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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Double Demerits in QLD
Queensland double demerits are not a holiday scheme. Every year, around long weekends and school holidays, social media fills with warnings to drive carefully because “double demerits are on.” That is true in New South Wales. It is not how Queensland works. Queensland operates a permanent double-demerit system for certain repeat offences. There is no… Continue reading Double Demerits in QLD
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?