Criminal law: November 2025
Can expert certificates bypass standard rules? When is a summary offence ‘related’? These cases answer key procedural questions.
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.
From panic to policy: the state of criminal law reform
Criminal law policy is being made in a more haphazard and less effective manner than before. This article is an attempt to examine why.
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.