Examines the reasons for the increase in the prison population in New Zealand since 2013 and recommends alternatives.

The Tasmanian Attorney-General, Vanessa Goodwin, asked the Sentencing Advisory Council to examine and provide a report on sentences imposed by the Tasmanian courts in cases where a person is seriously injured or killed as a result of a motor vehicle crash, and to provide advice on how to address any problems identified. The terms of...

This report considers issues relating to the illegal possession of firearms in New Zealand and recommends changes.

Overview Clinical legal education (CLE) is potentially the major disruptor of traditional law schools’ core functions. Good CLE challenges many central clichés of conventional learning in law—everything from case book method to the 50-minute lecture. And it can challenge a contemporary overemphasis on screen-based learning, particularly when those screens only provide information and require no...

This report examines factors associated with reoffending for the 5,385 children and young people sentenced in the Victorian Children’s Court in the financial year 2008–09. The Council examined the group’s offending over an 11-year period from 1 July 2004 to 30 June 2015 inclusive.