Professor Ian Freckelton QC
Ian Freckelton is a Queen’s Counsel at the Victorian Bar. He has a national practice and is currently prosecuting the disciplinary case against Dr Patel in Queensland, arguing the constitutionality of the national health practitioner regulatory scheme in South Australia, and appearing for the New South Wales Police in the Lindt Cafe Inquest in Sydney. He is also a Professorial Fellow in Law and Psychiatry at the University of Melbourne, an Adjunct Professor of Law and Forensic Medicine at Monash University, and an Adjunct Professor of Law at La Trobe University. He is a Commissioner at the Victorian Law Reform Commission running the reference on Medicinal Cannabis. Ian is a member of Victoria’s Coronial Council and Mental Health Tribunal, the Editor of the Journal of Law and Medicine and the Editor-in-Chief of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law. He is an elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law, the Academy of Social Sciences Australia and the Australasian College of Legal Medicine. He is also the author and editor of more than 40 books and over 500 peer reviewed articles. His next book on Scholarly Misconduct and the Law will be published by Oxford University Press later this year.

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‘Fitness to Stand Trial: From Ezra Pound to David Eastman’
The Kirby Lecture will scrutinise the dilemmas in evaluating capacity to participate in the criminal justice process via findings of fitness to stand trial. It will scrutinise the famous case of Ezra Pound in the aftermath of the Second World War, the decisions of the Extraordinary Chambers of the Courts of Cambodia in relation to Ieng Thirith, the case of Josep Nahak in East Timor, and the saga involving David Eastman over the past two decades in Australia. In so doing it will reflect on the disabilities which can detract in a meaningful sense from the capacity of persons to engage as accused persons and the challenges for the legal system in making decisions which impact profoundly upon those who go to trial and those who may never go to trial.

Lewis Seminar Room, W38, Economics Business and Law Building.