Introduction: This report considers three distinct aspects of the jury system in Victoria: • the use of peremptory challenges and the Crown right to stand aside jurors in criminal trials • the identification of jurors by name or number in court • the additional juror system, in particular the balloting off of excess jurors at...

Abstract: This report provides an overview of the offences that an individual who sexually abuses a child in an institutional setting may be charged with in the nine Australian jurisdictions. These include contact and non-contact sexual offences, child pornography offences and offences for which institutions and/or their representatives that were aware of child sexual abuse...

Over a third of court cases finalised during 2012-13 were for traffic offences, finds this report on the characteristics and outcomes of finalised defendants and the sentence outcomes associated with those proven guilty.

This statistical report examines data on the operation of sentence appeals in Victoria. In particular, the report addresses the absence of data available on sentence appeals brought by offenders and the Crown and on patterns of decision-making in sentence appeal cases heard by the Court of Appeal.

This report indicates how people’s perceptions of crime can predict how confident they are in the courts and the legal system.