News
New Partner Agency Portal
New Victims and Witnesses’ website
The CDPP has launched a new website to provide information about the prosecution process to victims, witnesses, their carers and support people.
The CDPP Director Sarah McNaughton SC said “This site is an important way to support vulnerable victims and witnesses, who are often caught up in the prosecution process without previous experience of the legal system.”
Alert: Hoax phone calls continuing to target Australians
Members of the public are continuing to receive phone calls supposedly from the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions (CDPP) requesting people to contact the Office in relation to a tax fraud warrant – ultimately seeking people to deposit money into a bank account, to send it overseas or attend a post office and put money on a Deposit Card. The calls suggest that your home is under surveillance as the correspondence sent via registered mail have returned unsigned.
ALERT: Hoax CDPP phone calls
The Office of the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions is warning members of the community to beware of scam callers claiming to be from the CDPP.
Concerned members of the community have reported scam callers are threatening legal action in relation to tax fraud as a means of coaxing them into handing over personal details or money.
Commercial Transactions in an Insolvency Context: Seminar by Shane Kirne, Deputy Director
On 16 September 2014, CDPP’s Deputy Director and head of Commercial, Financial & Corruption practice group will join a panel at the Federal Court of Australia to discuss ‘Commercial Transactions in an Insolvency Context’. The seminar is part of the Monash University’s Faculty of Law and the Federal Court of Australia’s National Commercial Law Seminar Series and aims to provide legal advisers, administrators and liquidators with insight into the workings of the CDPP and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). Mr Kirne will present on: