Experts and Lawyers: Keynote speakers

Professor the Hon. George Hampel QC

Professor Hampel was a barrister for 25 years and then a Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria from 1983 to 2000. He is currently a Professor of Trial Practice and Advocacy at Monash University and the Founding Chairman of the Australian Advocacy Institute. He is also president of the International Institute of Forensic Studies. He has been chair of a number of legal educational bodies, with special interest in the handling of expert evidence. His advocacy and expert witness training experience extends over 30 years.

Professor Ian Freckelton

Professor Freckelton is a barrister in Melbourne, specialising in medico-legal cases, criminal law, compensation law and administrative law. He holds honorary appointments as a professor at Monash University in law, forensic medicine and forensic psychology. Ian is the lawyer member of Victoria’s Medical Practitioners Board and Psychologists Registration Board and a member of Victoria’s Mental Health Review Board. He is the vice-president of the International Institute of Forensic Studies and the Victorian president-elect of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, of which he is a life member.

Professor Raphael Grzebieta

Raphael is a founding partner and Principal of DVExperts International (DVE), a Forensic Engineering Solutions Company, established for the purpose of bringing together several of Australia’s leading engineering and injury experts. Raphael has carried out numerous accident reconstruction analyses and has acted as an expert for insurance companies, legal firms, and for criminal and Coronial inquests. Raphael is also an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at Monash University and heads up the Road-Safety & Crashworthiness research team in the Engineering faculty at Monash. He has published over 120 papers in structural crashworthiness research, accident investigation, failure analysis, numerical modelling and experimental crash testing. He is also a member of a number of road safety, editorial and standards committees and is currently President of the Australasian College of Road Safety.

Judge Felicity Hampel SC

Judge Hampel is a judge of the Victorian County Court. Prior to this, she was a barrister for 24 years, specialising in criminal, administrative and human rights law. She is an internationally experienced teacher of advocacy and expert witness training and a board member and senior teacher with the Australian Advocacy Institute. Judge Hampel is a member of the steering committee of the International Institute of Forensic Studies, an adjunct professor at Monash University and instructor of members of tribunals. She is the former president of the Victorian Council of Civil Liberties and a member of the Victorian Law Reform Commission.

Professor Gabriel Kune

Professor Kune is Emeritus Professor of Surgery at the University of Melbourne and a consultant surgeon at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. He has had 40 years experience in abdominal and cancer surgery, as well as research related to gastrointestinal disease, cancer cause and prevention. He has extensive medico-legal experience relating to injuries, surgical conditions and cancer causation and treatment. Professor Kune is a past Hunterian Professor of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and of other learned societies. He has provided expert evidence for 25 years on various medico-legal issues in Australian courts and tribunals.

Randall Kune

Randall is a member of the Victorian Bar and coordinator of the Graduate Certificate in Forensic Studies at Monash Law School. He helped develop the program in 2001 with the International Institute of Forensic Studies, teaching forensic skills to non-law professionals. He regularly teaches advocacy skills to undergraduate and postgraduate students at Monash University and to practising lawyers through the Australian Advocacy Institute. Randall’s focus within the International Institute of Forensic Studies has been to increase the understanding by lawyers and non-law professionals of each other’s roles and expectations in the justice system.

Ian McIntyre

Ian is a principal of Evans & Peck, an international management consultancy focusing on project delivery processes in a wide range of industries. Ian is a civil engineer by training, with a background in the management and engineering of large multi-disciplinary infrastructure projects with a major contractor. Ian has provided advisory services on a wide range of infrastructure, building and systems integration projects throughout Australia and South East Asia. He is an experienced expert witness on matters related to project delivery failures.

Professor James Ogloff

Professor Ogloff is the foundation professor of Clinical Forensic Psychology at Monash University and head of Psychology at the Victorian Institute of Forensic Mental Health. Prior to this, he was the University Endowed Professor of Law and Forensic Psychology at Simon Fraser University and Director of Mental Health Services, British Columbia Corrections. He is chair of the Australian Psychological Society College of Forensic Psychologists and president of the Victorian Branch of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law. In 2005 he received the award for Outstanding Teaching and Mentoring in the field of psychology and law from the American Psychology Law Society.

