The Judicial College website has been revamped, and now features RSS feeds for updates to its publications. The actual feed is a little hard to find. Tip: look for the standard feed icon....The College provides a link to an RSS reader, but I recommend Google's free reader.Once you subscribe to the feed, any updates to …
Month: October 2009
Megaphone diplomacy
From January 1 2010, under s 139 of the Evidence Act 2008 a caution against self-incriminination will need to be given to every suspect who an investigating offical believes has committed an offence. If not given, any subsequent admissions may be excluded under s 138 as having been improperly obtained.That's a change from the current …
Bar News — already sprung?
I had a gripe back in August about there being no winter edition of the Bar News, and no explanation.Having seen the publication date for the spring edition also come and go with no change to the Victorian Bar webpage, I contacted co-editor Georgina Schoff and asked her whether something was being readied to roll …
Lumping to avoid double jeopardy
A very useful judgment for defence advocates was handed down by Appeal Justices Neave, Lasry and Redlich last week in R v Bac Al Nguyen Vu.It's a common practice in the summary jurisdiction for the prosecution to agree to amend charges on a plea of guilty and reduce the overall number of counts an accused …
New magistrates appointed
The Attorney-General today appointed three new magistrates — Susan Armour, Julie O’Donnell and Jack Vandersteen — and two new justices to the Supreme Court — Terry Forrest QC and Dr Karin Emerton.