A
- Abnormality of mind — see Mental illness
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
- Access
- Accused
- Adjournments
- Admissions of children, Children’s Court, [38-020]
- Affirmations, [64-000], [64-020]
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- interpreters, [14-020]
- Alcohol and drug intoxication — see Drink driving; Drug offences; Involuntary drug and alcohol treatment
-
- community correction order, [16-320]
- Alibi defence, [28-200]
- Amendments, Commonwealth offences, [18-060]
- Appeals
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- application notice proceedings, [52-020]
- bail, [20-800], [52-120]
- civil, [52-080]
- conviction, against, [52-020], [52-060]
- defendant unaware of initial proceedings, [52-020]
- District Court, to, [52-000], [52-060]
- Land and Environment Court, to, [52-000], [52-100]
- relevant legislation, [52-000]
- review of decisions of Local Court, [52-000], [52-020]
- sentence, against, [52-020], [52-060]
- Small Claims Division, [32-140]
- stay of sentencing upon notice of appeal, [52-040], [52-060], [52-100]
- Supreme Court, to, [52-000], [52-040]
- time limits, [52-020], [52-060]
- Application notice proceedings, [52-020]
- Apprehended violence orders
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- abbreviations, [22-000]
- appeals against, [22-120], [52-020]
- appeals to District Court, [22-240]
- application for, [22-020]
- apprehended domestic violence orders, [22-020], [56-080]
- apprehended personal violence orders, [22-020]
- case management orders
-
- PN/22012, application of, [22-080]
- children
- Children’s Court, [38-340]
-
- applications, variation,revocation, [24-040]
- case management, [24-040]
- child witnesses, [24-040]
- Children’s Court Practice Note 8, [24-020]
- evidence, [24-040]
- Family law orders, contact, [24-040]
- identifying information, [24-040]
- introduction, [24-000]
- jurisdiction, [24-020]
- make, vary or revoke, [24-020]
- making orders, [24-040]
- orders, applications, [24-040]
- other orders, [24-040]
- police-initiated orders, protected person/child, [24-040]
- procedures, [24-040]
- proceedings, absence of public, [24-040]
- proceedings, child defendant, [24-020]
- proceedings, considerations, [24-040]
- statutory obligation, [24-040]
- support person, [24-040]
- variation, family law orders, [24-040]
- children, considerations, [22-120]
- consent orders, [22-060], [22-120]
- contested hearings, [22-100]
-
- evidence, giving, [22-100]
- costs, [22-100], [22-160], [56-080]
- domestic violence orders, [22-020]
- duration of, [22-060]
- duration, orders, [22-120]
- eligible persons, [22-020]
- exclusion from premises, [22-080]
- expired AVO, revocation of, [22-120]
- explanation of, [22-060]
- family law orders, alteration of existing, [22-080]
- final orders
- finding of guilt, [22-060]
- finding of guilt, discretion to vary existing order, [22-220]
- first listing, [22-060]
- interim orders, [22-060]
- interstate orders, [22-120]
- interstate orders, registration and variation, [22-220]
- introduction, [22-000]
- Local Court procedure, [22-000]
- matters to consider, [22-080]
- mediation, [22-060]
-
- referral to, [22-080]
- non-publication prohibitions, [22-200]
- objects of the Act, [22-000]
- other pending proceedings, [22-140]
- overview
-
- addresses, non-inclusion of, [22-060]
- personal violence orders, [22-020]
- persons who may seek, [22-020]
- police, [56-080]
- power of the court to make, [22-060]
- procedure for evidence
-
- sexual offences, [22-100]
- procedure if party not present, [22-100]
- property recovery orders, [22-060]
- property recovery, orders, [22-120]
- provisional orders, [22-040], [22-060]
- Pt 6 PN 2/2012
-
- procedures at hearing, [22-100]
- publication, prohibition against, [22-080]
- related family law proceedings, obligation to disclose, [22-080]
- residential address
-
- restrictions, [22-120]
- review, appeal provisions, [22-240]
- right to presence of support person, [22-100]
- service
- sexual offence cases, [22-080]
- statutory power to make orders
-
- test to be applied, [22-120]
- statutory requirements, explaining orders, [22-120]
- stay of orders, presumption against, [22-240]
- stay, presumption against, [22-120]
- types of orders, [22-020]
- variation and revocation of, [22-080], [22-120]
- variation, final/court orders, [22-220]
- vulnerable persons
-
- procedure for evidence, [22-100]
- warrant for arrest of defendant, [22-060]
- warrants, [22-180]
- when orders take effect, [22-120]
- withdrawal of application, [22-060]
- Arrest
- Arrest warrants, [16-080]
- Assault, [16-360]
- Assessment reports
-
- community correction officers, [16-200]
- Community Corrections, [16-200]
- community service work, [16-200]
- home detention, [16-200]
- intensive correction order, [16-200]
- Justice Health, [16-200]
- matters addressed, [16-200]
- Psychiatric/psychological assessment, [16-200]
- request by court, [16-200]
-
- when to request, [16-200]
- sentencing, [16-200]
- Assistance to authorities, and sentencing, [18-120]
- Attendance notices — see Court attendance notices
- Audio visual link (AVL) facilities
-
