Sexual Assault Trials Handbook

Table of Contents

Preliminaries

Agreement for use
Currency
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Disclaimer

[1-000] Offences

[6-000] Recent sexual assault law

[6-500] General directions

[7-000] Relevant literature — legal articles

[7-000] Evidence
[7-180] The judicial role
[7-240] Procedural considerations
[7-495] Further reading

[7-500] Relevant literature — non-legal articles

[7-500] Impact and sequelae of child sexual abuse
[7-520] The dynamics of child sexual abuse
[7-680] Child sexual abuse and the criminal law
[7-860] The prosecution of child sexual assault in NSW
[7-920] Institutional child sexual abuse
[7-960] Investigation and interviewing children in child sexual abuse cases
[7-1020] Challenges facing child witnesses: special measures, witness assistance and intermediaries
[7-1040] Recording evidence and evidentiary issues in child sexual abuse cases
[7-2000] Victims of sexual assault
[7-2500] First nations women and children
[7-3000] Juvenile sex offenders
[7-4000] Online exploitation
[7-9500] Further reading

[8-000] Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse

[9-000] Sexual assault communications privilege

[10-000] Criminal Practice Notes

[10-000] District Court Criminal Practice Note 4 — Media access to sexual assault proceedings heard in camera
[10-100] District Court Criminal Practice Note 5 ― Management of prescribed sexual offence proceedings
[10-200] District Court Criminal Practice Note 6 — Sexual assault case list
[10-220] District Court Criminal Practice Note 8 — Removal of judgments from the internet
[10-265] District Court Criminal Practice Note 18 — Criminal trials
[10-270] District Court Criminal Practice Note 31 — Management of proceedings under the child sexual offence evidence program
[10-280] Supreme Court Practice Note SC CL 8 — Media access to sexual assault proceedings heard in camera

The Judicial Commission of NSW, an independent statutory corporation, is part of the judicial arm of government. It was established by the Judicial Officers Act 1986.

We acknowledge the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the traditional custodians of the land on which the Commission is based, and pay respect to their Elders past and present.