Friday, 28 November 2025
Description
Attend and earn 0.5 CPD unit in Substantive Law
This program is based on NSW legislation
Chair
Ian Lloyd KC, Trust Chambers
Causal Link or Contribution?
Mental health, backgrounds of disadvantage, sexual abuse and their impact on sentencing. Consider the potential impact of mental health, a background of disadvantage and sexual abuse on the purposes of sentencing in s3A of the Crimes (Sentencing Procedure) Act, on common law sentencing principles including moral culpability.
- Consider the current state of the authorities in New South Wales
- Gain practical tips for presenting the best case on sentence on behalf of your client and meeting Crown arguments
Presented by Eugene Renard, Barrister, Samuel Griffith 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.
Eugene Renard, Barrister, Samuel Griffith Chambers
Eugene is a Barrister at Samuel Griffith Chambers. He specialises in criminal defence with a particular focus on jury and judge alone trials. He regularly appears unled for people charged with serious offences in the Local, District and Children’s Court and accepts briefs to appear in all Australian courts and tribunals including regional and remote locations across New South Wales and interstate. Prior to being called to the Bar, Eugene was a Solicitor Advocate at Legal Aid NSW and an accredited specialist in criminal law.
