• CPD Points: 1 [PS]
  • Price: $44.00
  • Area: Criminal Law; Legal Skills & Technique; Litigation
  • Delivered: November 2015
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Description

This session, delivered by Dr Ian Freckelton QC as part of the Litigation Conference 2015, covers the role of the expert witness including discussion of the Supreme Court Rules relevant to expert evidence; what makes an effective forensic expert; judicial anxieties about expert evidence; exclusion of evidence; the privileges of a forensic expert; what makes for good report contents; liability of experts in Australia; and the evolving environment for expert reports and emerging accountability. Key decisions will be considered.

Ian Freckelton, Barrister, Crockett Chambers (Vic)

About the Presenter:

Dr Ian Freckelton QC is a Melbourne-based barrister who is a member of the Tasmanian and Victorian Bars. He took silk in 2007. His practice is trial, appellate and advisory throughout Australia. Ian is editor of Thomson-Reuters 7-volume loose-leaf service on Expert Evidence. His book on Expert Evidence and Criminal Jury Trials has been published by Oxford University Press. He has been a member of 10 administrative tribunals and is also (by night) a Professorial Fellow in Law and Psychiatry at the University of Melbourne and an Adjunct Professor of Law and Forensic Medicine at Monash University. He was a Commissioner at the Victorian Law Reform Commission, leading its reference on Medicinal Cannabis. He is the Editor of the Journal of Law and Medicine and the Editor-In-Chief of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law. Dr Freckelton appeared for the NSW Police in the Lindt Café Inquest.

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