Potential legislative or procedural changes needed to be made to address the criminal liability of drivers who fall asleep and cause motor vehicle crashes are examined in this report. It follows from an Issues Paper released by the Tasmania Law Reform Institute (TLRI) in September 2007. The Institute received 13 responses to the Issues Paper...

Following extensive community consultations and careful consideration the Institute recommends that a Charter of Human Rights be enacted to enhance human rights protection in Tasmania.

This report makes three recommendations that will change the warnings/directions that trial judges are permitted to give to juries in sexual offences cases about victims' delay in making complaint. The main common law directions/warnings to be given in sexual offences trials that relate to delay in complaint fall into two distinct categories:

Final Report No 9 makes recommendations concerning the attribution of criminal reponsibility to organisations. The recommendations in this paper do not change the normal rules about criminal responsibility which apply to individuals.

Research Paper No 2 brings together statistical and other material about drug use, the rationales behind and the characteristics of drug courts in other jurisdictions and information about the level and type of drug services available in Tasmania. A drug court is a court, or a division of a court, which is responsible for sentencing...