The Criminal Bar Association emailed its members recently advising that CCOs are now a sentencing option for Commonwealth offences.The Crimes Amendment Regulation (No 2) 2012 amended the Crimes Regulations 1990. The explanatory statement helpfully sets out the need for this change:The purpose of this Regulation is to correct and simplify existing regulations 5 and 6 …
Day: March 30, 2012
Criminal Procedure Act amendments commence
The balance of the Criminal Procedure Amendment (Double Jeopardy and Other Matters) Act 2011 commenced operation on 18 March 2012, notified in Gazette S66 of 6 March 2012. These are the amendments that occur as a result.(Right now, the Austlii version of the Criminal Procedure Act is not up-to-date — as another example of why …