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The Sentencing Advisory Council of Victoria is an independent statutory body that was established by the Victorian Government in 2004 to conduct research on sentencing in Victoria, Australia. [1] The Council comprises a board of between 11 and 14 directors, who are supported by a secretary.
The totality principle is a common law principle which applies when a court imposes multiple sentences of imprisonment. [1] [2] [3] The principle was first formulated by David Thomas [4] in his 1970 study of the sentencing decisions of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales: [1]
Arie Freiberg AM (born 22 August 1949) is an Israeli-born Australian legal academic. He was formerly Dean of Monash Law School from 2004 and retired at the end of 2012. His expertise is in criminal law and criminology and he was the Chair of the Victorian Sentencing Advisory Council from 2004 to 2022. [1]
Sentencing guidelines define a recommended sentencing range for a criminal defendant, based upon characteristics of the defendant and of the criminal charge. Depending upon the jurisdiction, sentencing guidelines may be nonbinding, or their application may be mandatory for the criminal offenses that they cover. [1]
The Prison Reform Trust Report on Sentencing (2009–2010) highlighted a number of issues including the following: Youth courts in Merthyr Tydfil issued custodial terms for just over 20 per cent of all sentences over the period, the highest in England and Wales, and ten times the equivalent rate in Newcastle.
Statistics released in 2020 by the Victorian Sentencing Advisory Council show that 67% of people sentenced to prison in Victoria, Australia in 2017–18 spent at least one day in remand, up from 47% in 2011–12. In the same year, of the cases that Victorian courts issued imprisonment orders to, 66% exceeded time served (meaning additional time ...
The Scottish equivalent is defeating the ends of justice, although charges of attempting to pervert the course of justice are also raised in Scotland, [1] while the South African counterpart is defeating or obstructing the course of justice. [2] A similar concept, obstruction of justice, exists in United States law.
Stone's Justices' Manual is a book published by LexisNexis Butterworths. It is "the standard work on summary procedure". [1] It displaced Burn's Justices of the Peace as the standard work on that subject from 1850 onwards. [2] By 1914, it was old, well-established and formidably large. [3]