Key Events for Sentencing in Victoria. The Supreme Court hands down the first sentence under Victoria’s baseline sentencing scheme. The Court of Appeal gives Victoria’s first guideline judgment on the imposition of community correction orders. The Justice Legislation Amendment (Confiscation and Other Matters) Act 2. Magistrates’ Court. The Sentencing Amendment (Coward’s Punch Manslaughter and Other Matters) Act. The Sentencing Amendment (Emergency Workers) Act 2.
The Sentencing Amendment (Emergency Workers) Act 2. The Sentencing Amendment (Baseline Sentences) Act 2. After a gradual phasing out, suspended sentences are abolished in Victoria for all offences committed on or after 1 September 2. The Crimes Amendment (Gross Violence Offences) Act 2. The Sentencing Amendment (Abolition of Suspended Sentences and Other Matters) Act 2. Victoria. 2. 01. 3 The Court of Appeal considers whether to give Victoria’s first guideline judgment. Major changes to sentencing in Victoria come into effect in January 2.
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The opportunity for deferred sentencing is expanded. A new community correction order is created, replacing the community- based order, the intensive correction order, and the combined custody and treatment order. Home detention is abolished as an option for sentencing or parole.
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Suspended sentences are abolished as a sentencing option in the Supreme and County Courts for 'serious' or 'significant' offences committed on or after 1 May 2. The Sentencing Act 1.
County Court. 2. 00. The Criminal Procedure Act 2. Court of Appeal considers applications for leave (permission) to appeal against a sentence. The Act eliminates the principle of 'sentencing double jeopardy' as a consideration in sentence appeals. The Serious. Sex Offenders (Detention and Supervision) Act 2. Serious Sex Offenders (Monitoring) Act 2.
The Sentencing Act 1. Criminal Procedure Legislations Amendment Act 2. The Criminal Procedure Legislation Amendment Act 2. The scheme is later incorporated in the Criminal Procedure Act 2.
The Neighbourhood Justice Centre opens, applying principles of restorative and therapeutic justice. The Koori Court is expanded to the County Court. Home detention is confirmed as a sentencing option.
The Sentencing (Further Amendment) Act 2. Victim Impact Statements to be read out loud in sentencing hearings. The Children, Youth and Families Act 2. The Act sets out the principles and considerations for sentencing young offenders. The Serious Sex Offenders Monitoring Act 2.
A family violence division of the Magistrates’ Court is established. The Sex Offenders Registration Act 2. Victorian sex offenders registration scheme. The Victorian Sentencing Advisory Council commences operation. The Council’s mission is to ‘bridge the gap between the community, the courts, and the government by informing, educating, and advising on sentencing issues’.
Home detention is piloted. The Sentencing Act 1. The Sentencing Act 1. Sentencing Advisory Council and make provision for guideline judgments. The Pathways to Justice review of Victorian sentencing law recommends establishing a Sentencing Advisory Council in Victoria. The Victorian Drug Court Division of the Magistrates’ Court begins operation.
The drug treatment order is introduced. The Koori Court is established as a division of the Magistrates' Court. The Koori Court sentences Indigenous offenders who consent to appear in the court and admit the facts of an offence. The Sentencing Act 1. Children’s Court to the Magistrates’ Court. The Sentencing Act 1. The Crimes (Mental Impairment and Unfitness to be Tried) Act 1.
Governor’s pleasure regime and establishing new procedures for determining unfitness to stand trial, the defence of mental impairment, and a process for dealing with people found unfit to be tried or found not guilty because of mental impairment. The Sentencing Act 1. Magistrates’ Courtincrease maximum penalties for crimes under the Crimes Act 1. The Confiscation Act 1. The Act relates to the proceeds, property, and value of benefits of crime. Amendments to the Sentencing Act 1.
The Sentencing Act 1. Children and Young Persons Act 1. Victim Impact Statements and to require consideration of victims’ interests as part of the statutory sentencing guidelines.
The Court of Appeal is created to hear appeal cases from the Supreme Court and other jurisdictions. The Sentencing Act 1. The concept of an indefinite sentence is introduced. The intensive correction order comes into effect as a substitute for imprisonment. The Sentencing Act 1. The Act sets out sentencing principles and the hierarchy of sanctions for sentencing adult offenders in Victoria. The Act incorporates a new 1.
Crimes Act 1. 95. It also introduces intensive correction orders. The Children and Young Persons Act 1. Children’s Court of Victoria, which had previously operated as a division of the Magistrates’ Court. The Sentencing Task Force, led by Frank Costigan QC, is established to review statutory maximum penalties. The Magistrates’ Court Act 1. Magistrates’ Court of Victoria (formerly the Court of Petty Sessions).
