Speeches and Papers by Senior ODPP Officers

Director of Public Prosecutions and Deputy Directors

Date:	02 April 2011
Title:	Prosecution ethics and a commentary on the Guidelines of the New South Wales Director of Public Prosecutions
Event:	Delivered to LLM (Prosecutions) Course, University of Wollongong (Presenter - Acting Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions, New South Wales
Date:	26 February 2011
Title:	"Reforming the Criminal Justice System"
Event:	The Public Defender's Criminal Law Conference 2011
Date:	6 November 2010
Title:	The Rule of Law and a Director of Public Prosecutions
Event:	2010 Rule of Law in Australia Conference
Date:	2 July 2010
Title:	"The Law of the Ruler"
Event:	Australian and New Zealand Criminology Conference 2010
Date:	14 - 16 December 2009
Title:	Commonwealth Secretariat and International Association of Prosecutors
Event:	Pacific Islands Law Officers Network (PILON) Meeting
Date:	May 2009 (Updated November 2009)
Title:	Comments on Organisation/Association Legislation - "BIKIE GANGS"
Event:	GENERAL COMMENTARY
Date:	04 May 2009
Title:	The Rule of Law - Its Substance and Reach
Event:	Lecture for Foundations of Law, University of Sydney
Date:	06 February 2009
Title:	A Prosecutor's Views
Event:	Drug Court of NSW, 10th Anniversary Practitioners' Conference
Date:	09 December 2008
Title:	Human Rights and Prosecutors - Why and How?
Event:	14th Annual Prosecutors Conference, Fiji
Date:	08 December 2008
Title:	The Rule of Law - a General Introduction
Event:	14th Annual Prosecutors Conference, Fiji
Date:	28 August 2008
Title:	Emerging Trends in Cyber Crime
Event:	International Association of Prosecutors 13th Annual Conference, Singapore
Date:	5 May 2008
Title:	The Rule of Law and the Separation of Powers - Slogans or Substance?
Event:	University of Sydney, Law 1 - Foundations of Law
Date:	27 March 2008
Title:	Effectiveness of the Criminal Law
Event:	Legal Studies State Conference 2008
Date:	1 March 2008
Title:	The Power of Persuasion - Some Practical Lessons for the Solicitor Advocate
Event:	College of Law CLE Seminar: A Day of Criminal Law
Date:	1 March 2008
Title:	Recent Developments in Sentencing
Event:	NSW Young Lawyers Annual Criminal Law One Day Seminar
Date:	12 November 2007
Title:	The Duties of the Prosecutor
Event:	Industrial Law Committee, Federal Litigation Section, Law Council of Australia
Date:	04 May 2007
Title:	Recent Developments in Sentencing - 2
Event:	ODPP (NSW) Continuing Legal Education Session

Date:	19 March 2007
Title:	Use of Mules to Commit Fraud and Launder Money
Event:	Eighth Annual Pacific Fraud Summit
Date:	17 March 2007
Title:	Recent Developments in Sentencing Selected NSW Court of Criminal Appeal Sentencing Decisions
Event:	Young Lawyers Criminal Law Day, Bar Association Mini-conference, Sydney
Date:	6 March 2007
Title:	Frank and Fearless - MIA?
Event:	Sydney Chamber of Commerce, Legal Counsel Forume, Sydney
Date:	25-26 October 2006
Title:	Minimum Sentencing: The Australian Prosecutorial Experience
Event:	Prepared for Delivery at: OSF-SA Sentencing Conference, Cape Town, South Africa
Date:	22 October 2006
Title:	Tabloid Justice
Event:	Delivered at the 10th International Law Congress, Perth, WA
Date:	03 August 2006
Title:	Negotiating with the DPP
Event:	Legal Aid Commission of NSW Criminal Law Conference, Sydney.
Date:	20 July 2006
Title:	How Money Laundering Offences Are Prosecuted Under NSW Law
Event:	Anti-Money Laundering Forum and Workshops 2006
Date:	17 July 2006
Title:	Theory and Practice of the Rule of Law in a Modern Democracy
Event:	Public Meeting Sponsored by Newcastle Law Society and Newcastle Bar Association
Date:	04 July 2006
Title:	Guideline Judgments: It seemed like a good idea at the time
Event:	International Society For The Reform Of Criminal Law - 20TH International Conference
Date:	02 July 2006
Title:	Crime in the Community
Event:	NSW Teachers Federation Annual Conference
Date:	26 May 2006
Title:	Preparing and Presenting Evidence in Criminal Proceedings
Event:	Lexis Nexis Criminal Law and Advocacy Intensive, Sydney
Date:	31 March 2006
Title:	The Need to Know - Law, Politics, the Community, the Profession, the Media
Event:	The 2006 NSW Bar Association Media Awards
Date:	18 March 2006
Title:	Sentencing-Some Recent Developments
Event:	NSW Young Lawyers Annual Criminal Law Seminar 2006