- committal hearings, [28-120]
- Auslan interpreters, [14-140]
- AVOs — see Apprehended violence orders
B
- Bail
-
- appeal, on, [20-800], [52-120]
- appear, requirement to, [20-020], [20-040]
-
- failure to appear, [20-640]
- applications, [20-120]
- arrest for Commonwealth offences, [18-040]
- bail acknowledgements, [20-540]
- Bail Act 2013, [20-000]
- Children’s Court, [38-040]
-
- release to demonstrate rehabilitation, [38-120]
- conditional release, procedure for, [20-340]
- conditions, [20-360]
- criminal proceedings, Children’s Court, [38-040]
- Cth child sex offences, [20-820]
- decisions by the court, [20-060]
- deferral of sentencing
- definition, [20-040]
- duration, [20-100]
- eligible persons, [20-080]
- extradition cases, [46-060]
- extradition proceedings, [20-230]
- first appearance, upon, [20-160]
- grant, procedures following, [20-480]
- guarantors, [20-740]
- intoxication, deferral of decision, [20-200]
- jurisdictional issues, [20-150]
- Local Court, restrictions on, [20-150]
- Mental Health and Cognitive Impairment Forensic Provisions Act 2020, inquiries under, [30-180]
- offences committed while on, [38-180]
- persons under restraint, [46-040]
- procedure on remand on, [46-060]
- proceedings
- reasons to be recorded, [20-320]
- refusal of, [20-380]
- repeat juvenile offenders, [38-040]
- restrictions on Local Court, [20-150]
- right to release, [20-300]
- right to release, offences carrying, [20-300]
- rules of evidence, [20-260]
- serious offences
- special or exceptional circumstances, [20-300]
- standard of proof, [20-280]
- statutory flow chart, bail decisions — s 16(3), [20-300]
- statutory flow chart, show cause requirement in s 16, [20-300]
- terrorism related offences, [20-300]
- test to be applied, [20-300]
- unacceptable risk test, [20-300]
- variation, [20-660]
- young offenders, [38-040]
- Barristers
- Bench warrants, replacement of, [16-080]
- Body corporate, [18-100], [18-380]
C
- Care and protection
-
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander principles, [40-000]
- Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander
-
- care and permanency plans, [40-080]
- alternatives to care applications, [40-140]
- applications, [40-020]
- breach of care orders, [40-200]
- care applications
-
- registration, [40-140]
- care order, [40-020]
- costs, [40-120]
- emergency care and protection order, [40-020]
- establishment phase, [40-060]
- final care orders, [40-100]
-
- contact orders, [40-100]
- duration, [40-100]
- guardianship order, [40-100]
- Minister, [40-100]
- parental responsibility, [40-100]
- prohibition, [40-100]
- restrictions, [40-100]
- suitability reports and progress review, [40-100]
- supervision orders, [40-100]
- support services, [40-100]
- therapeutic treatment, [40-100]
- undertakings, [40-100]
- variation, [40-100]
- guardianship orders, [40-020]
- hearings, [40-040]
-
- appearance and legal representation, [40-040]
- direct legal representative, [40-040]
- expeditious and non-adversarial, [40-040]
- explanation, [40-040]
- general nature, [40-040]
- guardian ad litem, [40-040]
- independent legal representative, [40-040]
- names and identifying information, publication of, [40-040]
- opportunity to be heard, [40-040]
- persons excluded, [40-040]
- representation, [40-040]
- right to appear, [40-040]
- rules of evidence, [40-040]
- siblings, views of, [40-040]
- standard of proof, [40-040]
- support person, [40-040]
- witnesses, examination and cross-examination of, [40-040]
- interim orders, [40-020]
-
- variation, [40-160]
- objects, [40-000]
- paramountcy principle, [40-000]
- parent capacity orders, [40-180]
- permanent placement principle, [40-000]
- placement, [40-080]
-
- Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander, permanency planning, [40-080]
- assessment, [40-080]
- care plans, [40-080]
- Children’s Court Clinic, [40-080]
- consideration of care and permanency plans, [40-080]
- dispute resolution, [40-080]
- permanency planning, [40-080]
- restoration, realistic possibility of, [40-080]
- principles, [40-000]
- representation
- rescission of care orders, [40-160]
- serious or persistent conflict, [40-220]
-
- alternative parenting plan, [40-220]
- support person, [40-040]
-
- guardian ad litem, [40-040]
- unacceptable risk of harm test, [40-000]
- variation
- variation of care orders, [40-160]
- case conference certificates
-
- when not required, [28-120]
- Case management — see Court and case management, Local Court
- Character references — see Testimonials, by judicial officers
- Child protection register, child offenders, [38-240]
- Children — see ; Children’s Court;
- Children’s Court — see
-
- admissions, [38-020]
- application of the Young Offenders Act, [38-320]
- apprehended violence orders, [38-340]
- background reports, [38-100]
- bail, [38-040]
-
- release to demonstrate rehabilitation, [38-120]
- bonds, [38-080], [38-120]
- breach of good behaviour bond, probation and release for compliance with outcome plan, [38-300]
- breach of suspended sentence, [38-300]
- Care and protection, [40-000]
- cautions, [38-080], [38-120], [38-320]
-
- non-compliance, [38-320]
