Edit: It's generally considered mitigatory when possession of drugs is not for the purposes of trafficking (though, strictly speaking, this ought properly to be considered the absence of aggravation). There's no firm rule as to how much of a drug of dependence is too much to be considered intended for personal use. In Hanks v …
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Adjournment applications
Edit: The Court of Appeal strongly rejected the notion that adjournments are of an administrative character, and so attract human rights considerations, in Slaveski v The Queen (on the application of the Prothonotary of the Supreme Court of Victoria) [2012] VSCA 48.Redlich and Nettle JJA [at 106]: The Commission contended that, when a trial judge …
DPP v Kypri [2010] VSC 400 — don’t forget the sub-section!
Edit: The Court of Appeal have handed down their decision in Kypri. See our discussion of it here. I was nearly going to title this post Oops!...I did it again but thought better of it. DPP v Kypri was a DPP appeal against a dismissal of a charge of refusing to accompany for a breath …
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DPP v Kypri [2010] VSC 400 — don't forget the sub-section!
Edit: The Court of Appeal have handed down their decision in Kypri. See our discussion of it here. I was nearly going to title this post Oops!...I did it again but thought better of it. DPP v Kypri was a DPP appeal against a dismissal of a charge of refusing to accompany for a breath …
Continue reading DPP v Kypri [2010] VSC 400 — don't forget the sub-section!
Honour crimes
Honour crimes are (at least in this post) offences that are motivated, in whole or in part, by the offender's recognised community values.Crimes perpetrated by migrants tend to gain the most media attention, but there's many types of honour crime. Other examples include initiation and punishment rites of bikie gangs, traditional indigenous practices like ritual …