Past Events

THE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF FORENSIC STUDIES

2007

Medico Legal Conference
7-12 January - Cortina

Psychologists' Workshop
14 February

Lecture and Moot Court for Psychology Doctorate Students
24 February

Melbourne University Advocacy Course (Semester 1)
February - May

Law Institute of Victoria Advocacy Lecture
8 March

County Court Associates Advocacy Workshops
9 March - 16 May

Federal Magistrates Court Induction
29-30 March, Sydney

IRR Executive Development, Expert Witness Workshop
30 April, Sydney

Hanover Lecture
2 May

Police Prosecutors Workshop
29 May

University of Western Australia Teacher Training
10 July, Perth

University of Western Australia Trial Practice & Advocacy
11-13 July, Perth

Melbourne University Advocacy, Semester 2
July - October

Adelaide Magistrates Court Craft Presentation
27 July, Adelaide

Melbourne High Talk
30 July

7, 20-21 August
Minters Advocacy, Melbourne

9 August
Phoenix Magistrates Program, Gold Coast

14 August
Legal Education Committee Meeting

23 August
IRR Executive Development, Expert Witness Workshop, Brisbane

3, 10-11 September
Victorian Bar Readers, Melbourne

5, 12, 17 September
Youth & Substance Abuse Service: Court Skills & Process Workshop, Melbourne

18 September
Victorian Police Prosecutors Workshop, Melbourne

10 October
UNSW Expert Witness Workshop, Melbourne

15 October
AAI - NRMAWorkshop, Sydney

2 - 7 December
AAI - Advocacy & Investigation Workshop for Securities and Futures Commission, Hong Kong

11  December
AAI - NRMA Workshop, Sydney

12 December
Monash Professional Workshop, Melbourne

2006

Medico Legal Conference
8-15 January - Cortina Italy

Police Prosecutors Training
22 February

Vic Bar Readers Course
1/8/14 March

Lecture, Leo Cussen Institute
5 April

Expert Training workshop -
JobCo Employment Services
1 May

Camberwell High Grammer
Mock Trial
14 June

Unisearch Expert Witness Training
8 August

National Judicial College
15 August - Gold Coast

WA Bar
18/19 August - Perth

IIR Executive
Expert witness training
31 August - Sydney

Vic Bar Readers course
4/13/15/18 September

Unisearch Expert Witness Training
6 September

IIR Executive
Expert witness training
7 September  - Brisbane

University of WA
Trial Practice and Advocacy undergraduate course
11/12 September

Police Prosecutors Training
14 September

NSW Young Lawyers - Advocacy presentation
16 September

Sir Harry Gibbs Moot
1 October

Minters
In conjunction with the AAI
3 /9 / 10 October

Taxation office workshop
11/12 October - Sydney
In conjunction with the AAI

Unisearch Expert Witness Training
Australian Institute of Quantity Surveyors
15 November