- closed court for criminal proceedings, [38-020]
- committal
- Commonwealth offences, [38-020]
- community service orders, [38-080], [38-140], [38-120]
- compensation orders, [38-080], [38-280]
- control orders, [38-080], [38-180]
- costs, [38-280]
- criminal jurisdiction, [38-000]
- criminal procedure, [38-000], [38-020]
- detention
- discharge prior to expiration of non-parole period, [38-180]
- dismissal of charge, [38-080], [38-120]
- doli incapax, [38-020]
- driving matters, [38-020]
- explaining the proceedings, [38-020]
- fine and bond, [38-120]
- fines, [38-080], [38-120]
- fingerprinting of children, [38-020], [38-080]
- hearing juvenile and adult cases together, [38-060]
- hierarchy of penalties, [38-080]
- homeless offenders, [38-040]
- licence disqualification or forfeiture, [38-200]
- mental health, [38-260]
- non-association orders, [38-220]
- other offences, taking into account, [38-020]
- outcome plans, [38-320]
- out-of-home care, [38-340]
- parental responsibility, [38-080]
- parole orders, [38-180], [42-000]
- place restriction orders, [38-220]
- placement on child protection register, [38-240]
- presence of responsible person, [38-020]
- principles binding the court, [38-020]
- probation orders, [38-080], [38-140]
- records, [38-080]
- referral
- rehabilitation, [38-080]
- release on bail to demonstrate rehabilitation, [38-120]
- release on condition to comply with outcome plan, [38-120]
- sentencing, [38-080], [38-120]–[38-180]
- supervision, [38-140]
- suspended control orders, [38-080]
- suspended sentences, [38-080], [38-160]
- transfer of back up and related offences, [38-060]
- victim impact statements, [38-080]
- victims’ compensation levy, [38-280]
- youth justice conference, [38-080], [38-120], [38-320]
- Circumstantial evidence — see Evidence
- Clinical Nurse Consultants, [30-000]
- Closed court, Children’s Court, [38-020]
- Cognitive impairment — see Mental Health and Cognitive Impairment Forensic Provisions Act 2020, inquiries under
- Committal proceedings
- Commonwealth committal proceedings
-
- Witnesses, [28-140]
- Commonwealth Criminal Code 1995, [18-000]
- Commonwealth offences
-
- amendments, [18-060]
- arrest for, [18-040]
- bail
-
- terrorism and child sex offences, [18-020]
- Biosecurity Act, under, [18-320]
- challenges re jurisdiction, [18-060]
- child abuse, [18-280]
- child sex offences, [18-020]
- child sex offenders, [18-120]
- commencement of prosecutions, [18-060]
- Commonwealth Criminal Code 1995, [18-000]
- community service orders, [18-100]
- compensation, [18-120]
- discharge without conviction, [18-100]
- dismissal without conviction, [18-100]
- explanation of penalty, [18-080]
- Financial Transaction Reports Act 1988 (Cth), under, [18-380]
- fines, [18-100]
- general sentencing options, [18-100]
- head sentence/non-parole period ratio, [18-120]
- intensive correction orders, [18-100]
- jurisdiction, [18-020]
- Migration Act, under, [18-340]
- money laundering offences, [18-260]
- multiple, [18-060]
- narcotic offences, [18-240]
- non-parole periods, [18-120]
- overview of relevant legislation, [18-000]
- passport offences, [18-360]
- pecuniary penalty under recognizance, [18-100]
- persons suffering from mental illness, [18-140]
- procedures, [18-060]
- Proceeds of Crime Act, under, [18-400]
- recognizance release orders, [18-120]
- recognizances, [18-080], [18-100]
- relating to property worth less than $500, [18-060]
- reparation for loss, [18-120]
- sentences of imprisonment, [18-080], [18-120]
- sentencing policy, [18-080]
- social security fraud, [18-220]
- State courts’ jurisdiction, [18-020]
- summary and indictable, [18-060], [18-240]
- suspension of imprisonment, [18-100]
- table of penalties, [18-160]
- taking other offences into account, [18-080]
- Taxation Administration Act, under, [18-180], [18-200]
- Community correction order, [16-320]
-
- additional conditions, [16-160]
- alcohol or drug abstention, [16-320]
- breach, [16-320]
- cannot be imposed ex parte, [16-080]
- commencement, [16-320]
- community service work, [16-180], [16-320]
- conditions, [16-320]
- curfew, [16-180], [16-320]
- domestic violence, [16-140], [16-320]
- limitation, [16-320]
- maximum term, [16-320]
- multiple orders, [16-180], [16-320]
- non-association, [16-320]
- rehabilitation or treatment programs, [16-320]
- sample order, [16-320]
- sentencing, [16-120]
- standard conditions, [16-160]
- supervision, [16-160], [16-320]
- transitional provisions, table, [16-500]
- Community corrections order
-
- non-custodial sentences, table, [16-480]
- Community service orders
- Community service work
-
- assessment reports, [16-200]
- Community treatment orders, [30-200]
- Compensation and restitution
-
- Commonwealth offences, [16-100], [18-080], [18-120]
- factors to consider, [16-100]
- magistrate’s power to award, [16-100]
- maximum award, [16-100]
- no conviction recorded, [16-240]
- orders for, Children’s Court, [38-080], [38-280]
- prison discipline, [68-100]
- restitution of property, [16-100]
- time for making order, [16-100]
- time to pay, [16-100]
- Victims Compensation Tribunal, [16-100]
