• CPD Points: 1 [E] [PS] [EW]
  • Price: $89.00
  • Area: Advocacy; Criminal Law; Litigation
  • Delivered: February 2025
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  • Recording
  • No Paper

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Description

This session is delivered by Caroline Graves, Barrister, Michael Kirby Chambers and Greg Richardson, Principal, G. A. Richardson into the 2025 Criminal Law Conference. This session commences with discussion between the presenters and follows with audience engagement around the following points:

  • The pitfalls of in-Court and electronic communications.
  • Etiquette with Supreme and Magistrates Court clerks, staff and associates.
  • Telephone appearances, and requests/attitudes of – Judiciary and Magistracy.
  • Arrangements due to sickness or clashes in the diary
  • How to handle things when trials are set down at short notice.
  • Overbearing or unreasonable Judiciary and Magistracy cross-examination of counsel on disclosure matters.
  • Any matters criminal lawyers want to raise about their current criminal practice experiences.
  • Variations in intra and interstate jurisdictional – Magistracy or Judiciary expectations.
  • How to raise a matter of concern about opposing counsel.

Key Takeaways

  • Practical tips (shared and individual) from senior criminal Counsel.
  • How to handle a complaint of treatment in Court by Judiciary or Magistracy.
  • Strategies to handle overtly or overly aggressive treatment in Court by Judiciary, Magistracy or other Counsel.
  • CPD Points: 1 [E] [PS] [EW]
  • Price: $89.00
  • Area: Advocacy; Criminal Law; Litigation
  • Delivered: February 2025
Digital Content
  • Recording
  • No Paper

To purchase login below

Description

This session is delivered by Caroline Graves, Barrister, Michael Kirby Chambers and Greg Richardson, Principal, G. A. Richardson into the 2025 Criminal Law Conference. This session commences with discussion between the presenters and follows with audience engagement around the following points:

  • The pitfalls of in-Court and electronic communications.
  • Etiquette with Supreme and Magistrates Court clerks, staff and associates.
  • Telephone appearances, and requests/attitudes of – Judiciary and Magistracy.
  • Arrangements due to sickness or clashes in the diary
  • How to handle things when trials are set down at short notice.
  • Overbearing or unreasonable Judiciary and Magistracy cross-examination of counsel on disclosure matters.
  • Any matters criminal lawyers want to raise about their current criminal practice experiences.
  • Variations in intra and interstate jurisdictional – Magistracy or Judiciary expectations.
  • How to raise a matter of concern about opposing counsel.

Key Takeaways

  • Practical tips (shared and individual) from senior criminal Counsel.
  • How to handle a complaint of treatment in Court by Judiciary or Magistracy.
  • Strategies to handle overtly or overly aggressive treatment in Court by Judiciary, Magistracy or other Counsel.

Caroline Graves, Barrister, Michael Kirby Chambers

About the Presenter:

Caroline Graves graduated with Bachelor of Laws, University of Tasmania in 1995 and completed her Articles of Apprenticeship at the Department of Public Prosecutions Tasmania in Hobart in the criminal and civil areas and Tasmania Police Southern Prosecution in summary prosecutions. She has held public health law and policy roles in the Tasmanian Health Service and was a public health prosecutor. Caroline has a wide experience in the alcohol, tobacco and other drugs field and she often appears in therapeutic courts including Court Mandated Diversion, specialising in the area of therapeutic jurisprudence. In her current criminal law practice Caroline specialises in the defence of major crime appearing regularly the Supreme Court of Tasmania and in summary prosecutions in Magistrates court matters including dishonesty, traffic, drug matters, sexual offences and offences of violence, public disorder matters and firearms matters. Caroline is a member of the Family Law Committee of the Law Society or Tasmania, and is a member of the Family Law Practitioners Association of Tasmania Inc.(FLPAT)- Child Safety Subcommittee.

Gregory Richardson, Principal, G. A. Richardson

About the Presenter:

​​Greg Richardson was admitted to practice in 1974. He has since practiced primarily in Criminal Law. Greg is one of the state’s most experienced criminal lawyers, who appears regularly in the Magistrates Court, Supreme Court and the Court of Criminal Appeal.

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