Date:	31st March 2005
Title:	The Criminal Process and the Role of Discretion
Event:	Legal Studies Association of NSW Annual Conference, Parramatta

Date:	27th September 2004
Title:	The Independence of the Prosecutor and the General Public Interest
Event:	23rd Pacific Islands Law Officers Meeting
Date:	10 June 2004
Title:	Recent Developments in Sentencing
Event:	MCLE Seminar, Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions
Date:	8 May 2004
Title:	The Prosecutor's Duty of Disclosure
Event:	Public Defenders's Conference
Date:	28 November 2003
Title:	Legal Impediments to Global Identifiers
Event:	NSW Police Forensic Services Group Conference - Centenary of Fingerprints in NSW, Sydney
Date:	9 September 2003
Title:	Current Privacy Law from an Agency Perspective: The Litigation Experience of the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (NSW).
Event:	Government Lawyers Continuing Legal Education Convention
Date:	12 August 2003
Title:	Terrorism and the Rule of Law
Event:	International Association of Prosecutors Annual Conference 2003, Washington, USA
Date:	15 March 2003
Title:	Negotiating with the DPP, especially under the Samuels Report
Event:	NSW Young Lawyers One-Day Criminal Law Seminar, Sydney
Date:	4 March 2003
Title:	Minimum Sense: Sentencing Reform & the NSW Election
Event:	NSW Young Lawyers Sentencing Forum, Sydney
Date:	27 February 2003
Title:	Criminal Justice & the Media - Proactive Strategies for Government Agencies
Event:	2003 Government Business Conference, Terrigal
Date:	11-14 February 2003
Title:	Sexual Assault Within a Human Rights Framework
Event:	Practice and Prevention: Contemporary Issues in Adult Sexual Assault in New South Wales, Sydney
Date:	21 November 2002
Title:	Prisons, Politics and Punishment Forum
Event:	CRC Justice Support, Sydney
Date:	2 October 2002
Title:	Crime in NSW - The Gains and Losses of Getting Tough on Crime
Event:	8th International Criminal Law Congress, Melbourne
Date:	9 April 2002
Title:	Occasional Address
Event:	Graduation Ceremony, Macquarie University, Sydney
Date:	3 April 2002
Title:	Forensic Science in Criminal Law
Event:	Annual DPP Solicitors' Conference 2002
Date:	18 March 2002
Title:	Where did I leave my DNA?
Event:	World Police Medical Officers Conference, Sydney 2002
Date:	15 March 2002
Title:	Rights of Refugees
Event:	Australian Plaintiff Lawyers Assoc. NSW State Conference Manly 2002
Date:	13 March 2002
Title:	The Right to Silence
Event:	Medico-Legal Society of NSW
Date:	28-30 November 2001
Title:	Beyond a Punitive Approach
Event:	IPAA National Conference 2001, Sydney
Date:	7 November 2001
Title:	Whose Sentences: the Judges? the Public?s or Alan Jones??
Event:	Aust. Academy of Forensic Sciences, Plenary Session
Date:	18-19 July 2001
Title:	Security vs Privacy
Event:	Australian Security Industry Association Ltd Conference, Sydney
Date:	2 June 2001
Title:	The Criminal Procedure Amendment (Pre-Trial Disclosure) Act 2001
Event:	Criminal Law Specialists' Day, The CLE Centre
Date:	31 May 2001
Title:	Getting Justice Wrong
Event:	Sir Frank Kitto Lecture, UNE, Armidale
Date:	27 May 2001
Title:	The International Criminal Court
Event:	New South Wales Young Lawyers - Mid Year Assembly 2001
Date:	19 May 2001
Title:	Human Rights and the Criminal Process in Australia
Event:	2nd Annual National Prosecutors' Conference, Dublin
Date:	16 May 2001
Title:	Balancing Rights
Event:	International Law Congress 2001, Dublin
Date:	9 May 2001
Title:	The Prosecutor in a Shrinking World
Event:	Danish Prosecution Service, Annual Conference, Kolding
Da-e:	4 May 2001
Title:	International Prosecution Standards
Event:	Heads of Prosecuting Agencies Conference, Edinburgh
Date:	3 May 2001
