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Life imprisonment is the most severe criminal sentence available to the courts in Australia.Most cases attracting the sentence are murder.It is also imposed, albeit rarely, for sexual assault, manufacturing and trafficking commercial quantities of illicit drugs, and offences against the justice system and government security.
The United States Sentencing Commission in the United States of America and the Sentencing Council in England and Wales are examples of bodies which consist primarily of judicial members, giving those bodies a judicial flavour. In contrast, the Sentencing Commission for Scotland is made up of parliamentarians, giving it a political flavour. [2]
AustLII was established in 1995. [1] [2] Founded as a joint program of the University of Technology Sydney and the University of New South Wales law schools, its initial funding was provided by the Australian Research Council. [3] Its public policy purpose is to improve access to justice through access to legal information. [4]
In 1895 South Australia also became the first Australian state to create a children's court, under the State Children’s Act 1895 (SA). [55] Today, it is known as the Youth Court, under the provisions of the Youth Court Act 1993 (SA). [56] Until 1969, matters were heard either in the Supreme Court or the Court of Petty Sessions.
via AustLII: South Australian Law Reports: SALR: 1863-1920: via AustLII: Neutral citation: SASC: 1989-AustLII. BarNet JADE. SASCFC: 2010-AustLII. BarNet JADE. Court of Criminal Appeal and Full Court of the Supreme Court Supreme Court (Tas) Tasmanian Reports: Tas R: 1978-Thomson Reuters: Authorised report. 1978-1991: AustLII: Tasmanian State ...
The Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (RCIADIC) (1987–1991), also known as the Muirhead Commission, was a Royal Commission appointed by the Australian Government in October 1987 to Federal Court judge James Henry Muirhead QC, to study and report upon the underlying social, cultural and legal issues behind the deaths in custody of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people ...
The Sentencing Act 2005 (ACT), the Dangerous Prisoners (Sexual Offenders) Act 2003 (Qld), and the Sentencing Act 1991 (Vic) govern habitual offenders. An offender can be incarcerated indeterminately if there is a high probability, given the offender's character, the nature of their offense, psychiatric evidence as to the dangerousness of the ...
With the abolition of "common law bonds" in Section 71, the Victorian courts instead refer to "adjourned undertakings" through the Sentencing Act 1991 (Vic). [8] The concept of good behaviour bonds is reflected in Section 72, which allows the court to delay proceedings for the convicted offender for a maximum time frame of 5 years.