Sentencing

• Sentencing, over-policing, STMP and crime reduction in NSW

  6th Aug 2020

  Mark Warren analyses statistics to determine the effectiveness of NSW sentencing reforms on prison population, police and crime reduction, and STMP technology.

• National industrial manslaughter legislation would save lives

  17th Oct 2019

  Jasmina Mackovic repeats calls for a national approach to industrial manslaughter laws following the recent tragic death of a worker in Sydney’s Port Botany, pointing to the lack of consistency across jurisdictions and the NSW government's unwillingness to introduce its industrial manslaughter laws in NSW.

• NSW prison population and the new sentencing laws – an update

  10th Oct 2019

  Mark Warren looks at the impact of the new sentencing regime in NSW, introduced in 2018, on the types of sentences being imposed in NSW. While all the data is not yet in, there appears to be a trend towards community-based sentencing, such as Intensive Correction Orders, and away from short-term prison sentences. 

• Does ‘Never to be Released’ mean ‘life’?

  1st Aug 2019

  Tom Percy QC explores six questions arising from the sentencing of Anthony Harvey, the first person in WA ordered by a judge never to be eligible for parole.

• New sentencing laws in NSW

  6th Dec 2018

  Practical information for criminal lawyers and their clients.