- CPD Points: 1 [PS]
- Price: $65.00
- Area: Advocacy; Criminal Law; Litigation
- Delivered: August 2024
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Description
This session is one of two in a series presented by Pip Monk, Monk Lawyers, and James Oxley, James Oxley Barrister & Solicitor. The session covers the following:
- Discussion of how to prepare criminal hearings in the Magistrates Court, including ensuring you have all relevant disclosure, preparing objections and determining legal issues and solidifying your case theory.
- Coverage of negotiations with Prosecution and how best to approach those negotiations, including when and how to negotiate.
- Consideration of the actual hearing, with tips on cross examination, making objections to the evidence, closing submissions and determining what advice to give about calling your client to give evidence.
The key takeaways include:
- How to prepare yourself and your client for the hearing.
- Negotiating with Prosecution, either to drop/amend the charge or about whether to call certain evidence.
- Guidance on cross examination and examination in chief in CPS hearings, and other evidentiary matters.
- CPD Points: 1 [PS]
- Price: $65.00
- Area: Advocacy; Criminal Law; Litigation
- Delivered: August 2024
Digital Content
- Recording
- Papers (None)
To purchase login below
Description
This session is one of two in a series presented by Pip Monk, Monk Lawyers, and James Oxley, James Oxley Barrister & Solicitor. The session covers the following:
- Discussion of how to prepare criminal hearings in the Magistrates Court, including ensuring you have all relevant disclosure, preparing objections and determining legal issues and solidifying your case theory.
- Coverage of negotiations with Prosecution and how best to approach those negotiations, including when and how to negotiate.
- Consideration of the actual hearing, with tips on cross examination, making objections to the evidence, closing submissions and determining what advice to give about calling your client to give evidence.
The key takeaways include:
- How to prepare yourself and your client for the hearing.
- Negotiating with Prosecution, either to drop/amend the charge or about whether to call certain evidence.
- Guidance on cross examination and examination in chief in CPS hearings, and other evidentiary matters.
Philippa Monk, Principal, Monk Lawyers
About the Presenter:
Ms Pip Monk graduated from UTAS in 2010 and has acquired over a decade of experience as a leading advocate and criminal defence lawyer in Tasmania and South Australia. After graduating Pip moved to South Australia where she began working for the Legal Services Commission of South Australia. She returned to Tasmania in 2013 and worked for Tasmania Legal Aid from 2013-2023. She is known for her expertise in criminal law. Now based in Hobart, Pip recently established her own legal practice, Monk Lawyers. Pip is a current member of The Law Society of Tasmania's Criminal Law Committee.
James Oxley, Principal, James Oxley, Barrister & Solicitor
About the Presenter:
James Oxley – Throughout James' career he has specialised in criminal law and now only practices in this area. He moved to Launceston in 2008 and commenced working in private practice at Archer Bushby, where he worked in general litigation and criminal law. Between 2012 and 2023 he worked at Tasmania Legal Aid (TLA) in a range of criminal law roles before being appointed Associate Director Criminal Law. In that role, he was responsible for leadership of the statewide criminal practice at TLA. James has conducted many jury trials for a range of crimes, achieving not guilty verdicts in murder, rape, arson, robbery, assault, and wounding trials. He has also appeared on a range of complex cases in the Supreme Court including special hearings to determine fitness to stand trial, cases with clients who had significant mental impairments and complex sentencing hearings. James also appears in the Magistrates Court for bail applications, hearings, disputed facts hearings, special hearings, pleas of guilty, court mandated drug cases, mental health diversion list cases, youth justice cases and many others. James is a current member of The Law Society of Tasmania's Criminal Law Committee.
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