Friday, 28 November 2025
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD unit in Professional Skills
This program is based on NSW legislation
Professional Skills
Photo and Voice Identification Toolkit
- Overview of the legislative framework for photo and voice identification under the Evidence Act 1995 (NSW)
- Common risks and reliability issues in identification evidence
- Recent cases affecting admissibility and use in court
- Challenging and excluding flawed identification evidence
- Effective cross-examination strategies for identification witnesses
- Jury directions and their role in mitigating wrongful identification risks
- Practical tips for preparing and presenting identification evidence
Presented by Damien Mahon, Partner, Liberato Defence Lawyers; Accredited Specialist in Criminal Law and Lindsay Stankovic, Partner, Liberato Defence Lawyers
Chair
Ian Lloyd KC, Trust Chambers
Presenters
Ian Lloyd KC, Trust ChambersIan Lloyd KC was called to the NSW Bar in 1977. He took silk in 1989. He is also a member of the bar in Hong Kong, New York and England & Wales. Mr Lloyd is one of Sydney’s leading criminal law silks. Mr Lloyd was during the 1980s a Senior Crown Counsel with the Hong Kong Government and in the early 1990s the Senior Crown Prosecutor for NSW. Mr Lloyd is also a former Justice of the Court of Appeal of the Fiji Islands and Conjoint Associate Professor with the University of Newcastle Law School. He has previously lectured in law at the University of Technology, the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the University of Notre Dame, Sydney.
Lindsay Stankovic, Partner, Liberato Defence Lawyers
Lindsay is a Partner at Liberato Defence Lawyers. Her practice is focused on complex and serious indictable crime, including allegations of murder and manslaughter, sexual assault, intimate partner violence, drug supply and importation, violent offending and white-collar crime. She holds a Bachelor of Laws with First Class Honours and began her career as an Associate in the District Court before working for leading criminal defence firms in Sydney and later founding Liberato with Damien Mahon. In 2023, Lindsay was a finalist in the Lawyers Weekly 30 Under 30 Awards (Criminal Law), and in 2024 and 2025 she was listed as a Criminal Law Rising Star in Doyle’s Guide.
Damien Mahon, Partner, Liberato Defence Lawyers
Damien is an Accredited Specialist in Criminal Law and Partner at Liberato Defence Lawyers. He was worked exclusively in criminal defence private practice throughout his career and has acted for accused persons in many serious and high profile matters in New South Wales, including allegations of murder and terrorism. He appears regularly as a solicitor advocate in the Local, District and Supreme Courts. Since founding Liberato together with Lindsay Stankovic, Damien maintains a diverse practice in Newcastle, Sydney and wider NSW, with a dedicated focus on complex and serious trial proceedings.
