Sentencing Review 2014-2015
Criminal Law Journal, 39: 326-350
Posted: 8 Jan 2016
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Sentencing Review 2014-2015
Date Written: January 8, 2016
Abstract
This sentencing review provides an overview of the key developments in sentencing law in Australia in 2014-15. In particular, it focuses on recent and proposed changes to the availability of suspended sentences in Victoria, New South Wales, South Australia and Tasmania. It also provides a detailed examination of the Victorian Court of Appeal's first guideline judgment, Boulton v. The Queen [2014] VSCA 342, and the impact of the decision.
Keywords: sentencing, law, Australia, suspended sentences, guideline judgments, commenty corrections order
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