Past Events

At our annual Coroners Court Conference, you will explore emerging issues challenging society and affecting your role. It attracts Coroners from all over Australia and New Zealand.  

Explore the social context of family violence and develop skills to identify and respond to family violence in the court or tribunal room.

Join Acting State Coroner Caitlin English in conversation with two prominent Australian authors, Dr Clare Wright and Tyson Yunkaporta, at our end of year Law and Literature event.

Offering an opportunity to further develop a culturally appropriate framework, this twilight will focus on strategies to promote the social and emotional wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People appearing before our courts.

How to write like a judicial officer - and a story teller. Our judgment writing program assists judicial officers to become more efficient and effective in judgment writing.

Led by a cross-jurisdictional steering committee, this full-day practical skills-based program focuses on lived experience, verbal and non-verbal techniques for engaging with diverse litigants and the limits of procedural fairness.

Co-facilitated by the Hon. Murray Kellam AO QC and leading ethicist Dr Attracta Lagan, this workshop focuses on personal and organisational integrity and applied ethics.

Associate Professor Anne Smith, Medical Director of the Victorian Forensic Paediatric Medical Service, will address key myths and misconceptions and provide an updates on the latest approaches to injury investigation and interpretation

Touching on loneliness, aged care, harm minimisation and the diverse needs of Aboriginal and LGBTI communities, this conference will support Coroners further develop their understanding of a 'preventable death'.

This twilight will provide judicial officers with an insight into Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder.