Queensland’s adult sentencing laws for young offenders: what the reforms actually did. For most of Queensland’s legal history, a child who committed a serious offence was sentenced as a child. The Youth Justice Act 1992 (Qld) placed rehabilitation at the centre of the sentencing exercise, required courts to treat detention as a measure of last… Continue reading Queensland Expands Adult Sentencing to Youth – Implications for Justice and Community
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What Are the Legal Consequences For Refusing a Breath Test?
Refusing a breath test is almost never the better option. People do it for all sorts of reasons. Some panic. Some think it will prevent a result being used against them. Some have heard, somewhere, that the police cannot charge you without a reading. Every one of those reasons tends to lead to the same… Continue reading What Are the Legal Consequences For Refusing a Breath Test?
New laws proposed to double the monitoring time of child sex offenders in Queensland
Queensland’s child sex offender monitoring regime, and what the 2023 amendments changed. The law governing what happens to serious sexual offenders after their custodial sentence ends has always been contested territory. Two interests collide directly: the community’s right to protection from people who have offended against children, and the legal system’s requirement that ongoing restrictions… Continue reading New laws proposed to double the monitoring time of child sex offenders in Queensland