- Concurrent sentences — see Cumulative and concurrent sentences
- Conditional release order, [16-260]
-
- additional conditions, [16-160]
- breach and revocation, [16-260]
- cannot be imposed ex parte, [16-080]
- commencement, [16-260]
- conditions, [16-260]
- conviction, [16-260]
- discharge, [16-260]
- domestic violence, [16-140]
- maximum term, [16-260]
- multiple orders, [16-180], [16-260]
- non-custodial sentences, table, [16-480]
- sample orders, [16-260]
- sentencing, [16-120]
- standard conditions, [16-160]
- supervison, [16-160]
- transitional provisions, table, [16-500]
- without conviction, [16-260]
- Conditional release order without conviction
-
- sentencing, [16-120]
- Conditional release, without passing of sentence, [18-100]
- Confiscation
-
- appropriate officer, definition, [36-020]
- Confiscation of Proceeds of Crime Act 1989, [36-000]
- conviction of a serious offence, definition, [36-020]
- drug proceeds order, [36-040], [36-080]
-
- sample, [36-080]
- forfeiture order, [36-040], [36-080]
-
- sample, [36-080]
- freezing notices, [36-040]
- legal expenses, reasonable, [36-100]
-
- case law, [36-100]
- Local Court jurisdiction, [36-040]
- orders, [36-040]
- pecuniary penalty order, [36-040], [36-080]
-
- sample, [36-080]
- serious offences, definition, [36-020]
- tainted property
- Consecutive interpreting, [14-100]
- Consent orders, [22-060]
-
- Sexual offences, [5-000]
- Consumer protection
- Contact orders
-
- conflict with apprehended violence orders, [22-080]
- Contempt
-
- adjournment for defence, [48-080]
- alternatives to charge, [48-040]
- charge
- defence, adjournment, [48-100]
- disrespectful behaviour, [48-180]
- face of the court, in, [48-020]
- hearing, [48-120]
- introduction, [48-000]
- offence, nature of, [48-000]
- penalty, [48-140]
- purging, [48-160]
- suggested approach, [48-060]
- summary charge, [48-080]
- summary charge, alternatives to, [48-040]
- Supreme Court, referral to, [48-060]
- Control orders, [38-080], [38-180]
- Co-operation
-
- assistance to authorities, [18-120]
- Correctional centres — see Prison discipline
- Costs
-
- care and protection, [40-120]
- Costs, civil matters — see Witnesses, expenses of
- Costs, criminal matters
-
- amount, [56-020]
- apprehended violence orders, [56-080]
- awarding costs against a public informant, [56-020]
- awarding costs to defendant, [56-060]
- circumstances in which costs may be ordered, [56-020]
- costs covered by order, [16-060]
- Costs in Criminal Cases Act, application, [56-060]
- costs orders, [16-060], [56-040]
- determining quantum of, [14-140]
- indictable offences, [28-200]
- “just and reasonable” grounds to award, [56-040]
- no conviction recorded, [16-240]
- onus on applicants, [56-020]
- penalty, [56-120]
- prerequisites for section 2 certificates, [56-060]
- procedural fairness, [56-020]
- proceedings initiated without reasonable cause, [56-040]
- quantum, [56-120]
- reasons, [56-120]
- reasons to be given for orders, [14-140]
- Suitors’ Fund Act, application, [56-100]
- time for making application, [56-120]
- time for making applications for, [14-140]
- time to pay, [16-060]
- unreasonable failure to investigate matters, [56-040]
- who may seek, [56-000]
- Court and case management, Local Court
- Court attendance notices
- Credit contracts
- Crimes Act 1914 (Cth), scope of, [18-000]
- Criminal Code Act, scope of, [18-000]
- Criminal convictions, review of, [52-000], [52-020]
- Criminal Listing Authority, [14-060]
- Criminal matter, defined, [46-200]
- Criminal proceedings
- Cross-examination, [28-160]
- Cumulative and concurrent sentences
- Currency transactions, [18-380]
- Custodial sentences — see ; Control orders; Imprisonment
- Customs offences, [18-300]
D
- Deaths
-
- cause and manner, distinguished, [44-020]
- coroner, role of, [44-000]
-
- jurisdiction, [44-020]
- health-related procedure, definition, [44-020]
- institutions, in, [44-020]
- lawful custody, in, [44-020]
- medical deaths, [44-020]
- missing person, [44-020]
- reportable, [44-020]
-
- health-related procedure, [44-020]
- sensitive information, releasing, [44-100]
- suspicious, [44-020]
- unknown causes, [44-020]
- Debt recovery — see Small Claims Division, Local Court
- Defendants, absence of, [16-080]
- Department of Corrective Services, [68-060]
- Detention orders — see Control orders
- Detention, of children — see Control orders
- Deterrence, federal offenders, [18-080]
- Discounts, in sentencing
-
- assistance to authorities, [18-120]
- Dismissal
- District Court
- Domestic violence, [8-000] — see also Apprehended violence orders
-
- community correction order, [16-140], [16-320]
- conditional release order, [16-140]
- court appointed questioners
- evidence, [8-030], [8-040]
- full-time detention, [16-140]
- general, [8-020]
- home detention, [16-140]
- intensive correction order, [16-140], [16-340]
- juries, [8-120]
-
- court appointed questioner, [8-120]
- persons in need of protection (PINOP), [22-060]
- recorded statement, [8-060]
- self-represented defendant
-
- court appointed questioners, [8-110]
- supervision, [16-160]
- transitional provisions, table, [16-500]
- victim’s safety, [16-140]
