Staying afloat and navigating homeward: Practical tips from the Bench on Advocacy in the Local Court [2005] NSWLC 13

Local Court of New South Wales

CITATION: Staying afloat and navigating homeward: Practical tips from the Bench on Advocacy in the Local Court [2005] NSWLC 13 JURISDICTION: PARTIES: A paper for the LexisNexis Conference on Criminal Law and Advocacy Sydney 12 August 2005 FILE NUMBER: PLACE OF HEARING: Sydney DATE OF DECISION: MAGISTRATE: Magistrate H Dillon CATCHWORDS: Preparation - Elements of the Offence - Anticipate the issues - Evidence Act - Procedural Rules - Professional Rules - Basic rules of Court etiquette - Cross Examination - Expert Evidence - Pleas - Contrition - Rehabilitation - References and Testimonials - Courtes to the Judge NSW Bar Rules 21 - 31 LEGISLATION CITED: NSW Bar Rules 51 - 58 Solicitors Rule 19 Evidence Act s 76 s 79 s 43 s 60 Sir Owen Dixon 'Jesting Pilate' Law Book Co, Sydney 1965 Gilbertm, The Oxford Book of Legal Anecdotes Oxford 1989 Lord Alexander of Weedon QC "The Art of Advocacy", Bar News Summer 1991 Jonathan Harr 'A Civil Action' Random House, New York, 1995 CASES CITED: John Coombs QC "Advocacy: Tact in action" in Anthony Young The Advocates Notebook, Prospect Books, Sydney 1997 Aristotle The Poetics Chapter 7 "The Scope of the Plot". GPI Leisure v Herdsman Investments P/L (No 3) [1990] 20 NSWLR 15 LMI v Baulderstone (2001) 53 NSWLR 31 HG v The Queen (1999) 197 CLR 414 REPRESENTATION: ORDERS:

27 Staying afloat and navigating homeward: Practical tips from the Bench on Advocacy in the Local Court By Magistrate Hugh Dillon, NSW Local Court