Sentencing Amendment (Assaults On Off-Duty Police) Bill 2018
We have a long-held position based on the evidence that it is not appropriate to set legislation in parliament about mandatory sentencing levels.
We have a long-held position based on the evidence that it is not appropriate to set legislation in parliament about mandatory sentencing levels.
The Victorian circumstance of a lawyer turned police informant had been surrounded in court suppression orders and secrecy.
Two explosive reports released this week expose a justice system that Attorney General, Vanessa Goodwin, has starved of funds, to breaking point.
The Sentencing Amendment Bill debated in Parliament expands the power to make Drug Treatment Orders to the Supreme Court.
The Liberals' attempt to introduce a user-pays levy on Tasmanian courts was so unjust it has even been rejected by the conservative Legislative Council.
The government would do well to heed the advice of Justice Stephen Estcourt QC on court 'user-pays' polices that treat justice as a service that can be bought.
The Greens have in-principle support for judicial review in criminal cases where new evidence has arisen or when a conviction may be unsafe.