The 42nd ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the Association will take place at 12.30pm on Thursday, 24th November 2022 at the ANZAPPL Congress, Hilton, Adelaide, South Australia, and via Zoom. Proxies may be submitted using the appropriate form provided in conjunction with this Notice. A Zoom link will follow closer to the meeting. Documentation for the Annual General Meeting can be found here. Only active members of the Association can access this link. AGENDA Circulate attendance list for signing Welcome by ANZAPPL President, Vincenzo Caltabiano Apologies and proxies Confirmation of minutes for the 41st Annual General Meeting President’s report Secretary’s Report Treasurer’s report Journal Editor’s report Website and media report Election of officers Nominations for and election of President Nominations for and election of President-Elect. Nominations for and election of Treasurer. Nominations for and election of Assistant Treasurer. Nominations for and election of Secretary. Nominations for and election of Assistant Secretary. Nominations for and election of Ordinary Members. [(Under Clause 50 of the Constitution, separate elections must be held for each of the positions of (a) President; (b) President-Elect; (c) Secretary; and (d) Treasurer. Under Clause 51, a single election may be held to appoint the other members with the exception of immediate Past President]   Branch reports Any other business Motions requiring members decisions:

ANZAPPL (SA Branch) Annual General Meeting 2022 The SA Branch AGM will be held during this year's Annual Congress, in Adelaide at the Hilton Hotel on Wendesday 23 November at 4.30pm, followed by Congress Welcome Drinks. Papers will be emailed to SA members.

The 41st Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law Annual Congress will be held in Adelaide from 23 – 25 November 2022. It’s been more than two years since the last in-person Congress, and we are looking forward to being reunited again ‘in real life’, reconnecting with colleagues and taking part in meaningful discussions in November this year. From learnings to trends, to what’s in store for the future for our community – we will have sessions loaded with information you will not want to miss.  This of course will be set against the backdrop of Adelaide, a thriving Australian city, with a burgeoning bar and dining scene and world-class art and music. ANZAPPL looks forward to welcoming you to Adelaide. Please visit the Congress website for more details.

This seminar will follow the ANZAPPL WA Annual General Meeting. Further information about the AGM can be found here. Registration for the Annual General Meeting and lecture are essential. Please click here to register. Dr David Curnow has been a Forensic Psychologist for over 20 years. In 2011 he was awarded his PhD in psychology from Monash University after researching while collar offenders. David’s career spans state and federal governments, private practice and research agencies. For the past 8 years he has been in decision making roles at the Adult Parole Board and since 2020 the Post Sentence Authority of Victoria. In private practice, David has delivered psychological treatment to diverse client groups, training clinicians and corporate groups and reports to courts on criminal, civil and family law matters. He has presented his research at over 25 national and international conferences and lectures in Forensic Psychology at several Melbourne-based universities. David was a member of the Standards Australia committee which reviewed Fraud and Corruption Control Standard (AS8001) releasing the update in 2021 by Palgrave Macmillan. David is presenting here in a private practice capacity. David’s presentation will be live streamed from Victoria and will include: An overview of the fraud and embezzlement landscape. Models of embezzlement and fraud including the Psychology of the Embezzler Model. The role psychology can play in the prevention of embezzlement, fraud and corruption  

The Annual General Meeting of ANZAPPL WA will take place on Wednesday 9 November 2022. This will be followed by a lecture presented by Dr David Curnow titled The Psychology of Fraud and Embezzlement. Please click here for further information about this lecture. Registering for the lecture includes registration for the AGM. Please click here to register. Documentation for the Annual General Meeting can be found here. Only active members of the Association can access this link.

