Proactive-release-Legal-Services-Amendment-Bill_FINAL.pdf [pdf, 1.8 MB]
...to have as much information they are currently receiving to inform an appropriate sentence. However, information relevant to section 27 may still be provided through other means, such as pre-sentence reports, specialist reports, support letters or affidavits from the offender’s family or friends, or defence counsel’s sentencing submissions. 15 The Government has committed to exploring wider reform of section 27 requirements. This will be undertaken as part of work on wider sentencing...