Head to the Bar

This episode we’ll continue discussing the Criminal Procedure Act, starting with appeals from superior court decisions, including interlocutory appeals, and cases stated. We then move onto an introduction to the Bail Act 1977 (Vic). As always, we’re helped out by the discussion published by the Judicial College of Victoria, starting here for appeals and cases stated, and here for bail. In out next episode, we’ll finish up bail and introduce the Jury Directions Act 2015 (Vic).

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This episode we’ll continue discussing the Criminal Procedure Act. We’ll start with committal proceedings, and then move onto Victorian Criminal trial procedure. As always, we’re helped out by the discussion published by the Judicial College of Victoria, starting here for committal procedure, and here for trial procedure. In out next episode, we’ll move onto appeals from superior court decisions, and the first part of our bail discussion.

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This episode we’ll start looking at Victorian Criminal Procedure and the provisions of the Criminal Procedure Act. We start with commencing criminal proceedings, moving onto summary procedure, and then wrap up with the appeals available from decisions of the Magistrates’ Court. As always, we’re helped out by the discussion published by the Judicial College of Victoria, starting here for summary procedure, and here for appeals. In out next episode, we’ll move onto committal procedure, and trials on indictment.

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This episode we’ll wrap up the relevant ethical principles that apply to barristers, looking at Part 5.4 of Schedule 1 of the Legal Profession Uniform Law Application Act 2014, which relates to disciplinary matters, and the overarching obligations in the Civil Procedure Act 2010. In out next episode, we’ll start looking at criminal procedure, focusing on initiation of matters, and summary procedure.

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With the law of evidence now done and dusted, it’s time to switch to a new topic. This episode we’ll start to discuss the the ethical principles that apply to barristers. In discussion one of two, let’s take a look at the Legal Profession Uniform Conduct (Barristers) Rules 2015. In out next episode, our second and final ethics chat.

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It’s time to transition from looking at the evidentiary rules and principles, to considering how to attempt past exams. This episode we’ll review the rules of evidence that we’ve discussed, with a special emphasis on approaching legal problem solving. There is also a guest appearance by a very loud bird in the background. In our next episode, we’ll move on, at last, to ethics.

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You’ll find past exams published by the Vicbar (and suggested answers) here.

In our very last substantive evidence discussion, we chat about the principles of admissibility, and exclusion, of hearsay evidence. In our next episode, we’ll revisit and review each of those evidentiary rules in readiness for past exam problem solving.You can find the notes, and other resources, here.

The Judicial College of Victoria provides an absolute wealth of resources for the principles governing the admissibility and exclusionary rules relating to hearsay starting here.

Today, we chat about the principles of admissibility, and exclusion, of admissions and unlawfully or improperly obtained real evidence. In our next episode, our very last deep dig into evidence, will look at the hearsay rule and its many exceptions.

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The Judicial College of Victoria provides an absolute wealth of resources for the principles governing the admissibility and exclusionary rules relating to admissions starting here. The resources relating to discretionary exclusion of illegally or improperly obtained admissions and real evidence starts here.

Let’s shift to topics that don’t require quite the same level of heavy lifting that we’ve become used to. Today, we’ll look at identification evidence and opinion evidence, including the related topic of expert evidence. In our next episode we'll be looking at admissions, and exclusion.

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The Judicial College of Victoria provides an absolute wealth of resources for the principles governing admissibility of identification evidence starting here, of opinion evidence starting here, and the related topic, expert evidence.

Often considered one of the trickier areas of evidence law, today we will look at the principles of admissibility and exclusion of tendency and coincidence evidence. In our next episode, we'll turn to identification evidence, and opinion and expert evidence.

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The Judicial College of Victoria provides an absolute wealth of resources for the principles governing admissibility and exclusion of tendency evidence and coincidence evidence starting here. The use of tendence reasoning in criminal trials is also discussed here, and then here for coincidence reasoning.