Key developments
- Consultation: consent in relation to sexual offences
- Prosecution Guidelines consultation
- Darkinjung Delivery Framework
- Positive results from the Bourke Maranguka Justice Reinvestment Project
- Aboriginal Social Housing – Draft Strategic Framework
- Family And Community Services ‘Guardianship Taskforce’
- Australia’s implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action
- Australian Citizenship Amendment (Strengthening the Citizenship Loss Provisions) Bill 2018
- Sex Discrimination Amendment (Removing Discrimination Against Students) Bill 2019
- 2019-2020 Pre-Budget Submission
Consultation: consent in relation to sexual offences
The Criminal Law Committee contributed to a submission to the NSW Law Reform Commission’s consultation paper on consent in relation to sexual offences. The Law Society submitted that from a criminal justice perspective, the current Crimes Act 1900 (NSW) s 61HE strikes the right balance between the complainant, who states she/he did not consent (to a sexual act) and the accused, who states he/she did not know that the complainant was not consenting.
