Criminal Law CPD – Murder & Manslaughter with Mahmoud Mando
This criminal law CPD recorded webinar will address the following learning outcomes:
(1) Identify the Elements of Murder and the Types of Manslaughter;
(2) Recognise how issues of causation are approached;
(3) Understand the concept of Constructive Murder / Felony Murder;
(4) Appreciate recent developments in the law relating to Constructive Murder and the recent High Court case of Mitchell v The King [2023] HCA 5 (8 March 2023);
(5) Understand the relationship between Constructive Murder and the doctrines of Joint Criminal Enterprise & Extended Joint Criminal Enterprise;
(6) Understand the conceptual distinctions relating to Accessorial Criminal Liability between Aiders and Abettors, Accessories before/ at/ after the fact and participants in a Joint Criminal Enterprise and their relevance to Constructive Murder;
(7) Understand how Alternative Verdicts, including of Manslaughter, can be reached in a trial for Murder, including jury verdict requirements and obligations on trial judges vis-à-vis juries as to Manslaughter verdicts;
(8) Appreciate the difference between Voluntary Manslaughter and Involuntary Manslaughter;
(9) Recognise the different types of Voluntary Manslaughter, by Provocation, Diminished Responsibility, Excessive Self-Defence;
(10) Recognise the different types of Involuntary Manslaughter, by Criminal Negligence, by Unlawful and Dangerous Act;
(11)Understand the special rules relating to Self-Defence in the context of homicides;
(12) Understand the special rules relating to Intoxication in the context of homicides.
1 CPD unit/points Substantive Law
About your speaker:
Mahmoud Mando is a barrister-at-law in Sydney who practices out of Edmund Barton Chambers in Martin Place. He was admitted as a barrister in 2013 and as a legal practitioner in 2004. He has a Bachelor of Laws (First Class Honours) / Bachelor of Business from the University of Technology, Sydney and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Sydney. He regularly appears in criminal matters in which he has developed a particular expertise and is a sought-after courtroom advocate.
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