Criminal law: May 2025
Useful precedent on the use of evidence by audio-visual link and appropriateness of the guideline judgment for sentencing break, enter and steal matters.
Criminal law: March 2025
Useful precedent on the mental element of fraud offences and the application of mental health diversion provisions. By THOMAS SPOHR.
Criminal law: February 2025
Useful precedent on the degree of knowledge needed for drug supply offences and when an AVO cannot be revoked. By THOMAS SPOHR.
Criminal law: December 2024
The CCA considers discounts for ‘super call-over’ pleas and section 66 NSW sentencing rules for federal offenders. By THOMAS SPOHR.
Criminal law: November 2024
Criminal cases exploring sentencing by reference to a ranges of seriousness, and discounts involving mandatory minimum sentences. By THOMAS SPOHR.
Meatball lawyering: how duty lawyers are first responders
New research urges us to rethink what it means to be a duty lawyer and suggests this could address many issues in criminal justice.
Criminal law: September 2024
The CCA considers the meaning of ‘suffers or permits’ for joint offending and how rolled up facts impact sentencing. By THOMAS SPOHR.
Criminal law: August 2024
The NSWCCA considers witness credibility arguments in child sex matters and unusual liability in joint criminal enterprise. By THOMAS SPOHR.
Metacrime – can it be stopped?
The three-dimensional, immersive online environments of the meta verse could be enabling a new form of digital lawlessness.
Crossing the line
Road trauma is a devastating reality across Australia, but is the law doing enough to prevent it happening and appropriately dealing with its aftermath?
Criminal law: July 2024
The NSWCCA considers the ‘common humanity’ test and consideration of Form 1 offences in sentencing. By THOMAS SPOHR.