Past Events

Understanding the verdins principles: what do judges want?

  • Crawford School of Public Policy
  • 14 Dec 2017
  • 8:30 PM – 10:30 PM
  • Past Event

Sentencing of mentally disordered offenders raises unique challenges for the Criminal Justice Sys... More Details

Mental health professionals as agents of social control

  • Graduate House
  • 12 Dec 2017
  • 8:30 PM – 10:30 PM
  • Past Event

The intersection of law and mental health raises complex issues. The justice system relies on the... More Details

Psychological impact of legal & forensic work: Managing exposure to vicarious trauma

  • Commonwealth Law Courts Building
  • 26 Oct 2017
  • 8:30 PM – 10:30 PM
  • Past Event

The Victorian ANZAPPL Committee warmly invites all to our 2017 Annual Lecture. Speaker Just... More Details

Symposium: Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder: Prevalence, features and assessment

  • Rydges South Bank Brisbane
  • 13 Oct 2017
  • 3:00 PM – 9:00 PM
  • Past Event

In 1973, the term Fetal Alcohol Syndrome was first used to describe the characteristic facial ano... More Details

Ice use in Queensland - responding to the challenges

  • United Service Club Queensland
  • 11 Aug 2017
  • 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM
  • Past Event

RANZCP Qld Faculty of Forensic Psychiatry & ANZAPPL Qld Branch Dinner Meeting ‘Ice’ (crystal m... More Details

Workshop: Fitness for trial in the Magistrates Court

  • Legal Aid
  • 18 Jul 2017
  • 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM
  • Past Event

The Mental Health Act 2016 (Queensland) commenced in March 2017. It allows Magistrates to resolve... More Details

Symposium: Mental health, extremism and lone-actor grievance-fuelled violence

  • Rydges South Bank Brisbane
  • 08 Apr 2017 11:00 AM – 09 Apr 2017 7:00 PM
  • Past Event

As radicalisation and recruitment of Australians appears to be increasing and violent extremists ... More Details

Fitness to plead: Expert evidence and the law

  • Crawford School of Public Policy
  • 04 Mar 2017
  • 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM
  • Past Event

Fitness to plead raises unique challenges in our court system and for expert witnesses. In thi... More Details

Extremist violence risk assessment: current developments, future challenges

  • Crawford School of Public Policy
  • 21 Dec 2016
  • 8:30 PM – 9:30 PM
  • Past Event

Since 2007 John Flockton has worked with Corrective Services NSW as Clinical Director/Senior Spec... More Details

Disorder in the courtroom: Child witnesses under cross-examination 

  • UQ - School of Psychology
  • 11 Oct 2016
  • 9:00 PM – 11:00 PM
  • Past Event

Cross-examination of child witnesses is often described as a “how not to” of child interviewing b... More Details

Development into delinquency: neuropsychological pathways to… jail or freedom!

  • East Fremantle Yacht Club
  • 07 Sep 2016
  • 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM
  • Past Event

Presenter: Associate Professor Warrick Brewer, Consultant Neuropsychologist Objectives of this... More Details

People who access indecent images of children: What risk do they pose?

  • Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University, South Bank Campus
  • 18 Aug 2016
  • 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM
  • Past Event

Technology means that many people are accessing indecent images of children. This poses a challen... More Details

Age old issues, new ACT laws: mental impairment and diminished responsibility law and clinical pathways in 2016

  • Hedley Bull Building
  • 16 Jul 2016
  • 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM
  • Past Event

Speakers/panel: Shane Drumgold, Assistant Director, Office of the Director of Public Prosecuti... More Details

Evidence, policy and practice in family violence

  • Anthony Low Building
  • 26 Apr 2016
  • 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
  • Past Event

The combination of decades of advocacy by women's organisations and a number of high profile case... More Details

Domestic violence and the law

  • 23 Mar 2016
  • 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM
  • Past Event

Lawyer Shirley McMurdo will present on her new affordable legal service for victims of domestic v... More Details