CPD 1.5 hours
PEAT Outcome - Relevant legal knowledge
OBJECTIVES
This webinar will cover:
- Judicial development of the doctrine of corroboration
- What should be corroborated in an omnibus charge / does it matter if it is statutory or common law?
- Mutual corroboration: that’s a course of conduct, right!?
- Is corroboration a jury question or a legal question?
DELEGATES
This Zoom webinar will be of interest to solicitors, trainee solicitors, newly qualified solicitors, and anyone working in the field of criminal law.
SPEAKER
Gillian Simpson, Advocate, Black Chambers
Gillian is a practicing member of the Faculty of Advocates and is part of Black Chambers. Her areas of practice include criminal defence work, Children’s Referrals, and human rights law. Since calling to the Bar in 2025, Gillian has been instructed in an array of criminal cases in both the Sheriff Court and the Hight Court, including sexual offence and domestic abuse cases. She has also been instructed to represent children accused of violent offending, to undertake children’s referral work and to defend permanence order proceedings.
