Equality Before the Law Bench Book — Update 14
Section 1 — Equality before the law
This section has been revised and updated. Further, new commentary at 1.4.1 Unconscious bias has been added. This refers to research into how...
Sentencing Bench Book — Update 44
Update 44 to the Sentencing Bench Book contains amendments to:
Penalties of imprisonment The text at Imprisonment as a sanction of last resort has been updated to include Casella v...
Sexual Assault Trials Handbook — Update 25
Update 25 to the Handbook contains amendments to:
Recent sexual assault law
The following recent cases have been added:
Porter v R NSWCCA 117, where error was found in...
Local Court Bench Book Update 132 published
Specific penalties and orders
The following legislation in the tables has been revised to reflect recent amendments:
Bail Act 2013 by the Justice Legislation Amendment...
Civil Trials Bench Book Update 39
The following changes have been incorporated into this update:
Court Suppression and Non-publication Orders Act 2010
In relation to a suppression or non-publication order being “necessary”,...
Criminal Trial Courts Bench Book Update 61.2
The following sections have been updated
Dangerous driving
The commentary in this section has been revised to summarise the content of directions to be given...
Criminal Trial Courts Bench Book Update 61.1
Closed court, suppression and non-publication orders
This chapter has been substantially revised to include the following:
A reference to Darren Brown (a pseudonym) v R...
Sexual Assault Trials Handbook Update 24
Update 24 to the Sexual Assault Trials Handbook contains amendments to:
Recent sexual assault law
The following recent cases have been added:
BC v R NSWCCA 11,...
Children’s Court Resource Handbook Update 10 published
Update 10 of the Children’s Court Resource Handbook includes:
Two articles have been added to Care and protection matters — background material, by his Honour...
Criminal Trials Court Bench Book Update 61 published
Update 61 of the Criminal Trials Court Bench Book includes a new section on the Sexual assault communications privilege. This has been added in the Trial Procedure chapter...