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Criminal Law 

The Criminal Law Committee reviews and comments on law and policy affecting criminal justice. Our initiatives focus on: 

• the interests of people charged with criminal offences
• the rights of prisoners, including the reduction of the prison population
• the interests of intellectually disabled, mentally ill and other cognitively impaired people as they are affected by the criminal law
• access to community support services, diversionary and restorative justice options in rural and remote areas
• the rights of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Australians
• multicultural issues as they relate to the criminal law.

To help criminal law practitioners, the Committee also provides the following resources.

Publications and information

Special sitting arrangements during the Local Court Annual Conference, 1 June 2011 to 3 June 2011 inclusive

The Paul Byrne Memorial Fund - Information and Donation Form

NSW Police Force Subpoena Unit – Increase in processing fee (1 February 2011)

LUCY B's: Link-Up Conditional Youth Bail Service (18 November 2010)

Corrective Services NSW – Intensive Correction Orders (2 November 2010)

Briefs of evidence – procedural and legislative changes

Traffic offender intervention program - operating guidelines

Sensitive evidence provisions

Recording refusals by suspects in an ERISP interview

Links

Prosecution Guidelines - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions NSW

NSW Alcohol Interlock Program (Drink Driving Offences)

A Criminal Law Survival Kit