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SYMPOSIUM TO CELEBRATE
THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE NSW EVIDENCE ACT 1995
Saturday, 13 June 2015
Banco Court, Supreme Court of New South Wales, Queen’s Square, Sydney
9.00 – 9.15
Welcome
The Attorney General of NSW
9.15 – 9.45
Opening Speech
The Hon TF Bathurst AC, Chief Justice of NSW
Uniform Evidence legislation in Intermediate Courts of Appeal
The Hon Justice MJ Leeming
Developments in tendency and coincidence evidence
The Hon Justice MJ Beazley AO (President of the Court of Appeal, NSW)
Morning tea
9.45 – 10.15
10.15 – 10.45
10.45 – 11.15
11.15 – 11.45
11.45 – 12.15
12.15 – 12.45
12.45 – 1.45
The heuristics at the heart of tendency reasoning: what the UEA can’t
fix
Associate Professor Annie Cossins (UNSW)
Expert Evidence: science and the UEA
Professor Gary Edmond (UNSW)
The UEA and identification evidence
Mehera San Roque (UNSW)
Lunch (outside venue)
1.45 – 2.15
Relationship evidence under the UEA
Sally Dowling SC
2.15 – 2.45
The Victorian View on reliability of evidence: the judge or the jury?
The Hon Justice C Maxwell (President of the Court of Appeal, Victoria)
2.45 – 3.15
The NSW View on reliability of evidence: the judge or the jury?
The Hon Justice J Basten
Afternoon tea
3.15 – 3.45
3.45 – 4.15
4.15 – 4.45
4.45 – 5.00
5.30
Striking the balance between the prosecution and defence—a judicial
perspective
The Hon Justice EL Fullerton
Striking the balance between prosecution and defence – Uniform
Evidence Law now and in the future
Stephen Odgers SC
Questions and closing
CONFERENCE DINNER
To be determined