Domestic and Family Violence Conference This conference will be held on 9 November at The University of Sydney Law School A one day conference of academic researchers and community professionals who are working to improve our understanding of and responses to Domestic and Family Violence. This conference has been initiated by the Sydney Institute of […]
2023 Criminal Law CPD Series:Digital vulnerability: Vulnerable individuals and remote access technologies in justice Ethics & professional responsibility Professional skills Practice Management CPD Points: 1.5 About This seminar will focus on the use of remote access technologies, such as audiovisual links, when working with vulnerable individuals in the justice system, and the developing concept of […]
2023-24 Criminal Law CPD Series:Vulnerable witness advocacy Professional skills Ethics & professional responsibility CPD Points: 1.5 About This seminar will discuss the definition of a vulnerable witness in the Criminal Procedure Act 1986 (NSW) and the provisions in the Act that allow for the use of pre-recorded evidence and provide for other alternative means of giving evidence. The […]
2023 Criminal Law CPD Series:Non-consensual sexual offence law reform in Western Australia Substantive Law CPD Points: 1.5 About The Attorney-General of Western Australia has asked that State’s Law Reform Commission to review Western Australia’s sexual offence laws. On 23 December 2022, the Commission published a Discussion Paper that deals with, among other things, the law […]
Domestic and Family Violence Conference This conference will be held on 9 November at The University of Sydney Law School A one day conference of academic researchers and community professionals who are working to improve our understanding of and response to Domestic and Family Violence. This conference has been initiated by the Sydney Institute of […]
Online event: In Conversation with Distinguished University Professor and Professor of Law (Emerita) Julie Macfarlane Wednesday 28 July, 9 – 10.30am  About the event Sydney Law School in collaboration with Insight Exchange invite you to a virtual event about responses to domestic, family and sexualised violence. The event will feature Distinguished University Professor and […]
Neurotechnology, Criminal Law and Human Rights: Interdisciplinary PerspectivesWhat kind of human rights challenges might emerge from neurotechnology and how might these challenges play out in criminal justice? This event will address these questions. Investment from companies such as Elon Musk’s Neuralink, Facebook and a host of others gives reason to take seriously the possibility that […]
Pandemic Policing: Sydney Institute of Criminology panel discussionTHIS EVENT IS BEING HELD ONLINE AND IN-PERSON AT SYDNEY LAW SCHOOL With the World Health Organisation’s declaration of the Covid-19 pandemic in March 2020, emergency health orders were introduced to contain the spreading contagion. Central to this aim was the restriction of social movement and gatherings enforced […]
2022 Paul Byrne Memorial Lecture: They’re all good cases: Paul Byrne SCDelivered by Justice Peter Hamill Paul Byrne was one of Justice Peter Hamill’s most important mentors. His Honour thought he would use the opportunity, at what would have been, but for Covid, the tenth anniversary of the establishment of the Paul Byrne SC Memorial […]
Book launch: Gender and International Criminal LawSydney Centre for International Law is excited to host a panel on the new book ‘Gender and International Criminal Law’ (Oxford University Press 2022), edited by Indira Rosenthal, Valerie Oosterveld, and Susana SáCouto. In this panel, participants will hear from some of the book’s Australian authors and participate in […]
2022-23 Criminal Law CPD Series:Should Deceptive Sex Always Be Rape? Substantive Law CPD Points: 1.5 About It is common for people to deceive other people into engaging in sexual activity with them. But there is sharp division about whether all such deceitful people should be convicted of a sexual offence and, if all or some […]
