Friday, 28 November 2025
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD unit in Professional Skills
This program is based on NSW legislation
Chair
Ian Lloyd KC, Trust Chambers
Professional Skills
Trial Strategy and Cross-Examination Techniques
- Gain practical strategies to guide cross-examination with precision
- Explore how to frame questions that confine a witness’s responses, deliver them to reduce opportunities for evasion, and organise facts effectively
- Gain practical techniques to keep evidence clear, concise, and persuasive
Presented by Kenneth Hall Averre MBE, Barrister, Forbes Chambers; On 19 November 2025, Kenneth Hall Averre MBE was officially appointed as a Judge of the District Court of New South Wales.
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.
Kenneth Hall Averre MBE, Barrister, Forbes Chambers
On 19 November 2025, Kenneth Hall Averre MBE was officially appointed as a Judge of the District Court of New South Wales. Kenneth Hall Averre MBE is a member of Forbes Chambers and practices predominantly in the area of criminal law. Kenneth appears at all stages of the criminal process including the Local Court, Children's Court, the District Court, the Supreme Court and in appeals to Court of Criminal Appeal NSW. He has appeared in appeals to the Full Court of the Federal Court (extradition) and on a special leave application to the High Court. Kenneth has advised on and appeared in numerous appeals against conviction and/or sentence in the Court of Criminal Appeal (NSW) ranging from murder to sex offences and he is also a member of the Specialist Barrister Panel (Complex Criminal Law) Panel, Legal Aid General Crime Panel and the Children's Crime Panel. Kenneth started his career as a solicitor working in a small largely criminal practice in England before leaving to work as a volunteer in the Solomon Islands in the office of the Public Solicitor. He was appointed as the Public Solicitor of Solomon Islands at the time of the Australian led intervention mission in 2003 before coming to the NSW bar.
