During the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, the administration of justice and essential services of courts continued through the increased use of communication technologies. The shift to digital or virtual justice in both civil and criminal jurisdictions accelerated with varying degrees of success. This webinar will examine recent case law that:
- draws out the different experiences of civil and criminal courts from the perspectives of the judiciary, lawyers, parties and witnesses;
- highlights the implications for remote witnesses; and
- reveals the impact and challenges of digital or virtual justice on cross-examination, demeanour and credibility.
This webinar will assist legal practitioners in preparing for remote matters and dealing with courtroom technologies.
Presenter
Dr Carolyn McKay is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Sydney Law School where she teaches Criminal Law, Civil & Criminal Procedure and Digital Criminology. She is CoDirector of the Sydney Institute of Criminology. Carolyn is recognised for her research into technologies in justice, specifically her empirical research into prisoners’ experiences of accessing justice from a custodial situation by audio visual links, published in her monograph,The Pixelated Prisoner: Prison video links, court ‘appearance’ and the justice matrix (2018) Routledge. During the period July 2021 – June 2024, Carolyn will undertake her ARC Discovery Early Career Research Award (DECRA) ‘The Digital Criminal Justice Project: Vulnerability and the Digital Subject’. Carolyn serves on the NSW Bar Association Innovation & Technology Committee and served on the 2019 NSW Law Society Legal Technologies Committee. She has been a Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford 2019 and for 3 months at the Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Spain 2013-14. Carolyn has previously consulted on anti-dumping trade disputes and indirect taxation, working in both Sydney and Tokyo, and she also has a digital media/visual arts practice.
Registration
Full series (7 webinars) = $300
Individual webinar(s) = $50
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This webinar will be released on Wednesday 28 July.
You will receive a webinar link on this date, and can also register at a later date to catch up in your own time.
About the series
This new 2021 Criminal Law CPD series, presented by the Sydney Institute of Criminology is made up of 7 webinars. Topics include: criminal behaviour in the digital age, consent and culpability in sex cases involving adults, irreducible life sentences, preventive detention; and neurotechnology and the criminal law.
You can register for the full series or individual webinar(s) and catch up on demand. Webinars will be presented by experts from Sydney Law School.
