Failure to Protect Offence
Failure to Protect Offence It is well known that schools and school leaders owe a positive duty of care to students to ensure that the school environment is safe for [...]
Failure to Protect Offence It is well known that schools and school leaders owe a positive duty of care to students to ensure that the school environment is safe for [...]
Mandatory Grooming Offence Training: VRQA Update The Victorian Registration and Qualifications Authority (“VRQA”) released the new Guidelines to the Minimum Standards on 17 June 2020. These will take effect from 1 January [...]
Workplace Manslaughter Offences Recent media coverage of WorkSafe’s decision to pursue private school Haileybury over the death of a school groundsman in 2018 serves as a timely reminder of the [...]
Pell v The Queen: The High Court Decision As many of you are by now aware, the High court recently handed down its decision in George Pell's appeal against his [...]
Forcing Priests to Break the Seal of Confession Recently there has been media attention around new legislation that will force priests to break the seal of confession in circumstances where sexual [...]
Sentencing: A basic guide to understanding sentencing In light of recent high profile judicial decisions, such as Borce Ristevski and George Pell you may be wondering how sentences are reached. [...]