This episode we’ll start chatting about the Sentencing Act 1991 (Vic) by looking at the introductory provisions, finishing up with provisions relating to custodial sentences. No notes this episode or next, you’ll just need the Act in front of you. As always, we’re helped out by the discussion published by the Judicial College of Victoria, and the best resource for Sentencing Act chats is the Victorian sentencing manual. In out next episode, we’ll very nearly finish the sentencing discussion , leaving only civil procedure to go.
This episode we’ll continue discussing the Criminal Procedure Act, starting with appeals from superior court decisions, including interlocutory appeals, and cases stated. We then...
In our very last substantive evidence discussion, we chat about the principles of admissibility, and exclusion, of hearsay evidence. In our next episode, we’ll...
Today we tackle the last of the evidentiary privileges - client legal privilege, before moving into the tricky rules of admissibility of credibility evidence....