Oral, Written and Documentary Evidence
Issues covered include: Oral evidence, New laws, the deposition power, eliciting evidence, adducing documentary evidence
Description
From 1 February 2019 evidence in chief in civil trials are to be given orally without the benefit of witness statements. Attend this seminar to learn about the effect this has on how you prepare and whether there is an alternative to witness statements as well as adducing documentary evidence
Attend and earn 3 CPD hours in Competency Area 2: Professional Skills
This seminar was recorded in WA on 18 September 2019
Chair: Natasha Stewart, Barrister, Francis Burt Chambers
NEW LAW
NOTICE TO PRACTITIONERS: WITNESS STATEMENTS OUT & WITNESS OUTLINES IN: ELICITING EVIDENCE AFTER 1 FEBRUARY 2019
2.00pm to 3.00pm: Oral Evidence, Without a Witness Statement
- Witness preparation
- Examination in Chief – techniques of examination
- Examination in Chief – Objections to evidence
- When your witness is in trouble
3.00pm to 4.00pm: The Deposition Power: Evidence Taken De Bene Esse
- Power to order evidence to be taken: where, when and who
- Practice on examination and objections
- How are depositions to be taken
- Fees, expenses, reports and Orders
Presented by Katja Levy, Principal, Rossello Chambers and Richard Douglas, Francis Burt Chambers
4.00pm to 4.15pm Afternoon Tea
4.15pm to 5.15pm: The Nuts and Bolts of Adducing Documentary Evidence
- How to tender a document through a witness
- Tendering a document without a witness
- Can non-disclosed documents be put in evidence?
- What is documentary hearsay?
- Notices to produce, subpoenas for production of documents,
- Objecting to documents being tendered
- How to assess a document for relevance, stamping considerations, use of copies, evidence act issues, admissions against interest in document
- What legislative material is required to be put into evidence
Presented by Stuart Shepherd, Barrister, Murray Chambers
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.