Admissibility of Evidence in Criminal Cases
The success of a criminal lawyer can be measured by their ability to deftly gather, leverage, or challenge evidence. Thus it’s imperative that you to stay up to date with the current rules to ensure that you can get the most out of your evidence while expertly restricting the evidence offered against your client and the manner in which that evidence is presented. This seminar will ensure that you are armed and ready to successfully represent your client.
Description
Attend and earn 4 CPD units including:
1 unit in Substantive Law
3 units in Professional Skills
Chair: Kristie Molloy, Barrister, Legoe Chambers
Professional Skills
9.00am to 10.00am: Admissibility of Children’s Evidence: Managing the Evidence Act Provisions
- Practical issues to deal with children as witnesses
- Sworn/unsworn evidence and s9 hearings
- Ways of getting evidence in to discredit the child’s evidence
- Issuing subpoenas to whom: family, school records and other
Presented by Michelle Barnes, Barrister, Len King Chambers
10.00am to 11.00am: Discreditable Conduct
- Admissibility of discreditable conduct evidence: offences against the person and drug trafficking
- Recent developments in the High Court
Presented by Kris Handshin, Barrister, Bar Chambers
11.00am to 11.15am: Morning Tea
Professional Skills
11.15am to 12.15pm: Admissibility of Expert Evidence
- Law on the admissibility of expert evidence
- Section 269 Mental Fitness Hearings
- Obtaining reports
- Proofing experts
- Challenging expert opinions
Presented by Jane Abbey, Barrister, Len King Chambers
Professional Skills
12.15pm to 1.15pm: Challenging the Legality of Police Search Powers in Drug Trials
- Types of warrants
- Red flags to look for when police search for drugs
- Property searches vs car searches
- How to challenge the question of ‘reasonable suspicion’
- Saying that there is a challenge to the search in light of the Criminal Procedure Act and District Court Rules
- DPP’s response to search challenges
- The Court’s discretion to admit evidence even if the search is illegal: recent authorities
Presented by Ed Jolly, Barrister, Len King Chambers
Venue
Stamford Plaza Adelaide Hotel
Level 2, 150 North Terrace
Adelaide 5000
SA
Australia