CPD Core Competency Areas for Criminal Lawyers
Issues covered include: Independent experts, technology, work life balance, managing clients, ethical issues.
Description
This intensive and in-depth program offers the perfect opportunity to update your knowledge and sharpen your skills so that you’re prepared for any matter that comes your way in 2019, from small cases to big cases to everything in between. Elevate your practice all while gaining your CPD core competency points in focused sessions tailor made for lawyers working in criminal law and delivered by practitioners that understand the issues you deal with in your practice.
Attend and earn 3 CPD points including:
1 point in Competency Area 1: Practice Management
1 point in Competency Area 2: Professional Skills
1 point in Competency Area 3: Ethics & Professional Responsibility
This seminar was recorded in WA on 14 March 2019
Chair: Terry Dobson, Director, Terry Dobson Legal
Competency Area 2: Professional Skills
2.00pm to 3.00pm: Effectively and Efficiently Working with Independent Experts
- How to, when to and why engage an expert
- Managing evidence: strategies and pitfalls
- Criminal Procedure Act obligations
- Evidence Act obligations
Presented by Mark Trowell QC, Albert Wolff Chambers
Competency Area 1: Practice Management
3.00pm to 4.00pm: Cash, Clients and Common-sense: Challenges for Criminal Lawyers in Practice
- Managing client expectations
- Technology, workflow and practice management
- Striving for work/life balance
- Money matters
Presented by Rosie Myers, Director/Lawyer, Geoghegan Myers Legal
4.00pm to 4.15pm Afternoon Tea
Competency Area 3: Ethics & Professional Responsibility
4.15pm to 5.15pm: Ethical issues in Criminal Law Practice
This session will cover key ethical considerations that can arise in practicing in criminal law.
Presented by Frances Veltman, Barrister, Sir Clifford Grant Chambers