Last Tuesday the Magistrates' Court Amendment (Mental Health List) Bill 2009 was introduced into the Victorian Parliament. The Bill proposes to amend the Magistrates' Court Act 1989 and set up a Mental Health List within the Magistrates' Court of Victoria as a three-year pilot project. Approximately three hundred candidates will undergo rehabilitation and treatment under …
Month: December 2009
iLaw
Last week a colleague pointed out that LexisNexis now has a platform offering unreported judgement notifiers on mobile devices such as BlackBerrys — or is that 'BlackBerries'? — and iPhones.You can see the service here.It provides for searches on mobile devices, but doesn't replicate the very-handy daily unreported judgments notifier available for free.
Are computer hard-drive contents a 'document'?
On 8 December 2009 the Supreme Court decided DPP v Chao [2009] VSC 562.Mr Chao was accused of possessing child pornography found on a computer hard-disk-drive (HDD) he left with a computer repairer. (Possession wasn't argued in this appeal, but it's settled law that the offence requires knowing possession: Police v Kennedy (1998) 71 SASR …
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Are computer hard-drive contents a ‘document’?
On 8 December 2009 the Supreme Court decided DPP v Chao [2009] VSC 562.Mr Chao was accused of possessing child pornography found on a computer hard-disk-drive (HDD) he left with a computer repairer. (Possession wasn't argued in this appeal, but it's settled law that the offence requires knowing possession: Police v Kennedy (1998) 71 SASR …
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Summary Case Conferencing
Yesterday the Chief Magistrate issued another — presumably the last for this year — Chief Magistrate's Direction, Number 6 of 2009.It concerns summary case conferences under s 54 of the Criminal Procedure Act 2009, due to come into force in three weeks.Direction No 6 is light on detail. Really it just repeats the information already …