With the introduction of the Criminal Procedure Act 2009 the phrase proper venue is soon to become obsolete.The phrase comes with several decades of jurisprudence attached to it. The new Act deliberately avoids using it in s 11.One of the last cases that will consider it is Salt v Godenzi & Anor [2010] VSC 259. …
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With the introduction of the Criminal Procedure Act 2009 the phrase proper venue is soon to become obsolete.The phrase comes with several decades of jurisprudence attached to it. The new Act deliberately avoids using it in s 11.One of the last cases that will consider it is Salt v Godenzi & Anor [2010] VSC 259. …
Continue reading Salt v Godenzi & Anor: the final days of proper venue?
In January this year the United Kingdom Court of Appeal decided it had jurisdiction to try three people accused of posting racially inflammatory material on the internet even though the web-server hosting the material was in the USA.In R v Sheppard [2010] EWCA Crim 65, the accused wrote and edited the material in England; uploaded …
Edit: Note that this post refers to an amnesty that occurred in 2010. I don't know what the current situation is.A fee waiver scheme is currently on to encourage people to pay their outstanding fines. The government amnesty runs until March 19. For those who enter into arrangements to pay their outstanding fines, some of …
Last year Elucubrator posted on the expansion of the powers of judicial registrars.The full list of matters that they may deal with are contained at rule 4 of the Magistrates' Court (Judicial Registrars) Rules 2005. The problem with that rule is that it contains a long list of section numbers, and references to many different …