- Drink driving, [4-000]
- Driving offences — see Drink driving; Traffic offences
- Drug offences
-
- narcotic offences, [18-240]
- Drug treatment
-
- Involuntary, and alcohol, [60-000]
- Dual criminality, [46-140]
- Duty, evasion of payment, [18-300]
E
- Evidence
-
- admissibility
-
- overseas extradition, [46-120]
- apprehended violence order proceedings, [22-080]
- barristers, conduct of, [70-040], [70-080]
- children, [10-000]
- coronial witness, [44-100]
- dismissal due to insufficient evidence, [16-020]
- indictable offences, [28-080], [28-160], [28-180], [28-200]
-
- audio visual link, use of, [28-120]
- intellectually impaired persons, [10-000]
- taking of, under the Extradition Act, [46-240]
- vulnerable persons, [10-000]
- Ex parte proceedings
- Explosions, inquiries into, [44-000]
- Extension of arrest period, Commonwealth offences, [18-040]
- Extradition — see New Zealand, extradition to; Overseas extradition
-
- accusations not made in good faith, [46-160]
- Acts governing, [46-000]
- assistance in criminal matters with foreign countries, [46-200]
- Attorney-General, notice by, [46-120]
- Australia, to, [46-180]
-
- evidence, taking, [46-240]
- authentication of documents, [46-140]
- bail, [46-060]
- consent to surrender, [46-140]
- determining who is an “extraditable person”, [46-140]
- entitlement to expenses, [46-060]
- evidence, taking, [46-240]
- hearings, [46-140]
- interstate, [46-020]
- objections, [46-140]
- onus of proof, [46-160]
- powers of the court, person under restraint, [46-040]
- procedure on remand on bail, [46-060]
- provisional arrest warrants, [46-120]
- release of persons unnecessarily detained, [46-080]
- relief from, [46-080]
- state powers of, [46-020]
- suppression orders, [46-080]
- types, [46-000]
- waiver, [46-120]
- warrants
F
- Failure to appear
- False accounts, [18-380]
- Financial transactions, offences under the Act, [18-380]
- Fine
-
- non-custodial sentences, table, [16-480]
- Fines
-
- capacity to pay, [16-300], [18-100], [38-120]
- Children’s Court, [38-080], [38-120]
- Commonwealth offences, [18-100]
- conviction with no other penalty, [16-280]
- imposition of recognizance, [16-300], [18-100]
- imprisonment not to be imposed for non-payment, [18-120]
- in lieu of imprisonment, [18-100]
- moiety, [16-300]
- penalty units, [16-300], [18-100]
- sentencing, [16-120]
- time to pay, [16-300]
- Fingerprinting, [16-440], [38-020], [38-080]
- Fire inquiries, [44-000], [44-180]
- First instance warrants, replacement of, [16-080]
- Fixed terms, [16-360]
- Foreign countries
- Forensic procedures
-
- application, nature of, [58-000]
- attendance of suspects, [58-060]
- convicted serious indictable offender application, [58-000]
- non-publication of suspect identity, [58-040]
- orders, [58-040]
- procedural requirements, [58-040]
- retention of material, order for, [58-000]
-
- extension of time, [58-000]
- substantive matters, [58-020]
- untested former offender application, [58-000]
- volunteers, [58-000]
- Forms of orders, Children’s Court
- Fraud, [18-220]
G
- Good behaviour bonds
- Governors, of prisons, [68-020], [68-040], [68-100]
- Guilty pleas — see Not guilty pleas
I
- Identification
- Importing/exporting, [18-300]
- Imprisonment — see Cumulative and concurrent sentences; Parole; Prison discipline
-
- cannot be imposed ex parte, [16-080]
- commencement and expiry of sentences, [16-360]
- Commonwealth offences, [18-080], [18-120]
-
- child sex offenders, [18-120]
- consecutive sentences, [16-380]
- conviction with no other penalty, [16-280]
- custodial sentences, table, [16-460]
- failure to pay reparation, [18-120]
- fines in lieu of, [18-100]
- fixed term versus non-parole period and total term, [16-360]
- form of orders, [16-380], [18-120]
- full or partial suspension of, [18-100]
- legal aid for prisoners, [68-060]
- non-custodial sentences, table, [16-480]
- non-parole periods, [16-360], [18-120]
- preliminary steps in imposing term of, [16-360]
- recognizance release orders, [18-120]
- representation for prisoners, [68-060]
- restrictions, [18-120]
- structure of sentence, [16-360]
- Indictable offences
-
- application to waive committal hearing, [28-200]
- committal, [28-040]
- committal proceedings, [28-020]
- Commonwealth offences, [18-060]
- costs, [28-200]
- Customs Act, under, [18-300]
- Director of Public Prosecutions role, [28-000]
- discharge order, form, [28-200]
- evidence in committal proceedings, [28-000]
- evidence, form of prosecution, [28-080]
- giving warnings, [28-180]
- guilty pleas, [28-060]
- hearing application for witness to attend, [28-140]
- information to be given to charged person, [28-120]
- initial determination under s 62, [28-180]
- Magistrate’s role, [28-040]
- need to comply with Div 5 of Criminal Procedure Act, [28-060]
- opportunity to answer charge, [28-180]
- paper committals, [28-080]
- tests of evidence, [28-180]
- unrepresented defendant, [28-120]
- what constitutes an indictable offence, [28-020]
- Inquests — see Deaths;
-
- access to coronial material, [44-080]
- assessment of brief, [44-080]
- civil litigation and, [44-100]
- conflicts of interest, [44-100]
- coroner, role of, [44-000]
