Kirsten EdwardsBA LLB (Hons) (ANU) (1996) LLM (Yale) (2000)
Admitted as a legal practitioner 1999 Admitted to the Bar 2009 Kirsten has a busy criminal practice and has a particular interest in corporate crime, evidence law and forensic evidence. She appears regularly in the District Court, the Court of Criminal Appeal and the High Court, and is on the Legal Aid Specialist Panel for appellate matters. Kirsten’s appearances as junior counsel in the High Court include Grech v The Queen, IMM v The Queen and Hughes v The Queen, and, in relation to DNA evidence, Forbes v The Queen and Aytugrul v The Queen. Kirsten is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the School of Law at UNSW where she co-teaches a course involving advocacy, evidence and ethics and has also lectured occasionally in evidence law at the University of Sydney Law School. Kirsten has extensive experience in the conduct of inquests and commissions of inquiry. She appears in inquests as Counsel Assisting the Coroner and on behalf of interested public and private parties, including Hospitals and medical professionals, sporting bodies and family members. Kirsten has also appeared on behalf of the Judicial Commission and Attorney-General in a number of proceedings involving judicial officers, for the Bar Association in NCAT, and in a series of ICAC hearings. Before coming to the Bar, Kirsten was an Associate to Justice Michael Kirby in the High Court and completed a Masters in Law at Yale Law School as a Fulbright Scholar. From 2003-2006, Kirsten worked at the Legal Aid Commission as a criminal defence solicitor and as a Senior Lecturer in Equity & Trusts and Evidence at UTS. From 2006-2009 Kirsten was a Solicitor Advocate at the Crown Solicitor’s Office (Inquiries and Criminal Law). In 2005, Kirsten spent 6 months working with the Innocence Project in the USA, for prisoners on death row and serving sentences of life without parole. Principal areas of Practice
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