Friday, 13 March 2026
Bail and Sentencing Issues for Clients on Visas or Offshore
- Finalising matters for clients overseas who can’t get a visa to come back eg warrants, s14 applications, sentencing
- Considerations re bail applications when client on a visa
- Cancellation of visa on ‘charges’ alone
- Permanent residence and ‘Cinderella’
- Important for criminal lawyers because they should:
- Know about VEVO
- Ask EVERY client if they have an Au passport and if not do a VEVO check with their consent
- Know exactly what visa the client is ON eg permanent, tourist etc
- Know about Cinderella and explain to client in case they leave and can’t come back to face criminal charges
- Deal with their criminal matter accordingly
Presented by Kim Hunter, Criminal Defence & Immigration Lawyer, Accredited Specialist Immigration Law, Hunter Flood Lawyers
Description
Attend and earn 0.5 CPD unit in Substantive Law
This program is based on NSW legislation
Chair
Ian Lloyd KC, Trust Chambers; Recommended Criminal Law Senior Counsel, Doyle’s Guide 2025
Presenters
Kim Hunter, Criminal Defence & Immigration Lawyer, Accredited Specialist Immigration Law, Hunter Flood LawyersKim Hunter is a criminal defence and immigration lawyer as well as an Accredited Specialist in Immigration Law from Hunter Flood Lawyers in Sydney. Kim has a law degree, 3 first places in law exams (Criminal law, evidence & succession), second place in Constitutional Law and 2 Butterworths Law prizes. Kim Has always had her own private law practice and since becoming an Accredited Specialist in Immigration Law now only practices in criminal defence and complex immigration matters. Kim has formerly lectured in post graduate law at Australian National University and regularly lectures for the Law Society of NSW, Legal Aid and various other professional bodies and organisations including the MIA and Law Council of Australia. Kim is on an expert panel for a research project led by Prof Alison Gerard and funded by the Australian Research Council, being undertaken by leading Professors from Charles Sturt, Flinders and Monash universities in Australia and Oxford University in the UK on the topic of ‘Crimmigration’ – the intersection of criminal and immigration laws in Australia.
Ian Lloyd KC, Barrister, Trust Chambers
Ian 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.
