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Package includes:

On Demand Module  l  Electronic booklet  l  PowerPoint Presentation

Package Fee (incl GST)

  • $115 - Law Society members and Associate members
  • $165 - Non-members

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On Demand Module

Presentation time: 60 minutes
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CPD HRS

This module will provide an overview of the revised Solicitor-General’s Prosecution Guidelines, released in 2024. The module will cover the main differences between the previous version of the guidelines (released in 2013) and the new guidelines, and include a discussion about the process of making prosecution decisions. This module will be relevant to anyone involved in prosecution decision making, as well as prosecutors and defence counsel.

Learning objectives

By completing this module you will learn:

  • How to use the new digital guidelines.
  • How prosecution decisions are made.

Electronic paper 

Author: Charlotte Brook
Published: 7 May 2025
Pages: 17

Introduction

It has never been the case that enforcement of the law requires every offence to be prosecuted. Each prosecuting agency has its own policies as to how it will exercise its functions and achieve its statutory objectives. Prosecution is one mechanism and, consistent with its statutory framework, needs to be balanced against other enforcement priorities and practical considerations such as the resources available to it.

Since 1992, the Solicitor-General has issued Prosecution Guidelines (the  guidelines) to assist prosecuting agencies in deciding whether to prosecute in any particular matter. The guidelines also set out how certain issues in prosecutions should be dealt with. Because the guidelines cover the full range of offending, including all four categories of offence under the Criminal Procedure Act 2011, prosecuted by the full spectrum of public prosecuting agencies (not just the Police and Crown Solicitors), they are necessarily high level in nature.

PowerPoint Presentation

These are the slides included in the presentation.

BROOK Charlotte    
Charlotte Brook
Kate Sheppard Chambers
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