Sentencing Bench Book Update 47 published
Intensive correction orders (ICOs) has been updated at Power to make ICO subject to Pt 5 to add the discussion in R v Fangaloka NSWCCA 173 and Wany v...
Criminal Trial Courts Bench Book Update 64 published
Closed court, suppression and non-publication orders
HT v The Queen HCA 40, which concerns the orders that may be made where an offender has assisted...
Children’s Court Resource Handbook Update 12 published
Children's Court Resource Handbook Update 12 contains the following amendments:
The Care and protection matters — important cases has been updated and restructured. New judgments...
Local Court Bench Book Update 139 published
Local Court Bench Book update 139 contains amendments to:
Specific penalties and orders
has been updated as a result of the following recent amendments:
Liquor Regulation...
Judicial Commission’s 2019–20 Annual Report is published
The Judicial Commission is pleased to publish our 2019–20 Annual Report. The Report was tabled in the NSW Parliament on 17 December 2020.
This report is...
Civil Trials Bench Book – Update 42 published
Disqualification for biasThe case of Concrete Pty Ltd v Parramatta Design & Developments Pty Ltd (2006) 229 CLR 577, which held that an intermediate appellate court...
Sexual Assault Trials Handbook — Update 30
Recent sexual assault law
The following recent cases have been added:
Gray v R NSWCCA 240 concerned the competence of a 5-year-old witness, who was also the...
Local Court Bench Book Update 138 published
Local Court Bench Book Update 138 contains the following:
Specific penalties and orders
This chapter has been updated as a result of the following recent amendments:
...
Sexual Assault Trials Handbook – Update 29 published
The following changes have been incorporated into this update: Recent sexual assault lawThe following recent cases have been added:
Higgins v R NSWCCA 149, where the court held...
Sentencing Bench Book Update 46 published
Intensive correction orders has been updated at following the insertion of s 77A of the Bail Act 2013 which commenced on 19 March 2020. Blanch v R NSWCCA 304 has been...