of Criminal Appeal and the High Court of Australia.
Dr Leon Turnbull
Dr Leon Turnbull is an Occupational and Forensic Psychiatrist who works in both civil and criminal forensic psychiatry. He holds Masters’ Degrees in Psychiatry and Health and Medical Law from Melbourne University and is an Honorary Lecturer in Forensic Psychiatry at Melbourne University. He principally works in private medico-legal practice and has appointments with the Serious Offender Management Branch and the Forensic Leave Panel in Victoria. He is on the medical panels. He provides support to Victoria Police, the Department of Veteran’s Affairs, and the Returned Service League, among others.
Craig Everson SC
Craig Everson was admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of NSW in 1991 and worked for the Aboriginal Legal Service in NSW and the ACT. He was called to the Bar in 1996 and defended serious criminal matters in NSW, the ACT, Victoria and Queensland until he was appointed as NSW Crown Prosecutor in 2005. He has been a Deputy Senior Crown Prosecutor since 2014. In NSW he has conducted matters on both sides of the record before the Court of Criminal Appeal, the Supreme Court, the District Court and the Local Court. He is an accredited advocacy instructor with the Australian Advocacy Institute and the NSW Bar Association.
Nicholas Cowdery AO KC FAAL
Former Director of Public Prosecutions for NSW (1994-2011), former Barrister (1971-2017), former Associate Judge of the District Court of NSW (periods in 1988, 89 and 90), inaugural member of the NSW Sentencing Council (2003-2016), inaugural Co-Chair Human Rights Institute of International Bar Association (1995-2001), former President International Association of Prosecutors (1999-2005) and Chair of its Senate, former President and Committee member NSW Council for Civil Liberties, Adjunct Professor of Law at Universities of Sydney and of NSW, a director of the Justice Reform Initiative, member of the NSW Bar Association Criminal Law Committee and the Law Council of Australia National Human Rights Committee.
His Honour Judge Blackmore
His Honour Judge Martin Blackmore, was formerly a Barrister and has appeared at all levels of the judicial system in NSW, both in private practice and as a NSW prosecutor, including appearing in more than 100 cases in the High Court of Australia. His Honour has been a judge in NSW for more than 20 years predominantly conducting criminal trials in both the District Court and the Supreme Court. In addition, His Honour was recently awarded an honorary Doctorate for his services to legal practice in NSW by Macquarie University. His Honour as presided over many Courts as acting Judge of the District Court, NSW; former Judge of the District Court of NSW; former Acting Supreme Court Judge NSW. His Honour has also previously appeared as the Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions (NSW); former Deputy Senior Crown Prosecutor (NSW); and as a Barrister at the NSW Bar. His Honour is a member of Ground Floor Wentworth Chambers Sydney, was appointed Senior Counsel in 2002; Authored Criminal Law (NSW) published by Thomson Reuters, and was the consulting editor of District Court Law Reports (NSW) also published by Thomson Reuters.
Rose Khalilizadeh
Rose Khalilizadeh is a barrister at Forbes Chambers. She was admitted to the Bar after working as a solicitor at Legal Aid NSW, the Children’s Legal Service, the Aboriginal Legal Service NSW/ACT and in private criminal practice. Prior to that, she was Tipstaff to Justice Roger Giles (NSW Court of Appeal) and held various positions at the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions and the NSW Legislative Council. Rose appears in a wide range of criminal matters, including jury trials, appeals, contested hearings, sentence matters, Children’s Court matters, High Risk Offender applications and matters before various boards and tribunals.
Sian McGee
Sian McGee is a barrister at Maurice Byers Chambers. She practices in criminal law, administrative law, coronial inquests/inquiries, and professional negligence and discipline. In 2019, she was junior counsel assisting the Inquiry into the convictions of Kathleen Folbigg. In 2016-2017 she was junior counsel assisting the Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the Northern Territory.
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Level 3, 10 Spring Street
Sydney 2000
NSW
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