Chair:
Alexander Ward AM, Barrister, Edmund Barton Chambers
CRIME - Update on Recent Developments in Criminal Law
This practical interactive session will cover -
- Recent statutory changes to sentencing laws
- New proposed criminal offences including causing death by driving without due care and sexual offences
- The intervention order scheme and Special Statutory Rules
- Recent significant Supreme Court decisions and their implications
Presented by James Marcus, Barrister, Len King Chambers
Attend and earn 1 CPD unit in Substantive Law
Presenters
Alexander Ward AM, Barrister, Edmund Barton Chambers
President of the Law Council of Australia, Alexander Ward has 39 year’s experience as a solicitor and barrister. He has been the Australian representative on the Commonwealth Lawyers Association since 2008, and was its President (2015 – 2017). He has practised as a barrister at Edmund Barton Chambers in Adelaide since 2002. He practises in civil litigation, with an emphasis on accident cases, fraud cases and cases involving complicated liability issues. He appears in the SAET. Mr Ward was President of the Law Society of South Australia in 2004-05. He was a member of several Law Society Committees including those mentoring indigenous law students, and ethics and professional standards. He was a member of the Law Society's Ethics and Practice Committee. He is a legal officer in the Royal Australian Navy (Commander) and is an Assistant Inspector General of the ADF. CMDR Ward was Chair of the ADF Defence Legal Ethics Advisory Committee. He became a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in 2024.
James Marcus, Barrister, Len King Chambers
James was admitted to practice in 2012 and practiced as a general legal advisor and criminal defence lawyer for five years before joining the South Australia Office of the Director of Public Prosecution as a trial prosecutor in 2017. James has experience as prosecutor and defence counsel in a wide range of serious and complex criminal matters in first instance and on appeal in all South Australian jurisdictions. James also has experience in administrative and commercial law providing advice and appearing as counsel in judicial and merit reviews of government decisions and in commercial litigation. In April 2019 James joined the independent bar and practices from Len King Chambers in all South Australian jurisdictions. James accepts briefs in criminal law and associated matters such as professional disciplinary, examinations, confiscation proceedings, intervention orders and control orders, administrative law, inquests and enquiries and commercial litigation. James also conducts appellate proceedings from all such matters. James is presently a member of the Law Society of South Australia Criminal Law Committee.