Senior lawyers and clinicians will provide attendees with the skills and knowledge to become confident in the role of expert witness. About this event Mental health clinicians acting as expert witnesses are tasked with forming and communicating an expert opinion, grounded in clinical expertise, to assist a decision-maker (such as a court or a legal tribunal) regarding a matter of dispute in which mental health factors are potentially relevant. In this two-day workshop, senior lawyers, psychologists, and psychiatrists will provide attendees with the skills and knowledge to become confident in the role of expert witness, based on the relevant literature and their experiences in law and forensic psychiatry. Topics include Preparing for and handling cross-examination Formulating clinical opinions to assist with sentencing Managing the lawyer/expert interface Application of relevant Supreme Court Expert Evidence Notes Facilitators Tim Marsh has practiced exclusively in criminal law for over 20 years. Tim was appointed as a Senior Public Defender at Victoria Legal Aid in 2011. In 2013, he was appointed as Chief Counsel, and for the next 7 years led VLA Chambers, before deciding to return to the Bar in November 2020. While Tim practices in all areas of crime, he has a strong practice in mental impairment and disability law. His work at first instance and on appeal in this area have helped clarify and reshape how the Victorian Courts treat offenders with mental illnesses. In 2020, his advocacy in the decision of Brown v The Queen saw the 2017 case of DPP v O'Neill overturned, allowing courts to take personality disorders into account in sentencing. Tim was counsel in the landmark case of DPP v Walters, which saw the controversial 'baseline sentencing' reforms declared 'incapable of practical application' by the Court of Appeal. Tim regularly appears in serious homicide cases: he was counsel at first instance for Jaymes Todd (the murder of Eurydice Dixon) and Codey Herrmann (the murder of Aiia Maasarwe). In 2021, he successfully resisted an attempt by the DPP to overturn the 36-year sentence imposed on Codey Herrmann before a full bench of the Court of Appeal in a decision of national significance for the sentencing of aboriginal offenders. Tim was a member of the Victorian Law Reform Steering Committee for the VLRC reference into mental impairment and is a past legal member of the Mental Health Review Board. Sam Norton is a partner at Stary Norton Halphen Criminal lawyers, is an accredited criminal law specialist, and is ranked in the Doyles’ guide as a Preeminent Criminal Defence solicitor. He is an advocate with extensive experience in trials and plea hearings in both the Supreme Court and County Court – including those under the Crimes (Mental Impairment and Unfitness to be Tried) Act. Sam has appeared in a number of fitness investigations and mental impairment trials including but not limited to homicides. He also has extensive experience adducing evidence from psychiatrists and psychologists at plea hearings and bail applications. Diana Piekusis QC is a Senior Crown Prosecutor at the Office of Public Prosecutions. Diana has extensive experience in criminal law and appears predominantly in the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court. Diana also appears and provides advice in relation to matters under the Crimes (Mental Impairment and Unfitness to be Tried) Act and the Serious Offenders Act. Diana provides instructions to counsel and solicitors regarding expert evidence in all criminal matters. Dr Andrew Carroll has worked as a forensic psychiatrist in both treatment and assessment roles in Australia for over two decades. He currently carries out treatment work in a prison clinic for Forensicare, medicolegal assessment work in both criminal and civil fields, and is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Centre for Forensic Behavioural Science (Swinburne University of Technology). He has published on a range of topics including the interface between mental disorder and sentencing in the criminal courts. Dr Michael Davis is a Forensic Clinical Psychologist in full time private practice and the National Chair of the APS College of Forensic Psychologists. He has adjunct appointments at Swinburne, Monash, and Melbourne Universities. Dr Davis’ consulting practice is divided between forensic clinical assessment tasks and providing behavioural investigative advice to police agencies. He has provided behavioural investigative advice to police in several countries across three continents and serves as an instructor to the Behavioral Analysis Unit of the FBI. Dr Davis has conducted hundreds of assessments for the courts and in consultation for area mental health services, government departments, and private lawyers. He has given expert evidence several hundred times on the topics of risk assessment, personality disorder, and sexual deviance. Location Day 1 (Friday, 10 am - 3 pm) will be held at the State Library of Victoria. Day 2 (Saturday, 10 am - 3 pm) will be held at the Old Melbourne Gaol. Morning tea and lunch will be provided. Registration Tickets are essential for this event. Please click here to purchase your ticket.

Commissioner for Victims of Crime Kati Kraszlan invites members of ANZAPPL WA and other interested parties to attend the Victim Voices conference on 16 September 2022. A focus of the conference will be how to support diverse victims of crime, all of whom have different needs. The conference will hear from victim representatives, while Attorney General John Quigley, the Chief Justice, the Hon Peter Quinlan SC, and Department of Justice Director General Dr Adam Tomison will deliver speeches. A panel will examine the ‘victims’ journey’, with representatives from each phase of the criminal justice system discussing ways to make the experience less traumatic. The conference will also be looking at the findings of a WA-first evaluation of the State’s pilot justice facility dog program, where Winston the Labrador visits public areas of the Children’s Court to provide support.  The conference’s announcement follows the State Government tasking the Law Reform Commission with reviewing the State’s sexual offence laws and the with an end-to-end review of the criminal justice system for victims of crime. Tickets for the event, to be held at the State Library of Western Australia, are free but must be booked at https://justice.wa.gov.au/victim-voice-conference.

Presented by Kati Kraszlan, Commissioner for Victims of Crime. Please join us for our first dinner seminar to be held on the beautiful grounds of UWA at the University Club of Western Australia. Price: $60 per head, includes two course dinner and seminar. Please advise of any dietary requirements when booking your ticket. Cash bar will be available to purchase drinks on the night. When Rowan Baxter murdered Hannah Clark and her three children in February 2020 coercive control became a subject of intense media and public interest. The interest was furthered through the strong advocacy of Jess Hill and many March 4 Women’s Justice movements. Yet the concept of coercive control is not new and many practitioners in the family and domestic violence sector have been reporting the damaging and dangerous nature of coercive control for years. Public understanding of the concept has lagged behind and this can at least be partly attributed to the criminal justice system focusing on domestic violence as a series of physically violent incidents. For the victims of coercion and control recognition of the severity of the behaviour and its impact on them is paramount. The Office of the Commissioner for Victims of Crime is currently conducting a state-wide consultation process on how the law and the legal system in Western Australia responds to coercive control. But coercive control is complex. It intersects with many other issues including trauma, mental health, and addictions. The question of whether to criminalise coercive control is also complex and legal responses alone are not the solution. This informative and interactive discussion will focus on the complexities of coercion and control, issues to be covered include what would be the role of psychologists and psychiatrists if it was to be criminalised, how do we assess such behaviour for both victims and for perpetrators and what could be the difficulties, from legal perspectives, in obtaining successful prosecutions. Please click here to purchase your ticket.

