Convicted criminals won’t be able to use references from family and friends to get more lenient sentences in NSW, but more widespread change could be hard.
- Associate professor, Bond University
If you’re convicted of sexual abuse, your friends and family can tell the court how good you are, with the hope of a more lenient sentence. There are calls for this to change.
Sexual assault trials can compound a victim/survivors trauma, drag on for years and bring them face to face with their attacker. Is having dedicated sexual assault courts the answer?
The Federal Court of Australia has made a world-first ruling in favour of granting a patent to an artificial intelligence. But what comes next?
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