- counsel assisting, [44-100]
- court case, distinguished, [44-100]
- dispensing with, [44-080]
- findings, [44-100], [44-100]
- fire inquiries, [44-000], [44-180]
- First Nations people, [44-100]
- Government agencies, role of, [44-100]
- leave to appear, [44-100]
- legal aid, [44-100]
- medical concerns, [44-080]
- model litigant policy, [44-100]
- next of kin, [44-080]
- Non-publication orders, [44-100]
- persons of interest
-
- appearance, [44-100]
- place of, [44-100]
- preparation for, [44-100]
- privilege against self-incrimination, [44-100]
- procedure, [44-100]
- psychiatric concerns, [44-080]
- recommendations, making, [44-140]
- requests, [44-080]
- requirement to hold, [44-080]
- sensitivity towards grieving families, [44-100]
-
- family statement, [44-100]
- submissions, [44-100]
- Supreme Court applications, [44-160]
- suspension, [44-120]
-
- report to the DPP, [44-120]
- witnesses, [44-100]
- Insanity — see Mental illness
- Institutions
-
- reportable deaths, [44-020]
- Intellectual disability
- Intensive correction order, [16-340]
-
- additional conditions, [16-160]
- assessment reports, [16-200], [16-340], [16-460]
- cannot be imposed ex parte, [16-080]
- commencement, [16-340]
- community safety, [16-340]
- community service work, [16-180]
- conditions, [16-340], [16-460]
-
- additional, [16-340]
- alcohol/drugs, [16-340]
- community service work, [16-340]
- curfew, [16-340]
- electronic monitoring, [16-340]
- further, [16-340]
- home detention, [16-340]
- non-association, [16-340]
- place restriction, [16-340]
- rehabilitation, [16-340]
- revocation/breach, [16-340]
- standard, [16-340]
- suspension, [16-340]
- curfew, [16-180]
- custodial sentences, table, [16-460]
- domestic violence, [16-140], [16-340]
- maximum length, [16-460]
- minor, [16-340]
- multiple orders, [16-180], [16-340]
- non-parole period, [16-340], [16-460]
- restrictions, [16-340]
- revocation, [16-340]
- sample order, [16-340]
- sentencing, [16-120]
- standard conditions, [16-160]
- supervision, [16-160]
- transitional provisions, table, [16-500]
- Intensive correction orders
- International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, [14-020]
- Interpreters
-
- assessing need for, [14-000], [14-040]
- Auslan interpreters, [14-140]
- capacity to communicate with witness, [14-120]
- deaf and hearing impaired persons, [14-120], [14-140]
- ensuring procedural fairness, [14-100]
- guidelines for magistrates and judges, [14-180]
- national accreditation, [14-080]
- oaths and affirmations by, [14-020], [64-020]
- persons in custody prior to charge, for, [14-020]
- problems with interpretation, [14-160]
- procedure, [14-100]
- provision of, [14-060]
- qualifications of, [14-080]
- witnesses’ right to, [14-000]
-
- legislative provisions, [14-020]
- Interstate extradition, [46-020]
- Intervention program
-
- sentencing, [16-120]
- Involuntary drug and alcohol treatment, [60-000]
J
- Joined charges, social security fraud, [18-220]
- Judicial discretion
- Jurisdiction
- Juveniles — see Youthful offenders
L
- Land and Environment Court, appeals to, [52-000], [52-100]
- Legal aid, [68-060]
- Legal representation — see Representation
- Local Court — see Court and case management, Local Court; Small Claims Division, Local Court
M
- Magistrates — see Court and case management, Local Court; Visiting Magistrates
-
- power to end evidence of a witness, [28-160]
- Manslaughter — see Murder
- May v O’Sullivan dismissal, [16-020]
- Medical practitioners
-
- reportable deaths, [44-020]
- Mental capacity — see Mental illness
- Mental Health Act 2007, inquiries under
- Mental Health and Cognitive Impairment Forensic Provisions Act 2020
- Mental Health and Cognitive Impairment Forensic Provisions Act 2020, inquiries under
-
- adjournment, [30-060]
- admission for purpose other than assessment, [30-200]
- application by defendant, [30-060]
-
- documentation, [30-060]
- bail, [30-120], [30-180]
- breach proceedings, [30-100]
- defendants in custody, [30-240]
- definitions, [30-040]
- detention, [30-140]
- discharge, [30-060]
-
- suggested order, [30-080]
- discretionary factors, [30-060]
-
- public interest, [30-060]
- enforceability of conditional discharge orders, [30-080]
- orders under s 19, [30-120]
-
- suggested order, [30-120]
- persons found to be mentally ill, [30-120]
- persons not found to be mentally ill, [30-120]
- prosecution, s 19 orders, [30-160]
- suggested conditional discharge order, [30-080]
- suggested orders, [30-060]
- Mental Health and Cognitive Impairment Forensic Provisions Act 2020, inquiries under Part 3
-
- sentencing for Commonwealth offences, [18-140]
- Mental Health and Cognitive Impairment Forensic Provisions Act 2020, inquiries under Pts 2 and 3
-
- overview of, [30-000]
- Mental health impairment — see Mental Health and Cognitive Impairment Forensic Provisions Act 2020, inquiries under
- Mental illness — see ; Mental Health Act 2007, inquiries under; Psychological assessment
- Migration offences, [18-340]
- Minor offences, [18-120], [68-020]
- Misleading or deceptive conduct
-
- barristers, [70-000]
- Missing persons
-
- suspected death, [44-020]
