Friday, 13 March 2026
Description
Attend and earn 0.5 CPD unit in Professional Skills
This program is based on NSW legislation
Chair
Ian Lloyd KC, Trust Chambers; Recommended Criminal Law Senior Counsel, Doyle’s Guide 2025
Professional Skills
Cross-Examination: Opposing Approaches
Gain expert insight from a defence lawyer and a prosecutor to highlight differences in approaches to cross-examination.
- Preparing for cross-examination, and what to do when you can’t prepare cross-examination
- Identifying topics and order of cross-examination
- Avoiding objections and disruption to your flow
- Difficult or combative witnesses
- Tips and tricks to have in your toolkit
Presented by Trudie Cameron, Principal Lawyer, Armstrong Legal and Stu Coote, Lawyer and Police Prosecutor, NSW Police Force
Presenters
Stu Coote, Lawyer and Police Prosecutor, NSW Police Force
Stuart Coote is a New South Wales Police Prosector with over 15 years of court advocacy experience. As a prosecutor Stuart has run countless matters before the Local Court. This role has provided Stuart with critical insight into what makes for effective advocacy from either end of the bar table.
Trudie Cameron, Principal Lawyer, Armstrong Legal
Trudie Cameron is the Practice Director of Criminal Law (NSW) at Armstrong Legal. This role sees her responsible for supervising and managing the New South Wales Criminal Law team in addition to running her own practice. Trudie is an accredited specialist in criminal law, practising exclusively in criminal and traffic law. Trudie appears regularly in Local and District Courts in matters ranging from sentencing, defended hearings and severity and/or conviction appeals. Trudie has appeared as an instructing solicitor in the Supreme Court of New South Wales, New South Wales Court of Criminal Appeal and the High Court.
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.
