A Legal Process or a Justice System?

Qld Council for Civil Liberties, Submission to Queensland Crime and Misconduct Commission, 20 November 2002, 5.

CMC, Seeking Justice Report (2003) <http://www.cmc.qld.gov.au/library/CMCWEBSITE/SeekingJustice.pdf>.

Ibid, 169.

CMC, The Volkers Case: Examining the Conduct of the Police and Prosecution (2003) <http://www.cmc.qld.gov.au/library/CMCWEBSITE/VolkersCase.pdf>.

CMC, Seeking Justice Report, above n 2, 169.

Roberts G , ‘Swimming Body Plans no Action against Volkers’ The Australian, 4 April 2003.

See, eg, R v Seaboyer; R v Gayme (1991) 83 DLR (4th) 193 especially at 208–209 and the recent treatment of these matters in Easteal P , Less the Equal — Women and the Australian Legal System (2001).

See, eg, discussion in Easteal P , (ed), Balancing the Scales: Rape, Law Reform and Australian Culture (1998).

Office of Women's Policy, Report of the Taskforce on Women and the Criminal Code (March 2000) 213 (‘Taskforce Report’). <http://www.qldwoman.qld.gov.au/publications/taskforce/main.html>.

Easteal , above n 7, 135.

Taskforce Report, above n 9, ii.

CMC, The Handling of Sexual Offence Matters by the Criminal Justice System: Discussion Paper (2002), 4.

Easteal , above n 7, 135.

ABS, ‘Crime Justice — Special Article: Crime and Safety’, Year Book Australia 2002 <http://www.abs.gov.au/Ausstats/abs@.nsf/Lookup/E95615F039483745CA2569DE0025631D>.

OESR, Queensland Crime Victimisation Survey 2000.

OESR, ‘Violence in the Family’, Crime Statistics Bulletin No 1, April 1998; Easteal , above n 7, 120.

CMC, above n 2, 54–5.

Ibid, 57–8.

Ibid, 128.

Ibid, xx.

Juvenile offenders (under 17) are generally protected for all offences in all Australian states and territories.

Crimes Act 1900 (NSW) s 578A(2); Judicial Proceedings Reports Act 1958 (Vic) s 4(1A), Evidence Act 1929 (WA) s 36C(6); Evidence Act 2001 (Tas) s 194K; Evidence Act 1971 (ACT) s 76E.

CMC, above n 2, 73.

Ibid, xix.

Ibid, 72.

Taskforce Report, above n 9, 71–73.

Parliament of Victoria Law Reform Committee, Inquiry into Administration of Justice Offences, Discussion Paper, August 2003, 4, available at <http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/lawreform/>.

Goode M R , ‘Codification of the Australian Criminal Law’ (1992) 16 Criminal Law Journal 5, 5.

A-G v Fardon [2003] QSC 331 per Atkinson J at [1]. Emphasis added.

A-G v Fardon [2003] QCA 416.

Taskforce Report, above n 9, 215–6.

CMC, above n 2, 169.