Elements and Performance Criteria
- Prepare information
- Determine the purpose and terms of formal inquiries and consider these in the selection of information to ensure relevance.
- Use a range of reliable and authorised sources of information in compiling reports.
- Collect and verify all relevant information for currency and accuracy.
- Identify and notify people required as witnesses or to provide evidence, of the inquiry and their need to attend.
- Present information
- Follow the procedures and directions of the inquiry precisely and accurately.
- Present information in a format that complies with rules of evidence and the purpose and terms of reference of the inquiry.
- Present information that is clear, specific, relevant and factual.
- Ensure personal presentation, manner and language are consistent with the protocol of a formal inquiry.
- Use correct forms of address and observe formal protocol.
- Review and report
- Check draft reports, remove all unnecessary material and edit content to meet the standards of the inquiry.
- Check that reports contain all relevant and valid information and are factual, complete and objective.
- Make recommendations that are unambiguous, and consistent with the evidence and the constraints.
- Use language style and presentation appropriate for a formal legal document.
- Provide reports using the range of technology and media suitable and recommended for the context.
- Prepare information
- Determine the purpose and terms of formal inquiries and consider these in the selection of information to ensure relevance.
- Use a range of reliable and authorised sources of information in compiling reports.
- Collect and verify all relevant information for currency and accuracy.
- Identify and notify people required as witnesses or to provide evidence, of the inquiry and their need to attend.
- Present information
- Follow the procedures and directions of the inquiry precisely and accurately.
- Present information in a format that complies with rules of evidence and the purpose and terms of reference of the inquiry.
- Present information that is clear, specific, relevant and factual.
- Ensure personal presentation, manner and language are consistent with the protocol of a formal inquiry.
- Use correct forms of address and observe formal protocol.
- Review and report
- Check draft reports, remove all unnecessary material and edit content to meet the standards of the inquiry.
- Check that reports contain all relevant and valid information and are factual, complete and objective.
- Make recommendations that are unambiguous, and consistent with the evidence and the constraints.
- Use language style and presentation appropriate for a formal legal document.
- Provide reports using the range of technology and media suitable and recommended for the context.