Presented by Robert Guthrie, this seminar addresses a range of workplace issues, with a focus on employer and employee rights in relation to vaccination, workers compensation and return to work, consequent upon the outbreak and spread of Covid-19 in Australia since 2020. It will briefly address some changes to the workplace generally and then consider the sometimes-complex issues arising from injury and stress related claims which have resulted in some changed behaviours in claims and injury management. It concludes the theme emerging from decided cases (concerning vaccination and return to work) to date is employers, insurers and rehabilitation providers must adopt a reasonable approach to the consultation and implementation of workplace changes which affect injured workers subject to return to work programs. Dr Rob Guthrie is Adjunct Professor of Workers Compensation and Workplace Law at John Curtin Institute of Public Police Curtin University. He was admitted to practice as Barrister and Solicitor in 1982 and practiced in the area of workers compensation and workplace law for approximately 10 years before turning to academic research and teaching into the area. He was the author of reports to the WA Government on workers compensation in 1991, 1999 and 2001. He was part of the WA WorkCover Review in 2009. In 2011-12 he was on the National Committee to advise the Federal Minister for Employment in relation to Asbestos removal in Australia. He has been a consultant to WorkCover WA and various Ministers responsible for workers compensation legislation. He holds B Juris, LLB LLM MCom and PhD. He is the author of LexisNexis Workers Compensation Western Australia and has published over 100 articles in peer-referred journals. He was sworn in as Magistrate/Assessor of Criminal Injuries Compensation in 2010. Click here to purchase tickets.

The emergence of legislation that allows offenders to be detained beyond their prison sentence has brought into particular focus the value of intervention for high-risk offenders. Whilst the traditional treatment programs adopting a skills-based cognitive behaviour approach have shown utility in reducing assessed risk, a sub-set of offenders continue to struggle to engage and benefit from the treatments offered in custodial contexts. Since many of these individuals have characteristic problems associated with severe personality disorder, the challenge for practitioners is less about identifying risk and more about overcoming responsivity issues. This presentation will discuss the challenges and pitfalls of working with offenders in this context with a particular focus on the application of forensic schema therapy to severe personality disorder. Materials Therapy in confined spaces: forensic schema therapy with severe personality disorder [PDF] Forensic schema therapy: an introduction [PDF] Contact For further information please contact ANZAPPL QLD President Mark Kebbell on m.kebbell@griffith.edu.au

Jane Sanders is the principal solicitor of The Shopfront Youth Legal Centre, a free legal service for homeless and disadvantaged young people, based in inner-city Sydney. The Shopfront provides court representation and other legal services to young people with high and complex needs who cannot effectively access Legal Aid and other mainstream legal services.Jane is an accredited specialist in criminal law and children’s law. She has almost 30 years’ experience appearing for children and young adults in criminal matters in the Children’s, Local, District and Supreme Courts. Of necessity, given the composition of her client group, Jane has become an expert in diversionary procedures for people with cognitive and mental health impairments.Jane's role also includes providing legal education and in campaigning for law reform on issues that affect young and disadvantaged people. She is an active member (and now the Chair) of the NSW Law Society Criminal Law Committee and also sits on other committees and working groups. In 2008 Jane was awarded the NSW Law and Justice Foundation’s Justice Medal, for “outstanding individual achievement in improving access to justice, especially for socially and economically disadvantaged people”. In 2014 she received the Terry Keaney Memorial Award for “dedication to the profession, excellence as a criminal lawyer, commitment to clients and concerns for social justice”. This event will follow the ANZAPPL NSW Annual General Meeting 2022. Please click here for further information about the AGM. Registration is essential. Please click here to register.

The Annual General Meeting of ANZAPPL New South Wales will take place at 6pm (AEDT) on Wednesday 9 March 2022, via Zoom. All active members of ANZAPPL New South Wales are encouraged to attend. Please click here to access an agenda for this meeting and forms. This meeting will be immediately followed by a lecture delivered by Jane Sanders, Thoughts on the new Mental Health and Cognitive Impairment Act and how it is working in the Local Court. Registration for the lecture includes registration for the Annual General Meeting. Please click here to register.