Chair
Amy Douglas-Baker, Barrister at Fourth Floor Selborne Chambers
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD hour in Substantive Law
This program is based on NSW legislation
* This interactive online recording includes questions and quizzes requiring critical thinking about the topics, so you have no annual limits to the number of points/hours you can claim with this format of learning. Please verify with your CPD rules
The Future of Integrity: Navigating the National Anti-Corruption Commission's Blueprint
- Designing an Agency’s compliance program for the National Anti-Corruption Commission Act
- Planning and conducting internal administrative inquiries when serious or systemic corrupt conduct is suspected
- Reporting suspected serious or systemic corrupt conduct to the NACC,
- Consequences for a failure to report
- Responding to a stop-action direction from the NACC
- Compelling participation by witnesses in interviews
- The production of information during an Agency’s internal inquiry,
- Witness objections and protections
- The relevance of secrecy obligations and the Privacy Act 1988 during an inquiry
Presented by Dr Stephen Gordon Thompson, Special Counsel, Sparke Helmore; Accredited Specialist in Government and Administrative Law
Presenters
Stephen Gordon Thompson, Special Counsel, Sparke Helmore
Dr Stephen Thompson is a special counsel with Sparke Helmore, solicitors. He is an accredited specialist in public and administrative law in NSW and practices exclusively in that area. He is a legal officer in the Army Reserve practising in military administrative law.
Amy Douglas-Baker, Barrister, Fourth Floor Selborne Chambers
Amy Douglas-Baker was called to the Bar in 2009 and holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hons), Bachelor of Laws (Hons), and Master of Laws (Hons Eq) from the University of Sydney. Prior to commencing practice as a barrister, Amy was a Tipstaff/Researcher to Justice Hall in the Supreme Court of New South Wales and an Associate to Judge Nicholls in the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia. Amy practises in public/administrative law and commercial/equity and has extensive experience in inquests, commissions of inquiry, professional disciplinary proceedings, judicial and merits review and on applications for suppression and protective orders involving matters of public interest immunity and protected information. Amy regularly appears for and advises the Registrar-General of NSW, the NSW Crime Commission, the NSW Commissioner of Police, the NSW Commissioner for Fair Trading, the NSW Commissioner of Corrective Services, the Office of the Children’s Guardian and the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia in civil and criminal matters. Amy is a member of the Constitutional and Administrative Law Section of the NSW Bar Association, the Australian Association of Constitutional Law, and the Australian Institute of Administrative Law. Amy served on a Professional Conduct Committee of the NSW Bar Association for 8 consecutive years and has served on numerous other Bar Association committees including as an officer-holder.