Federal Magistrates conference
1 December - Sydney

Advocacy Training -  AAI
4-8 December - Hong Kong

2005

Paper on Expert Evidence - Medico Legal Conference  Cortina
13 January

Advocacy workshops for the English Bar
24 - 27 January - London

Teacher training workshop - South African Bar
28 - 30 January

Training for RANZOG
4 February - Melbourne

Evans & Peck
Expert Evidence Workshop
17-19 February

Vis Moot Training
2/10 March

Readers Bar Course
3/9/15 March - Melbourne

Experts Witness Training - Accountants
18 March - Sydney

Police Prosecutors workshop
22 March

Professional Services Review (PSR)
Medical Workshops
2/3 April

RSM Bird Cameron
Training Session - Accountants
8 April

Training for RANZCOG
11 April - Melbourne

AAI workshop (DOCS)
18/19 April

Lecture - Sentencing
for Richard Fox
26 April

Judicial training
NJCA Phoenix Magistrates Program
10-11 May  WA

Training for RANZCOG
12 May - Adelaide

Hanover Lecture - Appellate Advocacy
19 May

Advocacy Training - AAI
21 May - 28 May - Hong Kong

Readers Bar Course Teacher Training
30 May - Perth

International Academy of Law and Mental Health
6 - 8 July - Paris Congress

Training for RANZCOG
19 July - Hobart

Jessup Moot Training
10 August

WA Bar - Readers Course
19/20 August -  Perth

Vic Bar Readers Course
1/2/6/8 September

Police Prosecutors training
7 September

Evans & Peck
Expert Evidence Workshop
18-20 September

Symposium - The role of professions in a just society
25- 30 September - Mykonos

Expert Evidence IIFS Conference
16-19 October

Expert Witness Training for Unisearch
17 November - Sydney

Expert Evidence Workshop
Ferrier Hodgson
21/22 November - Sydney

Expert Witness and Advocacy Training
Securities and Futures Commission
5-10 December - Hong Kong

Expert Evidence workshop
PPB
15/16 December - Melbourne

2004

Forensic Skills Workshop
18-19 October 2004
Monash Law Chambers, 472 Bourke Street, Melbourne

Expert Witness Training
29 October 2004
Monash Law Chambers, 472 Bourke Street, Melbourne

2003

 2nd International Conference and Workshop :
"Avoiding Disaster: Engineering, Technology & the Law"
7-10 October 2003
Prato, Tuscany

Papers

" Dr Max Lay What should reasonably be expected? 
" Ross Ray QC / Jonathan Clough Industrial manslaughter 
" Professor Clive Chirwa Accident causation, Reconstruction & Litigation: aircraft & rail vehicle experience 
" Professor Raphael Grzebieta Initial response 
" Professor Brian Uy Preparation of brief for the Coroner - Discovery Phase
" Graeme Johnstone The Coroner - 'speaking for the dead to protect the living'
" Donald Slavik Lawyers choosing and instructing experts
" Mark Dohrmann AM Experts' reports - Report preparation for engineers assisting in litigation
" Professor Murray Mackay OBE Preparation for trial

Professional Services Review Tribunals

Felicity Hampel QC assisted by Professor The Hon. George Hampel QC conducted the following workshops for the Professional Services Review Tribunals:

Queensland 21 - 23 September 2002
Victoria 5 - 7 October 2002
South Australia 26 - 28 October 2002
New South Wales 16 - 18 November 2002

Unisearch - Sydney
Professor The Hon. George Hampel and Hugh Selby conducted workshops for expert witnesses. Organised by Unisearch on 11 Sep and 8 Nov 2002.

2002

Inaugural Conference
Expert Evidence: Causation, Proof & Presentation
2 - 5 July, 2002
Prato, Tuscany

2001

February 2001 - Bali
Professor The Hon. George Hampel AM QC and Judge Felicity Hampel QC presented a seminar on Ecpert Evdence at Baker and McKenzie south East Asian Regional Conference.
 
March 2001 - Sydney
Professor The Hon. George Hampel QC, Dr Freckleton and Hugh Selby presented a trial exercise for forensic accountants at the Institute of Chartered Accountants Conference.

May 2001 - Canberra
Professor The Hon. George Hampel QC, Hugh Selby, Graeme Blank and Elizabeth Brimer conducted a workshop for the Australian Federal Police Forensic Scientists in conferencing, report preparation and presentation of evidence.

27 June 2001 - Melbourne
Professor The Hon. George Hampel QC delivered a lecture to the Corporate Crime Liaison Group.

18 July 2001 - Melbourne
Institute was formally launched by its Patron the Hon Justice Michael Kirby AC, CMG. This event was sponsored by Mallesons Stephen Jacques.

Professor Stephen Parker, Dean of Monash Law, Professor Ian Freckelton, Vice President of IIFS, Associate Professor Bernadette McSherry, IIFS Director of Research, The Hon Justice Michael Kirby AC, CMG, and Professor The Hon. George Hampel QC, IIFS Director.

27 July 2001 - Sydney
Professor The Hon. George Hampel QC, Hugh Selby and Carolyn Davenport conducted a symposium for a variety of experts, organised by Unisearch. This was hosted by Abbott Tout Solicitors.
On the same day Abbott Tout hosted the Sydney launch of the Institute by Justice Kirby.

9 - 12 August 2001 - Bali
Professor The Hon. George Hampel QC and Felicity Hampel QC conducted a workshop at the Regional Meeting of Baker and McKenzie on Case Management.

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