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Friday 05 February 2010
Do You Need CPD Points? The CPD year ends on March 31 2010. Pursuant to the CPD Rules, each barrister must earn at least 10 points in the specified fields. You may attend a CPD seminar, borrow a seminar DVD from the Bar Office or download a seminar podcast from the website. Contact Miriam Sved if you need your on-line access details: miriam.sved@vicbar.com.au or 9225 7943.

If you need to earn more points in the ‘Ethics and Professional Responsibility’ field, you can download or borrow any of the past seminars listed here.
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Thursday 04 February 2010
Latest Edition of 'In Brief' Edition 461 of 'In Brief' is now available.
The deadline for submission of notices for the next edition is 5:00 pm, Tuesday 9 February 2010.
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Thursday 04 February 2010
Link for Bar Members to Department of Justice Criminal and Evidence Resources This link will take you to Department of Justice resources such as:
  • The Evidence Act Ready Reckoner
  • Criminal Procedure Ready Reckoner and Reverse Ready Reckoner &
  • Criminal Procedure Act Information Sheets
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Wednesday 03 February 2010
County Court Practice Note The County Court has issued the following Practice Note:
Commercial List Banking and Finance Cases Division

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Wednesday 03 February 2010
Judicial College of Victoria Evidence Knowledge Test Now the Evidence Act 2008 has commenced, try the JCV’s new Evidence Knowledge Test No. 2 – a multiple-choice scenario with questions on relevance, opinion evidence, and the discretions. Like the College’s Evidence Knowledge Test No. 1, which highlighted hearsay and tendency/coincidence, the test provides practical explanations of right and wrong answers.

Just click on this link to have a go at Test No. 2!
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Wednesday 27 January 2010
Australia Day Honours The Bar congratulates the following recipients of Australia Day Honours: more
 
 

From the Chairman
14/12/2009
Farewell - His Honour Judge Stuart Campbell from the County Court of Victoria On behalf of the Victorian Bar, the Senior Vice-Chairman Mark Moshinsky S.C. farewelled his Honour Judge Stuart Campbell from the County Court of Victoria. Download (19 KBytes)
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Latest Bar Submission
19/11/2009
Federal/State Funding Arrangements for Legal Aid The National Human Rights Consultation Committee reported that "many submissions raised the need to improve access to legal representation, particularly by increasing funding to legal aid and community legal centres... The Committee was surprised by the extent of concern about access to justice throughout Australia."

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Thursday 11 February 2010
The Crowns Position on Sentence
Speaker: Chief Crown Prosecutor, Gavin Silbert S.C. and Associate Crown Prosecutor, Brett Sonnett The seminar will explain the role expected of prosecutors in advising the court as to the prosecution's attitude to sentence...  more
Monday 15 February 2010
Educating Barristers in the operation of VLA's Roundtable Dispute Management program
Speaker: Walter Ibbs, Manager, Roundtable Dispute Management, VLA ...  more
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