Description
Attend and earn 0.5 CPD hour in Substantive Law
This program is based on QLD legislation
Chair
Anna Cappellano, Barrister, Higgins Chambers; Recommended Criminal Law Barrister, Junior Counsel, Doyle’s Guide, 2024
The Criminal Justice Legislation (Sexual Violence and Other Matters) Amendment Act 2024 and the Admissibility of Expert Evidence in Sexual Offence Matters
- Providing an outline of the new framework on the admissibility of expert evidence in sexual offences matters and the impact on criminal trials
- The creation of the expert evidence panel
- The operation of the expert evidence panel in relation to both affirmative consent and counterintuitive evidence
- Exploration of the expert evidence panel pilot in Brisbane and Townsville
Presented by Kristy Bell, Director, Bell Criminal Lawyers; Accredited Specialist in Criminal Law; Leading Criminal Defence Lawyer, Doyle’s Guide 2024
Presenters
Kristy Bell, Director, Bell Criminal Lawyers
Kristy Bell is director at Bell Criminal Lawyers. Kristy is one of a handful of Accredited Criminal Law Specialists in Queensland. She is a member of the Queensland Law Society’s Criminal Law and Specialist Accreditation Committees and has been recognised as one of Queensland’s recommended leading Criminal Defence Lawyers in Doyle’s Guide. Kristy works on all kinds of criminal and quasi-criminal matters including investigative hearings, commissions, coronial inquests, parole applications and criminal confiscations matters.
Anna Cappellano, Barrister, Higgins Chambers
Anna has practiced at the private Bar in Queensland since 2008. She is passionate about social justice and providing fearless advocacy for people who find themselves confronting the criminal justice system. Anna’s practice at the Bar focuses primarily on criminal law and regulatory matters. She regularly appears on behalf of both defendants and prosecuting authorities at the State and Commonwealth level in proceedings in the District Courts, Supreme Court of Queensland, the Queensland Court of Appeal and the Norfolk Island Court of Petty Sessions and Supreme Court. In 2022, Anna was one of the Counsel Assisting the Commission of Inquiry into Queensland Police Service responses to domestic and family violence. Anna is also member of the Bar Association’s Criminal Law Committee.
