Training and Continuing Professional Development

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Professionals

Providing in-house and external training sessions on a variety of topics

• In-house CPD sessions for your legal team
• Begin your trial preparation from the first interview
• “No mere mouth piece” - Seeing beyond the clients narrative
• Digital evidence: more than a text message screenshot
• Squeezing evidence out of the other side in court. How to assess whether a case is suitable for seeking an order against the other side that they cough up their digital evidence: What to ask for and how to frame appropriate orders for the handover of a witnesses devices
• You’ve got the digital evidence: now what do you do with it?
• Getting past the fear of social media: helping people understand how best to marshall social media evidence
• The use of digital evidence in: stalking, testator family maintenance claims and personal injuries cases etc
• Giving you techniques to help judges understand the digital evidence that you are presenting in a straightforward, simple, and persuasive way
• “Closing the gates” on witnesses - marshalling evidence that will corral the other sides witnesses into positions helpful to your client
• Proper preparation of affidavit material

If you’d like to stay informed on what is coming up, simply contact us and ask to be added to our mailing list.

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Community Services

Are you a community legal service or other organisation supporting vulnerable parties in Family Law matters? Contact us to discuss our group workshops for your clients.

We cover:

• Witness Preparation 101
• The roles of different professionals
• Being a witness and what it means
• How to give evidence
• Non-specific cross-examination role-plays to provide an essential experience of what to expect, in a safe, non-threatening group environment
• How a witnesses conduct can destroy their credibility and case
• How not to be “THAT” witness
• Presentation, demeanour and how to behave whilst in court
• Why and when “loose lips sink ships”

Our community education programs are usually done on a pro-bono basis to support the vulnerable who would otherwise be disadvantaged in the Family Law system.

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Conferences

Regularly scheduled CPD events and conferences are held within Australia and overseas.

Vietnam - Ho Chi Minh - 18-25 August 2018

Sri Lanka - Colombo - October 2018

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We love spreading the word and educating professionals on the benefits of having properly prepared witnesses and cases, and would love to share our knowledge and enthusiasm with you and your audience.