Chair
Danielle Beston, Barrister, Danielle Beston Barrister
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD hour
* This interactive online recording includes questions and quizzes requiring critical thinking about the topics, so you have no annual limits to the number of points/hours you can claim with this format of learning. Please verify with your CPD rules
Discharge Without Conviction and Mandatory Disqualifying Offences
- Understand the discharge without conviction process, the legislation, and sentencing options
- Can a criminal offence, such as drink driving, or a major traffic offence, be discharged without conviction?
- Latest Discharge without Conviction cases
- Disqualification from driving: learn how to minimise the negative impact of mandatory disqualifications; how to utilise s81, s85 and s94 effectively; the penalties; and latest judgments
Presented by Sam Campbell, Barrister and Solicitor, Campbell Legal
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the criteria and process for discharge without conviction
- Learn how to manage and minimise mandatory driving disqualifications
Presenters
Danielle Beston, Barrister
Danielle Beston is a Barrister Sole who holds a Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in Philosophy from the University of Auckland. She is a member of the New Zealand Law Society, The Auckland District Law Society and the Criminal Bar Association. Danielle has presented at seminars held by the Continuing Legal Education Division of the New Zealand Law Society, the University of Auckland Alumni Network, the New Zealand Association for Migration and Investment and Legalwise Seminars. With over 20 years’ experience as a defence lawyer, Danielle has a special interest in traffic and transportation law. She has represented clients in a wide range of different industries throughout New Zealand in relation to Police Prosecutions and New Zealand Transport Agency investigations. She has also been a contributor to the New Zealand Trucking Magazine’s “Legal Lines” column since 2006.”
Sam Campbell, Barrister and Solicitor, Campbell Legal
Sam Campbell is a Barrister and Solicitor specialising mainly in criminal defence work. Sam has experience in the Family and District Court, High Court, and Court of Appeal. Sam began practicing in 2017. Before going out on his own, Sam worked for the general practice Ord Legal in Wellington for three years, before moving to work at the Wellington Public Defence Service. Sam has been running his own legal practice for three years and is based in Wellington.
