Monday, 25 August 2025
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
*Original Content was created in November 2024
Chair
Genevive Vear, Senior Lawyer, Ministry of Justice - Appeals Counsel, Public Defence Service Tauranga
Addressing Blind Spots: Effective Interviewing and Information Gathering for Prosecutors
- Recognise and address biases in interviews
- Improve listening and observation skills
- Building rapport with witnesses and victims
- Cross-referencing and verifying data
- Ongoing training to improve interview skills
Presented by Robin McCoubrey, Partner, Meredith Connell
Learning Objectives:
- Recognise and minimise bias in prosecutorial interviewing
- Improve rapport-building and data validation techniques in interviews
Presenters
Genevive Vear, Senior Lawyer, Ministry of Justice - Appeals Counsel, Public Defence Service TaurangaGenevive is a senior lawyer and appeals counsel at the Public Defence Service. She has been with the PDS since 2009 and has appeared in a wide range of criminal matters in the lower and higher Courts across this time. She currently specialises in appellate work, with a special interest and expertise in mental health related matters. Her LLM (first class) from Auckland University specialised in mental health. She has written and spoken regularly on CPMIP related matters.
Robin McCoubrey, Partner, Meredith Connell
Robin's experience includes prosecuting trials of the utmost seriousness, including high-profile cases of homicide, profit-driven organised criminal offending and serious sexual offending. He has appeared in over 100 jury trials before the District and High Courts. He also regularly appears for the Crown in the Court of Appeal and, in one instance, the Supreme Court. He also has considerable experience acting in proceeds of crime litigation, as well as advising and appearing for a number of regulatory bodies.
