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Advising on Merit Appeals: The Reasonable Prospect of Success
Cross-Examination of Children
Cross-Examination
DNA Evidence Considered
Dealing with DNA in Court: its use and misuse
DNA in the Local Court - the CSI effect
Evidence in Chief - The Ten Commandments of
Evidence - Transactional - Res Gestae
Evidence - Using the Evidence Act for the Defence
Evidence - The Use of Documents in Cross-Examination and Examination in Chief in Criminal Trials
Excluding Evidence of Admissions
Fitness to be Tried
People with Cognitive and Mental Health Impairments in the Criminal Justice System
Sentencing in the District Court: Practical Considerations
Sentencing in Serious Criminal Matters
Appeals from the Local Court to the Supreme Court
Applying the Amended Mental Health (Forensic Provisions) Act 1990
Applying the Amended Mental Health (Forensic Provisions) Act 1990 and Rethinking the Defence of Mental Illness
Aspects of Hearsay Evidence
Bail Laws 2008 - s.22A Bail Act 1978
Court of Criminal Appeal Sentencing Law Update 2007
Court of Criminal Appeal Sentencing Law Update 2008
Court of Criminal Appeal Update: Review of 2009
Court of Criminal Appeal Update: Review of 2010
Children and the High and Supreme Courts 2007-2008
Common Purpose and Joint Criminal Enterprise
Confessional Evidence
Crimes Amendment (Self Defence) Act 2001
Crimes (Sentencing Procedure) Amendment (Standard Minimum Sentencing) Act 2002
Court of Criminal Appeal update: Review of 2011
Pre-trial Disclosure Imposed on Complex Criminal Trials
Criminal Law Update
New Criminal Legislation 2003
Criminal Legislation 2004
New Criminal Legislation 2005
Criminal Legislation - 2006
Criminal Legislation - 2007
The Crown Appeals Virus: Prevention and Cure
Current Law on Self Defence
DNA - Analysis and Probability
DNA for Defence Lawyers
DNA in the Local Court
DNA - An Overview of Testing and the Crimes (Forensic Procedures) Act 2000
Evidence Act - s165
Fitness to be Tried in Superior Courts
Hearsay Evidence - The Rule in the Children's Court
Legislative Developments in 2004
Partial Defences to Murder, Provocation and Diminished Responsibility
Police Powers 2006
Preparation of Criminal Trials For Bega Sittings
Principles of Complicity
Principles Governing Applications for Leave to Appeal against Sentence
Recent Cases on Sentencing
Recent Developments in Sentencing
The 'Right' to Silence - Only Half a Right
The Rule Against Double Jeopardy
The Rule Against Hearsay
Sentencing Aboriginal Offenders
Sentencing Children
Sentencing Children at Law - 2005
Sentencing Commonwealth Offenders: Some Recent Developments
Sentencing Issues 2003
Sentencing - Recent Cases and Changes: 2004-2005
Sentencing Review: The Crimes (Sentencing Procedure) Act 1999 - 2 years on
Recent Developments in Sexual Assault Law
Sex and the Modern Criminal Lawyer
Sexual Assault - Matters to Consider when Preparing and Conducting Sexual Assault Trials
Standard Non-Parole Periods: A Way Through the Mire
Suspended Sentences: Some Common Questions
Tactical Plea Making in the Superior Courts
Tendency and Coincidence Evidence
Unrepresented Litigants: The Criminal Justice Perspective
When Life Means Life
Early Appropriate Guilty Pleas
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Guide to Mental Health Forensic Processes
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