Title:	The Criminal Procedure Amendment (Pre-Trial Disclosure) Act 2001 (NSW)
Event:	Heads of Prosecuting Agencies Conference, Edinburgh
Date:	3 May 2001
Title:	Human Rights and the Prosecutor
Event:	Faculty of Advocates, Edinburgh
Date:	March 2001
Title:	The DPP's Decision to Prosecute
Event:	Bar Practice Course 2001
Date:	20 March 2001
Title:	A Prosecutor's Lot
Event:	Sydney University Law Society, Focus Seminar
Date:	October 2000
Title:	Current Issues - Peoples' Republic of China
Publication:	The Australian Law Journal
Date:	21 September 2000
Title:	The International Criminal Court
Event:	International Bar Association Biennial Conference 2000 - Amsterdam
Date:	18 September 2000
Title:	Police Informants and Agents Provocateurs: Accomplices or Handmaidens of The Law? - An Australian Perspective
Event:	International Bar Association, Section on Legal Practice,  BIennial Conference, Amsterdam
Date:	4 September 2000
Title:	Human Rights and The Prosecutor - Setting the Scene
Event:	International Association of Prosecutors Annual Conference 2000, Cape Town, South Africa
Date:	August 2000
Title:	Proposal for Circle Sentencing Trial
Event:	Criminal Justice System Chief Executive Officers' Standing Committee - Sydney
Date:	25-30 June 2000
Title:	The Standards of the International Association of Prosecutors with Some Thoughts From Downunder
Event:	XXth Annual Conference of The Canadian Federal Prosecution Service, Quebec
Date:	17 June 2000
Title:	Fair Trials - Disclosure and the Right to Silence
Event:	CLE Centre: Criminal Law Specialists' Weekend - Sydney
Date:	5-9 June 2000
Title:	Pre-Trial Investigations
Event:	Seminar on Human Rights Protection in Criminal Procedure - Zhengzhou, China
Date:	3 May 2000
Title:	Reflections on a Reform Agenda: The NSW Drug Summit Revisited
Event:	Institute of Criminology, University of Sydney
Date:	May 2000
Title:	Justice in Jeopardy: Malaysia 2000
Publication:	Bar Briefs: NSW Bar Association
Date:	10 April 2000
Title:	Human Rights, Business and the Lawyer
Event:	International Law Congress, Cyprus
Date:	13 March 2000
Title:	Address at the opening of the sittings of the Court of Criminal  Appeal
Event:	Wagga Wagga
Date:	26 November 1999
Title:	Address
Event:	Probation and Parole Officers' Association of New South Wales, Annual General Meeting
Date:	24-25 September 1999
Title:	Human Rights Issues in Commercial Practice - An IBA Perspective
Event:	Commercial Law and Human Rights Conference, The Australian National University
Date:	6-10 September 1999
Title:	The IAP Standards: Their Substance and Significance
Event:	International Association of Prosecutors 4th Annual Conference - Beijing
Date:	September 1999
Title:	Guideline Sentencing - A Prosecution Perspective
Publication:	Judicial Officers' Bulletin - New South Wales
Date:	11 August 1999
Title:	Criminal Justice Myths ? Possible New Directions
Event:	Security 99 - 14th Annual Security Conference Melbourne
Date:	19-20 June 1999
Title:	Drug Courts
Event:	CLE Centre: Criminal Law Specialists' Weekend - Sydney
Date:	19-20 June 1999
Title:	Sentencing Guidelines
Event:	CLE Centre: Criminal Law Specialists' Weekend - Sydney
Date:	26 November 1998
Title:	Occasional Address
Event:	Legal Practitioners Admission Board - Ceremony for Awarding Diplomas in Law
Martin Blackmore SC, Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions 1997 - 2002
Date:	3-8 September 2000
Title:	Equality of Arms in an Adversary System
Event:	International Association of Prosecutors Conference, Capetown, South Africa
Date:	1999
Title:	Papakosmas v The Queen
Event:	ODPP MCLE Lecture
Date:	13-18 September 1998
Title:	Correcting Miscarriages of Justice
Event:	International Bar Association, Vancouver, Canada

---