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High Court judgments

David Kelsey-Sugg 01 Apr 2020

Directions to jury – Liberato direction.

Criminal Procedure Immigration Judgment

High Court judgments

David Kelsey-Sugg 01 Mar 2020

Crown appeal against sentence – procedural fairness . . .

Criminal Procedure Immigration Judgment Police

Judicial College of Victoria: Collaborating against family violence

Elanor Peattie 01 Mar 2020

Multidisciplinary approaches involve a departure from the traditional

adversarial model of justice to one that is collaborative and problem-solving...

Criminal Procedure

Criminal law: Sex Offenders Register – A guide for lawyers

Bill Doogue 01 Feb 2020

There are some basic concepts that lawyers should be familiar with when assisting clients on the sex offenders register...

Criminal Procedure Practice & Procedure

Criticisms of committals process unfounded

Karin Derkley 23 Jan 2020

Abolishing committal hearings will undermine fundamental rights in the criminal justice system and exacerbate trial delays in the higher courts by making pre-trial processes significantly longer and increasing the number of cases that proceed to trial, the LIV says...

Courts Criminal Procedure

Videolink assessments defended

Karin Derkley 09 Dec 2019

Forensic psychologists and psychiatrists have defended the use of video conferencing for mental health assessments of defendants after a County Court judge claimed the practice was not a reliable or valid method for a forensic report...

Criminal Procedure Sentencing

Lowering the bar of admissibility

Antony Lee Berger 01 Jul 2019

There has been a major upheaval in the High Court’s approach to tendency evidence resulting in lowering the threshold for admitting tendency evidence. This strongly favours the prosecution, especially in sexual offence cases...

Criminal Procedure

Have your say on committal hearings

VLRC 01 Jul 2019

The VLRC is exploring whether committals should be abolished or reformed to reduce victims’ trauma...

Criminal Procedure

Opposition welcomes debate on old minor offences

Karin Derkley 20 Feb 2019

Support for the Spent Convictions Bill is growing, with the LIV, the Victorian Bar and former shadow attorney-general John Pesutto coming out in favour of the scheme which would wipe clean the criminal record of those with minor convictions after 10 years, or five years for minors. ..

Criminal Procedure Sentencing Young Persons

Criminal Law Section celebrates 40 years of influence

Karin Derkley 03 Dec 2018

The LIV Criminal Law Section's annual general meeting heard about how a handful of lawyers from this ‘grubby’ area of law set up the first criminal law committee 40 years ago...

Criminal Procedure

Supporting victims of crime

VLRC 03 Dec 2018

A new Act recognises a victim of crime has an inherent interest in the response by the criminal justice system to that crime...

Criminal Procedure

Law and order election

Karin Derkley 01 Nov 2018

Burglary and break and enter offences are the lowest they have been in a decade but crime is high on the election agenda...

Courts Criminal Procedure

They found my iPhone

Paul McGorrery 01 Nov 2018

A recent decision has upheld a ruling that although a mobile phone may have been unlawfully or improperly seized and searched, evidence obtained from it may still be admissible...

Criminal Procedure