- Multiple offences
-
- non-custodial sentences, table, [16-480]
- Multiple offences, Commonwealth, [18-060], [18-220]
-
- custodial sentences, table, [16-460]
- Murder
-
- reportable deaths, [44-020]
N
- Narcotic offences — see Drug offences
- New Zealand, extradition to
-
- accusations not made in good faith, [46-160]
- applicability, [46-160]
- arrest and remand on endorsed or provisional warrants, [46-160]
- endorsement of New Zealand warrants, [46-160]
- evidence contradicting allegation, [46-160]
- onus of proof, [46-160]
- order for release, [46-160]
- provisional arrest warrants, [46-160]
- release from remand, [46-160]
- review of order, [46-160]
- search warrants, [46-160]
- surrender proceedings, [46-160]
- unjust or oppressive, [46-160]
- No conviction recorded, [16-240], [18-100]
-
- unsuitability to various offences, [16-240]
- Non-appearance — see Failure to appear
- Non-association or place restriction order
-
- cannot be imposed ex parte, [16-080]
- Non-custodial sentences — see ;
- Non-English speaking witnesses — see Witnesses
- Non-parole periods
- Non-publication and suppression orders
- Not guilty pleas, [68-060] — see also Guilty pleas
-
- barristers, conduct of, [70-020]
O
- Oaths
- Onus of proof
-
- extradition proceedings, [46-160]
- Orders — see Apprehended violence orders; ; Community service orders; Contact orders; Control orders; ; Forms of orders, Children’s Court; ; Parole; Probation orders, Children’s Court; ;
-
- Assessment report, [16-000]
- Community Correction Order, [16-000], [16-120], [16-320]
- Community treatment orders, [30-200]
- Conditional Release Order, [16-000], [16-120], [16-260]
- conditional release order without conviction, [16-120]
- conviction, [16-120]
- conviction with no other penalty, [16-280]
- custodial sentences, table, [16-460]
- domestic violence, [16-140]
- fine, [16-120]
- Intensive Correction Order, [16-000], [16-120], [16-340]
- intervention program, [16-120]
- Mental Health and Cognitive Impairment Forensic Provisions Act 2020, orders under s 19, [30-120]
- multiple orders, [16-180]
- non-custodial sentences, table, [16-480]
- transitional provisions, table, [16-500]
- Outstanding charges, sentencing by reference to, [16-400]
- Overseas extradition — see New Zealand, extradition to
P
- Paper committals, [28-080]
- Parole
- Passports
-
- Commonwealth offences involving, [18-360]
- Pecuniary penalties under recognizances, [18-100]
- Penalties — see Fines
- Persons in custody, [46-080]
- Persons under restraint, and extradition, [46-040]
- Pleas — see Guilty pleas; Not guilty pleas
- Police
- Pre-sentence reports
-
- assessment reports, [16-200]
- Prison discipline
-
- adjournment of hearings, [68-060]
- antecedents, [68-060]
- appeals against decisions of Visiting Magistrates, [68-120]
- appointment of Visiting Magistrates, [68-020]
- breaches, [68-020]
- compensation, [68-100]
- cumulative punishment, [68-100]
- forms of orders, [68-140]
- inspections by Visiting Magistrates, [68-020]
- jurisdiction of Visiting Magistrates, [68-040]
- other criminal proceedings for the same offence, [68-140]
- penalties, [68-080]
- procedure at hearings before Visiting Magistrates, [68-060]
- provision for inquiries, [68-020]
- recording of punishment, [68-100]
- relevant legislation, [68-000]
- standard of proof, [68-060]
- transfer of proceedings, [68-040]
- Probation orders, Children’s Court, [38-080], [38-140]
- Proceeds of crime
-
- commonwealth offences, [18-400]
- confiscation — see Confiscation
- Prohibited drugs — see Drug offences
- Prohibited imports, [18-300], [18-320]
- Property
-
- confiscation — see Confiscation
- management orders, [36-060]
- Property, in Family Law matters
-
- property recovery orders, [22-060]
- Prosecutors
-
- duties, [70-100]
- Provisional warrants, extradition, [46-120], [46-160]
-
- remand, [46-120]
- Psychological assessment, [30-120]
-
- assessment reports, [16-200]
- Publication
-
- non-publication and suppression orders — see Non-publication and suppression orders
R
- Recognizances
- References — see Testimonials, by judicial officers
- Rehabilitation, [16-220]
-
- deferral of sentencing, [16-220]
- Remote witness video facilities, [12-000]
- Reparation — see Compensation and restitution
- Representation — see Unrepresented parties
- Restitution — see Compensation and restitution
- Right of appearance, [66-000]–[66-040]
- Road accidents
S
- Search warrants
- Security
- Self-incrimination, privilege against, [44-100], [44-100]
- Self-represented litigants
- Sentencing — see Appeals; Assistance to authorities, and sentencing; ; Cumulative and concurrent sentences; Fines; Home detention; Imprisonment; ; Parole; ; Pre-sentence reports
-
- assessment reports, [16-200]
- assistance to authorities, [18-120]
- breaches of recognizances, [18-100]
- Children’s Court, [38-080], [38-120]–[38-180]
-
- background reports, [38-100]
- commencement and expiry of sentence, [18-120]
- Commonwealth offences, [18-080], [18-100], [18-120]
- community correction order, [16-120], [16-320]
- conditional release order, [16-120], [16-260]
- conditional release without sentencing, [18-100]
