Criminal Trials Court Bench Book Update 63.1
The Criminal Trials Court Bench Book has been updated at Complaint evidence as follows:
Following SB v R NSWCCA 207, where there was consideration of...
Sexual Assault Trials Handbook – Update 28 published
The following changes have been incorporated into this update:
Recent sexual assault law
The following recent cases have been added:
Evidence
BRC v R NSWCCA 176 — directions — tendency...
Criminal Trial Courts Bench Book – Update 63 published
The following changes have been incorporated into this update:
Sexual assault communications privilege
This chapter has been revised at Introduction and Applications for leave, to add R v Bonanno; ex...
Sentencing Trends and Issues No 47 — Navigating the Bail Act 2013 — G...
Judicial officers make important decisions concerning bail every day — on multiple occasions in the one day in the context of busy and varied...
Criminal Trial Courts Bench Book — Update 62 published
The following changes have been incorporated into this update:
Contempt
This chapter has been revised at The offence of disrespectful behaviour to include the...
Civil Trials Bench Book — Update 41 published
The following changes have been incorporated into this update:
Alternative dispute resolution
This chapter has been substantially revised and updated.
New paragraphs have been added at Jurisdiction and...
Equality before the Law Bench Book — Update 16 published
Section 1 — Equality before the law
This section has been updated at 1.2 — The diversity of the NSW population to include statistics from the report by the National Centre...
Coronavirus and the courts
Judicial College of Victoria — Coronavirus and the courts — summary of court arrangements around Australia during COVID-19 pandemic
The Judicial College of Victoria (JCV) has created...
Sexual Assault Trials Handbook — Update 27 — March 2020
Offences
Table 1: Sexual offences involving child victims at and Table 2: Sexual offences — other, at have both been updated.
A brief legislative...
Local Court Bench Book Update 136 published
Update 136 of Local Court Bench Book includes:
General Orders has been updated at to include a ready reckoner table with the length...