This episode we’ll finish discussing the Jury Directions Act 2015 (Vic) by looking at the evidential directions, finishing up with general directions. No notes this episode, you’ll just need the Act in front of you. As always, we’re helped out by the discussion published by the Judicial College of Victoria, and the best resource for a Jury Directions Act conversation is the criminal charge book. In out next episode, we’ll start discussing the Sentencing Act in our penultimate discussion on criminal procedure, leaving only civil procedure to go.
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...
Today we tackle the last of the evidentiary privileges - client legal privilege, before moving into the tricky rules of admissibility of credibility evidence....
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...