Last Friday the Supreme Court handed down DPP v Easwaralingam & Anor. The case was a request by the Director of Public Prosecutions for judicial review of the refusal by a magistrate to allow an adjournment sought by the prosecution, and refusing to allow the absent witness's statement to be tendered.The adjournment applicationThe accused faced …
Month: October 2010
DPP v Easwaralingam & Anor [2010] VSC 437: adjournment applications and unavailable witnesses
Last Friday the Supreme Court handed down DPP v Easwaralingam & Anor. The case was a request by the Director of Public Prosecutions for judicial review of the refusal by a magistrate to allow an adjournment sought by the prosecution, and refusing to allow the absent witness's statement to be tendered.The adjournment applicationThe accused faced …
The (qualified) right to a lawyer
One of the comments on last week's post about the review of Victoria Legal Aid's fee structure pointed out that it isn't just the move to a whole of job system that will impact on potential VLA clients. Next year some people will be ineligible for aid who would have been eligible under the existing …