The Victorian Sentencing Committee’s report on sentencing policy and practice is tabled in the Victorian Parliament. The report contains a comprehensive set of recommendations and a draft Penalties and Sentences Bill, and it recommends a review of statutory maximum penalties.
The Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody begins. Reports prepared by the Commission highlight many deficiencies in the treatment of Aboriginal peoples by the justice system and the disproportionate overrepresentation of Aboriginal prisoners in Australia.
The new Crimes (Family Violence) Act 1. The Road Safety Act 1. The Penalties and Sentences Act 1. The Crimes (Confiscation of Profits) Act 1.
The British Parliament passes the Australia Act 1. Australian and Victorian affairs. The Penalties and Sentences Act 1. The Act introduces suspended sentences and confirms imprisonment as a sentence of ‘last resort’. The Penalties and Sentences Act 1. The Victorian Sentencing Committee is established to review sentencing policy and practice in Victoria. The Full Bench of the Supreme Court of Victoria is specially convened to consider whether to overturn the previous rule that neither a sentencing court nor an appellate court could take into account the possibility of sentencing remissions when determining the inadequacy of a prison sentence. The Full Bench upholds the rule. This case, R v Yates [1.
VR 4. 1, is considered to be the genesis of the Sentencing Act 1. Youth attendance orders are introduced for offenders aged under 2.
The Office of Corrections is established in Victoria. Victoria becomes the first Australian jurisdiction to have a Director of Public Prosecutions. The Prisoners (Interstate Transfer) Act 1. Commonwealth allow prisoners to be transferred interstate to complete their sentence. The Penalties and Sentences Act 1. Community service orders are piloted in Victoria. The Penalties and Sentences Act 1.
The Drugs, Poisons and Controlled Substances Act 1. The Act outlines penalties for drug trafficking, importation, and possession offences. Court Network volunteers begin helping court visitors with general information and support. The Sentencing Alternatives Committee of Victoria recommends introducing community service as a sanction.
Victoria Legal Aid is established. The Social Welfare (Amendment) Act 1. Changes to Victoria’s Constitution means it now exists as an Act of the Parliament of Victoria. Capital punishment is abolished in Victoria. The Alcoholics and Drug- Dependent Person Act 1.
The Act provides for drug and alcohol treatment and rehabilitation. Capital punishment is abolished under Commonwealth law.
The jurisdiction of the County Court is expanded to include criminal matters in addition to civil cases. 1. The last man legally executed in Australia, Ronald Ryan, is hanged in Pentridge Prison in Melbourne. The Summary Offences Act 1. The Act gives penalties for less serious offences. The Social Welfare Act 1. Youth Parole Board. The Crimes Act 1.
The Act includes sentences for indictable offences and provisions for bail and parole. The County Court Act 1. County Court ‘in and for’ the State of Victoria. The Penal Reform Act 1.
Adult Parole Board to Victoria. The Indeterminate Sentences Board is abolished. The Criminal Appeal Act 1.
The Indeterminate Sentences Act 1. Governor’s pleasure’ in reformatory prison. The Indeterminate Sentences Board is established to manage indeterminate sentences. The Children’s Court is established. The court is introduced at every place where a Court of Petty Sessions (later the Magistrates’ Court) is held. The jurisdiction of the court applies to children aged under 1.
New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia, and Victoria become a federation of states in the new Commonwealth of Australia. Following a land boom, Victoria’s economy crashes. Depression leads to widespread unemployment. Banks fail, and thousands of people lose their possessions. The Crimes Act 1. Victoria. 1. 88. 7 The Juvenile Offenders Act 1. The Act states when young people are to be committed to reformatory school.
Ned Kelly is hanged in Melbourne Gaol. The Inebriates Act 1. The last convicts are transported to Australia. The last convict ship, the Hougoumont, arrives in Western Australia. The. Criminal Law and Practice Statute 1.
Penalties include death (for murder), imprisonment (with or without hard or light labour), solitary confinement, whipping, and fines. The benefit of clergy, which enables first- time offenders to seek a more lenient sanction, is abolished. An Act for the Remission of Penalties and the Discharge of Persons from Imprisonment in Certain Cases 1.
Victoria. 1. 85. 5 The Victorian Constitution Act 1. The Supreme Court of Victoria is established, replacing the court of the resident judge at Port Phillip. The County Courts Act 1.