Criminal Law: Preventative Detention: The New Normal?
OND233W053
Description
Attend and earn 1 hour in Competency Area 4: Substantive Law
This program is based on WA legislation
11.15am to 12.15pm Preventative Detention: The New Normal?
- The High Risk Serious Offenders Act 2020 (WA) and Garlett v Western Australia [2022] HCA 30
- Implications for future preventative detention regimes
- Impact on applications for detention orders
Presented by Chris Terren, Barrister and Sam Pack, Barrister, Francis Burt Chambers
Presenters
Chris Terren
Chris Terren practices in both commercial and public law. Chris has particular experience with corporate and personal insolvency matters, contractual and commercial disputes, and post-determination native title matters. Chris has appeared as sole counsel in the Supreme Court, District Court, Magistrates Court, Family Court, Warden’s Court and Federal Courts, along with various tribunals. He has also instructed in complex civil trials and appeals including in the High Court of Australia. Before joining the independent bar, Chris worked on a wide range of commercial disputes, insolvency and native title matters at Roe Legal Services where he was a senior associate.
Sam Pack
Sam has a broad practice which includes public law, criminal law, and industrial and employment law. From 2016 to 2022, Sam was employed at the State Solicitor’s Office where he acted as counsel in a wide range of civil and criminal matters at both the trial and appellate level, including complex regulatory prosecutions, criminal appeals, judicial review applications, merits review applications, civil disputes, and coronial inquests. In 2022, he appeared twice as junior counsel in the High Court in constitutional matters. Immediately before joining the Bar, Sam practiced extensively in public sector industrial relations and employment law. He has also previously undertaken a secondment at the Corruption and Crime Commission. Sam holds a Master of Law with First Class Honours from the University of Cambridge and a Bachelor of Laws with First Class Honours from the University of Western Australia, where he has tutored in public law, torts, equity, and trusts.