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 …
Tag: criminal procedure
Where is the value in SACStat?
The Sentencing Advisory Council's new SACStat program (tweeted about by my learned colleague a few days ago) is interesting, colourful and fairly intuitive. Searches of dispositions in the Magistrates' Court are recent (2009 - 2011) and statistically significant (only offences for which at least 50 examples are available will return a result). They are an …
RWS v The Queen [2012] VSCA 249: unauthorised questioners
Section 367 of the Criminal Procedure Act 2009 provides that367. Use of recorded evidence-in-chiefA witness may give evidence-in-chief (wholly or partly) in the form of an audio or audiovisual recording of the witness answering questions put to him or her by a person prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this section.The regulations referred …
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Bright sparks in the Magistrates’ Court
Late last year I mentioned the woes a few of my colleagues had encountered about using iPads in our Magistrates' Courts. I understood there was a policy from the Court in development, but there was no word on it till now.Since then, the Magistrates' Court has taken to twitter itself at @MagCourtVic, and today — …
Bright sparks in the Magistrates' Court
Late last year I mentioned the woes a few of my colleagues had encountered about using iPads in our Magistrates' Courts. I understood there was a policy from the Court in development, but there was no word on it till now.Since then, the Magistrates' Court has taken to twitter itself at @MagCourtVic, and today — …