Understanding the new rules for children in sexual offence proceedings
The new provisions are designed to help children give their best evidence and implement an alternative trial format, creating novel challenges for trial lawyers.
The new provisions are designed to help children give their best evidence and implement an alternative trial format, creating novel challenges for trial lawyers.
Recent NSWCA decision expands the definition of ‘Aboriginal child’.
The Children’s Guardian Act 2019, which commences 1 March, brings all the functions of the Children’s Guardian together under one Act.
Working With Children laws reformed in response to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse . By SHARMINIE NILES.
The Lidcombe office of the Women’s Legal Service of NSW is a rabbit warren of offices in an unglamorous, two-storey red brick house in a…