Add to ORKGThe revised legislative crime control scheme would likely survive constitutional challenge in the High Court. On 15 February 2012 the NSW Attorney General, Greg Smith, introduced the Crimes (Criminal Organisations Control) Bill 2012 [the 2012 Bill] into the Legislative Assembly. The Bill was passed without amendment and transmitted to the Legislative Council on the same day. As explained in the Explanatory Note for the Bill, the purpose of the legislation was to re-enact the Crimes (Criminal Organisations Control) Act 2009 which was declared invalid by the High Court in Wainohu v State of NSW (2011) 278 ALR 1
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This submission supports the clarification of slavery and sexual servitude offences and the creation...
Substantial numbers of criminal offences are created in the UK in delegated legislation, often carry...
The Commonwealth Parliament recently enacted three new identity crimes, which lend their name to the...
non-peer-reviewedWhere a statute creates new offences, or alters existing offences, it is now usual...
This chapter presents a brief overview of some key law reform developments and other legislative ini...
The purpose of any legislation is to safeguard the welfare of society. Any law that fails to do that...
It will be argued that the Supreme Court (‘the UKSC’) should be bound by certain restrictions on its...
The Attorney-General Simon Corbell MLA has released a Discussion Paper to provide the community and ...
This paper summarises the contentious issue of anti-gang legislation and whether it contravenes the ...
Scholars of criminal law and criminalisation have paid insufficient attention to the use of constitu...
Quite apart from their potential for misuse, they are corrosive of core legal values, writes Andrew ...
In 2004, the High Court of Australia had cause to revisit its 1996 decision in Kable, as well as to ...
Following similar developments in South Australia and New South Wales, the Queensland Government int...
Abstract : In March 1997, the Constitutional Court found section 332(5) of the Criminal Procedure Ac...
Australian Criminal Law in the Common Law Jurisdictions is a clear and comprehensive introduct...
This submission supports the clarification of slavery and sexual servitude offences and the creation...
Substantial numbers of criminal offences are created in the UK in delegated legislation, often carry...
The Commonwealth Parliament recently enacted three new identity crimes, which lend their name to the...
non-peer-reviewedWhere a statute creates new offences, or alters existing offences, it is now usual...
This chapter presents a brief overview of some key law reform developments and other legislative ini...
The purpose of any legislation is to safeguard the welfare of society. Any law that fails to do that...
It will be argued that the Supreme Court (‘the UKSC’) should be bound by certain restrictions on its...
The Attorney-General Simon Corbell MLA has released a Discussion Paper to provide the community and ...