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The sentencing discount for guilty pleas

The sentencing discount for guilty pleas AUST & NZ JOURNAL OF CRIMINOLOGY (September 1985) 18 (131-146) Are we paying too much for efficiency? J E Willis* It is enormously important to remember that rights and freedoms which have been built up and established for centuries can be easily lost forever due to an over-reaction to some topical pressure. (The Hon J Kennan MLC, Attorney-General of Victoria)' Introduction Court systems in Australian jurisdictions are under considerable and increasing pressures. There are substantial backlogs of cases especially in the higher courts; contested cases are generally tending to take longer , and there seems to be an increasing number of complex trials which are taking months. Governments over recent years have responded to these pressures in a number of ways. Jurisdictional changes have enabled a number of indictable offences to be heard summarily, and so lightened the case-Ioad of the higher courts; there has been some increase in the number of judges appointed to higher courts, and a variety of procedural and administrative changes adopted to deal with the problems of case-Ioad and backlogs. Although these measures have had some effect, problems of back-logs and delay still persist. Indeed, the increase in the jurisdiction of the summary courts, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology SAGE

The sentencing discount for guilty pleas

Willis, J E
Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology , Volume 18 (3): 16 – Sep 1, 1985
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SAGE
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© The Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology and Authors, 1985
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0004-8658
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1837-9273
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10.1177/000486588501800302
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AUST & NZ JOURNAL OF CRIMINOLOGY (September 1985) 18 (131-146) Are we paying too much for efficiency? J E Willis* It is enormously important to remember that rights and freedoms which have been built up and established for centuries can be easily lost forever due to an over-reaction to some topical pressure. (The Hon J Kennan MLC, Attorney-General of Victoria)' Introduction Court systems in Australian jurisdictions are under considerable and increasing pressures. There are substantial backlogs of cases especially in the higher courts; contested cases are generally tending to take longer , and there seems to be an increasing number of complex trials which are taking months. Governments over recent years have responded to these pressures in a number of ways. Jurisdictional changes have enabled a number of indictable offences to be heard summarily, and so lightened the case-Ioad of the higher courts; there has been some increase in the number of judges appointed to higher courts, and a variety of procedural and administrative changes adopted to deal with the problems of case-Ioad and backlogs. Although these measures have had some effect, problems of back-logs and delay still persist. Indeed, the increase in the jurisdiction of the summary courts,

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Published: Sep 1, 1985

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