Key material on the Public Defenders website

30/04/2018

New committals legislation commenced today

A complex new legislative scheme for all indictable matters, involving the abolition of committals as we know them and, for state charges, the introduction of statutory caps on discounts for the utilitarian benefit of a plea of guilty, starts today. A bundle of key material to assist practitioners with the new scheme, including an explanatory paper and the Local Court Practice Note, is available from the Public Defenders Website at www.publicdefenders.nsw.gov.au