Andrew Ross

Andrew is chair of the Forensic Accounting Special Interest Group (FASIG) of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia (ICAA). The broad aims of the FASIG are to assist chartered accountants in maintaining high professional standards when acting as forensic accountants, and to promote a better understanding of the value of forensic accounting to those groups who rely on expert accountants. Andrew co-authored the ICAA's submission to the NSW Law Reform Commission's Inquiry on Expert Witnesses. He has also authored numerous articles on expert evidence and presents regularly on the topic. In his spare time he is a partner in Ernst & Young's forensic accounting group, and has given expert evidence in both state and federal courts.

Justice Kenneth Crispin

Justice Crispin has been a judge of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory since 1997 and President of the ACT Court of Appeal since 2001.  He was first admitted to the Bar in 1972 and first appointed as a Queens Counsel in 1988.  He was the ACT Director of Public Prosecutions during 1991-94 and President of the ACT Bar Association during 1996-97.  He was one of the counsel who appeared for Lindy and Michael Chamberlain at the Royal Commission into their convictions and during the next two decades was involved, as counsel or judge, in a number of other prominent cases in which expert evidence played a pivotal role.  In addition to his basic legal qualifications, he holds a PhD in ethics and has wide interests in contemporary ethical and social issues and law reform.

Murray Mcinnis

As a barrister he practised in a wide area of civil, administrative and commercial jurisdiction.  In addition he practised as a criminal trial barrister for approximately 10 years. 

As a Federal Magistrate His Honour sits in Melbourne and is mainly responsible for dealing with applications in the Court’s general federal law jurisdiction.  As a foundation member of the Court he served on the Rules Committee, Ethics Committee, Business Management and Information Committee and Pro Bono Committee.  He was the first Chairman of the Court’s Judgments Committee.  Since January 2001 he has been the Co-ordinating Federal Magistrate for the Perth registry of the Federal Magistrates Court.

Federal Magistrate McInnis is currently a member of the Australian Institute of Administrative Law (Victorian Chapter) and Intellectual Property Society of Australia and New Zealand Inc. Since 2001 His Honour has acted as a Judge for the United Nations Association (Victorian Branch) Annual Media Peace Awards.

Dr Jacqueline Horan

Dr Jacqueline Horan is a lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of Melbourne and member of the Victorian Bar.  Her main research interests are juries, advocacy and the Australian court system.  She has completed a PhD thesis on the civil jury system, has published articles and presented at international and local conferences on this topic.  Jacqueline co-ordinates the Law School's Advocacy program.  She trains students, legal practitioners and experts in courtroom performance as part of their continuing education at the Australian Advocacy Institute, Leo Cussen Institute, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and the Victorian Bar Readers Course.  As a member of the Bar, Jacqueline specialised in professional negligence and misconduct.  She was primarily briefed by disciplinary bodies such as the Legal Profession Tribunal, Victorian Lawyers RPA, the Dental Board of Victoria and the Medical Practitioners Board of Victoria.

Louise Anderson

Louise is the Native Title Registrar with the Federal Court of Australia, and has responsibility for the coordination and management of the Court's native title caseload.  Prior to her taking up the position with the Court in 1998 Louise worked at the National Native Title Tribunal and the Commonwealth Administrative Appeals Tribunal.  Papers delivered by Louise at previous conferences include 'Managing native title litigation', 'Native title case management in the Federal Court' and 'native title - an overview of the role of the Federal Court'.

Caroline Edwards

Caroline is the District Registrar of the Northern Territory Registry of the Federal Court of Australia; a position she has held for four years.  The District Registrar is responsible for managing the Registry, providing case management and other assistance to judges of the Court and the exercise of judge delegated functions.  Most of the Federal Court work in the Northern Territory is native title related and Caroline has been closely involved in native title case management initiatives especially in relation to the convening of compulsory conferences of expert anthropologists.  Caroline also worked for several years as a policy officer in the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet and briefly, the Attorney-General's Department, dealing primarily with indigenous affairs including native title.