Driving Offences: Major Update
Issues covered include: PCA Matters, roadside drug testing, defending driving offences, traffic offences cases
Description
Get across all the latest developments in driving offences to help you and your practice stand out. Receive an essential case update and delve into potential defences for driving offences. Hear the pharmacological evidence on alcohol and driving and PCA matters.
Attend and earn 3 CPD units in Substantive Law
RECORDED SESSION
9.00am to 10.05am: THE PHARMACOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE: Alcohol and Driving and PCA Matters: The Pharmacological Evidence
- Defending PCA matters: Evidentiary breath analysis
- Alcohol pharmacology
- Breath alcohol concentration at time of driving
Presented by Dr Stuart Anderson, Galbraith Consulting
10.05am to 10.55am: Roadside Drug Testing: Cannabis Focus
Explore the effects of cannabis on driving and examine the most current findings in this rapidly developing area of law.
- Effects of cannabis on driving
- Cannabis pharmacokinetics & pharmacodynamics
- Roadside drug testing: accuracy and reliability
Presented by Thomas Arkell, Project Co-coordinator, Lambert Initiative; PHD Candidate
10.55am to 11.10am Morning Tea
11.10am to 12.10pm: Defending Driving Offences: Potential Defences
- Defending PCA/ Drug driving charges including:
- Honest and reasonable mistake
- The ‘Jimenez’ defence
- Challenging the reading
- Defending unlicensed driving charges
- Defending negligence/dangerous driving charges
- Defending DUI charges
Presented by Michal Mantaj, Managing Lawyer, Conditsis & Associates; Accredited Specialist in Criminal Law
Venue
Cliftons Sydney
Level 13, 60 Margaret St
Sydney 2000
NSW
Australia