- consideration of other offences, [18-080]
- conviction with no other penalty, [16-280]
- correcting errors, [16-420]
- custodial sentences, table, [16-460]
- deferral of, [16-220], [18-120]
- deterrent effect of, [18-080]
- dismissal, [16-120], [16-240]
- domestic violence, [16-140]
- fine, [16-120]
- fines in lieu of imprisonment, [18-100]
- head sentence/non-parole period ratio, [18-120]
- intensive correction order, [16-120], [16-340]
- intervention program, [16-120], [16-220]
- jurisdiction
-
- Local Court, [16-120]
- matters to be taken into account, [18-080]
- no conviction recorded, [16-240], [18-100]
- non-custodial sentences, table, [16-480]
- persons suffering from mental illness, [18-140]
- principles, [38-080]
- prisoners serving federal sentence, [18-120]
- reduction for promised co-operation, [18-080]
- reference to outstanding charges, by, [16-400]
- rehabilitation, [16-220]
- sentencing principles in taxation offences, [18-180]
- severity of, [18-080]
- special circumstances, [16-360]
- stay of, upon notice of appeal, [52-040], [52-060], [52-100]
- suspended sentences, [38-080], [38-160]
- transitional provisions, table, [16-500]
- Youth Koori Court, [38-080]
- Sexual offences, [28-140], [38-240]
-
- Directions, [5-000]
- Small Claims Division, Local Court
- Smuggling, [18-300]
- Social security fraud, [18-220]
- Special reasons, committal hearings, [28-140]
- Standard of proof — see Onus of proof
- Standards, in court management — see Court and case management, Local Court
- State Coroner — see ; Deaths; Inquests
-
- circulars, [44-200]
- distressing information, releasing, [44-100]
- functus officio, [44-080]
- key questions, [44-020]
- National Coronial Information Scheme, [44-140]
- recommendations, making
- reports, form and content, [44-020]
-
- sample forms, [44-020]
- resources, [44-000], [44-200]
- role of, [44-000]
- Supreme Court applications, [44-160]
- State courts’ jurisdiction
-
- Commonwealth offences, [18-020]
- State powers
-
- extradition, [46-020]
- Substantial reasons
-
- committal hearings, [28-140]
- Summary offences
- Summonses, [52-040]
- Suppression orders, extradition, [46-080]
- Supreme Court
- Surrender hearings — see New Zealand, extradition to
- Suspended sentences, [38-080]
-
- children, [38-160]
T
- Tainted property, [18-400]
- Taxation offences, [18-180], [18-200]
- Testimonials
-
- judicial officers, by, [72-000]
- Total terms, [16-360]
- Traffic offences — see Drink driving
-
- alcohol-related offences
-
- table, [2-020]
- alcohol-testing offences
-
- table, [2-040]
- appeal, [2-000]
- Children’s Court
-
- licence disqualification or forfeiture, [38-200]
- conviction with no other penalty, [16-280]
- Crimes Act 1900
-
- table, [2-040]
- dismissal of, [16-040], [16-240]
- disqualifications
-
- removal of, [2-000]
- driving licence suspension
-
- table, [2-040]
- driving licence unlawful use
-
- table, [2-040]
- drug-related offences
-
- table, [2-020]
- drug-testing offences
-
- table, [2-040]
- guideline judgment, [2-000], [2-040]
- heavy vehicle
-
- table, [2-040]
- imprisonment, [2-000]
- interlock program
-
- interlock orders, [2-000]
- intervention program, [2-040]
- jurisdiction, [2-000]
- key provisions, [2-000]
- Law Enforcement (Powers and Responsibilities) Act 2002
-
- table, [2-040]
- licence suspension, [2-000]
- limitations, [2-000]
- major offence, [2-000]
- major offences, [2-020]
- multiple major offences, [2-000]
- negligent driving
-
- table, [2-040]
- never-eligible offence, [2-000]
- offence-free period, [2-000]
- registration
-
- table, [2-040]
- Road Rules 2014, [2-000]
- serious driving offences
-
- table, [2-020]
- speeding offences
-
- table, [2-040]
- street racing
-
- table, [2-040]
- unsafe loads
-
- table, [2-040]
U
- Uncontrollable children — see Control orders
- Unrepresented parties — see Representation
V
- Victim Impact statements
-
- Children’s Court, [38-080]
- Victims Compensation Tribunal, [16-100]
- Victims of crime, directions to attend hearing, [28-140]
- Victims support levy, [38-280]
- Video facilities, remote, for witnesses, [12-000]
- Video link, between District Court and Remand Centre, [28-220]
- Violent offences — see Apprehended violence orders; Domestic violence
- Visiting Magistrates
-
- appeals against decisions of, [68-120]
- appointment, [68-020]
- imposition of cumulative punishment, [68-100]
- jurisdiction, [68-040]
- may order compensation, [68-100]
- penalties imposed by, [68-080]
- prison inspections, [68-020]
- procedure at hearings before, [68-060]
- recording of punishment, [68-100]
- transfer of proceedings, [68-040]
- Vulnerable person
- Vulnerable witnesses
-
- Commonwealth committal proceedings, [28-140]
W
- Warrants — see Extradition
- Witnesses — see Interpreters
-
- children as, [10-000]
- cross-examination, [28-160]
- directions to attend hearing, [28-140]
- magistrates’ power to end evidence of, [28-160]
- non-English speaking, [14-040], [14-100]
- oaths and affirmations by, [64-020]
- remote witness video facilities, [12-000]
- right to interpreters, [14-000]
-
- legislative provisions, [14-020]
- Small Claims Division, [32-080]
- Words and phrases