CANCELLED: Criminal Law Evidence Intensive
We’ve heard your requests: you want to know more about evidence. Come to this intensive and gain an insight into multiple areas of evidence that directly affect your practice. Foster your knowledge of digital forensics, motor vehicles and cameras, expert medical evidence and children’s evidence. After this intensive you will have the knowledge and skills needed to improve your practice, courtroom appearances and client interactions.
Description
Attend and earn 4 CPD points in Competency Area 4: Substantive Law
Chair: Asanka Gunasekera, Barrister, Francis Burt Chambers
9.00am to 10.00am: Digital Forensics Update
- The challenges of acquiring digital evidence from online sources including social media, iCloud and email repositories
- Evidence extraction issues with cell phones and other handheld devices
- Case studies showing the usefulness of digital evidence in a broad range of criminal and other court cases
- Explanation of cell tower and cell phone evidence to assist in determining the location and activities of persons suspected of criminal activities
Presented by Richard Boddington, Principal, Forensics Australia
10.00am to 11.00am: Motor Vehicles and Cameras: Latest Developments
- Vehicle data captured from on-board computers/sensors (how to retrieve, access and use it as evidence)
- Autonomous and semi-autonomous vehicles (liability, criminality, what extra information do they capture/store, what can we use as evidence)
- Speed cameras: how to challenge using on-board dashcams and GPS
Presented by Bob Davey, Forensic Consultant, Motor Vehicle Accident Consultants
11.00am to 11.15am: Morning Tea
11.15am to 12.15pm: Admissibility of Children’s Evidence
- Practical issues to deal with children as witnesses
- Sworn/unsworn evidence
- Ways of getting evidence in to discredit the child’s evidence
- Ground rules hearings
Presented by Alana Padmanabham, Barrister and Solicitor, AP Legal
12.15pm to 1.15pm: Expert Medical Evidence
- Legal perspective
- Medical perspective
- Tips and traps to make the most effective use of expert medical evidence
- New developments
Presented by Nicholas van Hattem, Barrister, Francis Burt Chambers and Dr Alexander van Hattem, Forensic Psychiatrist
Venue
Mercure Perth
Level 1, 10 Irwin St
Perth 6000
WA
Australia