The Judicial College of Victoria today released updates to its ever-useful series of manuals. A big "huzzah" to the folks responsible.The College hasn't put out much detail about the changes, but it seems to me that they've moved away from the java-scripting that previously ran them. My guess is they're now using HTML5. Whatever the …
Month: October 2012
Dankovic v The Queen [2012] VSCA 255: penalty limits in the Magistrates' Court
The Magistrates’ Court is limited in the periods of imprisonment it can impose by ss 113, 113A and 113B of the Sentencing Act 1991. The jurisdictional limits are two years for a single charge, and five years in respect of several offences committed at the same time. These restrictions apply regardless of the maximum period …
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Dankovic v The Queen [2012] VSCA 255: penalty limits in the Magistrates’ Court
The Magistrates’ Court is limited in the periods of imprisonment it can impose by ss 113, 113A and 113B of the Sentencing Act 1991. The jurisdictional limits are two years for a single charge, and five years in respect of several offences committed at the same time. These restrictions apply regardless of the maximum period …
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DPP v Novakovic [2012] VSC 397: blood refusals, doctors and that three-hour thing
Last month the Supreme Court delivered its judgment in another drink-drive decision, DPP v Novakovic [2012] VSC 397. (The judgment only popped up on Austlii recently, which spurred me to get around to this post.)This case dealt with a charge of refusing to permit a blood sample to be taken following two attempts to obtain a breath …
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Plain language for lawyers
Someone gave me this book recently. I really liked reading it. It's been in print for two decades. I wish I'd read it earlier. Enough said.