The following sections have been updated:
Recent sexual assault law
- Recent case digests have been added at [6-005] Recent sexual assault cases.
- New article has been added at [6-050] Other publications.
General directions
Updated at [6-500] to include links to new suggested directions:
- Suggested direction — joint criminal enterprise and sexual assault in company
- Suggested direction — sexual act involving a child under 10 (s 66DC(a1))
- Suggested direction — sexual act involving a child which is filmed (s 66DF(a1))
Relevant literature — non-legal articles
The dynamics of child sexual abuse
The following article has been added at [7-510]:
- B Mathews, “Child sexual abuse in Australia: a national evidence base on prevalence, perpetrators, disclosure, and implications for the judiciary” (2026) 38 JOB 1.