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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.
Polyukhovich v The Commonwealth [1991] HCA 32; (1991) 172 CLR 501, commonly referred to as the War Crimes Act Case, was a significant case decided in the High Court of Australia regarding the scope of the external affairs power in section 51(xxix) of the Constitution and the judicial power of the Commonwealth.
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 Reports : Tas SR: 1941-1978: AustLII: Tasmanian Law Reports : TLR: 1897-1940: AustLII: Neutral citation ...
The Criminal Code Compilation Act 1913 (WA) [26] itself is the compiling Act of the Parliament of Western Australia but does not contain any criminal offences. The criminal offences are provided for in Schedule of the Act, and citing criminal offences in the Schedule is simply to the Criminal Code (WA). [27]
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]
Polyukhovich v Commonwealth (War Crimes Act case) 1991 Mason - validity of the War Crimes Act 1945 (Cth) Harris v Caladine: 1991 Mason - judicial power may be given to a non-judicial agent provided the judges still bear the major responsibility for exercise of the power and the exercise of power is subject to court review. Re Nolan; Ex Parte ...
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 ...