Summary case conferencing is now operating at all metropolitan Magistrates' Courts, and Geelong and Ballarat.Oddly, this information was provided by the Law Institute to its Criminal Law Section members, but there's nothing about it yet on the Victoria Police website. Not only does this seem counter-intuitive, it's unhelpful for those lawyers who aren't members of …
Month: April 2010
Indirect speech in evidence
Edit: Jeremy Gans was kind enough to point out to us (in his comment on When is lay opinion necessary) that the NSW Court of Appeal suggested in Jackson v Lithgow City Council that the Evidence Act 1995 (NSW) should not be interpreted so narrowly that a witness would be prevented from giving the 'gist' …
Throwing a light on the High Court
I just came across a new legal blog yesterday. Turns out it quietly started in January this year. Or maybe it was with great fanfare, and I was just asleep at the time...Whichever it was, the blog seems good value. There are four bloggers posting on cases heard in and decided by our High Court, …
New address
Over the weekend I took the jump to use Blogger's option for custom domain names, settling on http://www.summarycrime.com.Apparently by doing it through Blogger, as I did, means that all the existing hyperlinks should automatically redirect to the new address.So far, after 15 minutes, the new domain is working, and most posts seem to be re-directing …
Deportation as mitigation
Further Edit: The case of Mann v The Queen [2011] VSCA 189 treats the use of deportation as mitigation as a settled issue, citing Guden.Edit: Regular contributor Habeas Corpus has alerted me that the Victorian Court of Appeal has clearly rejected the reasoning in Moh v Pine in Guden v The Queen [2010] VSCA 196. …