CANCELLED: CPD Core Competency Areas for Criminal Lawyers
Do you need your compulsory CPD points? Would you like to learn relevant skills that you can use in your practice? Are you interested in hearing from Perth’s top criminal law practitioners? We have you covered with this intensive and in-depth criminal law CPD program. Learn how to effectively and efficiently work with independent experts. Hone your ethics skills. Get practical tips on how to manage counsel. You are bound to leave this session with a refreshed and elevated skill set.
Description
Attend and earn 3 CPD points including:
1 CPD point in Competency Area 1: Practice Management
1 CPD point in Competency Area 2: Professional Skills
1 CPD point in Competency Area 3: Ethics & Professional Responsibility
Chair: Lisa Tovey, Barrister, John Toohey Chambers
Competency Area 1: Practice Management
2.00pm to 3.00pm: Managing Your Practice in Child Sexual Assault Cases: Specific Issues and Pitfalls
- Setting up your practice to deal with unique dilemmas in sexual assault cases
- Time management: strategies to manage your criminal law practice
- Why are child sexual assault cases so specialised?
- Witness summons
- Section 19C Evidence Act 1906
- Proofs of evidence and the election to give evidence
Presented by Gerald Yin, Senior Associate and Amanda Blackburn, Senior Associate, D.G. Price & Co; Recommended Criminal Defence Lawyers, Doyle’s Guide 2019
Competency Area 2: Ethics & Professional Responsibility
3.00pm to 4.00pm: Individual Dilemmas and How to Deal with Them
Too many lawyers are unacquainted with various ethics rules and what to do in particular circumstances. Decisions are made which should have been avoided. Responsibilities towards clients, fellow practitioners and to prosecutors/crowns and the courts are lost and overlooked by many lawyers. Explore these issues and better understand the ethics and responsibilities that you must observe as a lawyer.
Presented by Frances Veltman, Barrister, Sir Clifford Grant Chambers
4.00pm to 4.15pm Afternoon Tea
Competency Area 3: Professional Skills
4.15pm to 5.15pm: Working with Independent Experts: Doing it Effectively and Efficiently
- How to, when to and why engage an expert
- Understanding the Evidence Act obligations
- Managing evidence: strategies and pitfalls
- Knowing the Criminal Procedure Act obligations
Presented by Mark Trowell QC, Albert Wolff Chambers; Recommended Criminal Law Senior Counsel, Doyle’s Guide 2019
Venue
Mercure Perth
Level 1, 10 Irwin St
Perth 6000
WA
Australia