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ITC#7: Tim Marsh on DPP v Walters

June 19, 2018

ITC#7: Tim Marsh on DPP v Walters


Politicians regularly seek to constrain the discretion of sentencing judges. Victoria's baseline sentencing regime was a strange, unique, and ultimately unsuccessful attempt to do so. Tim Marsh talks about the decisions of the Supreme Court and Court of Appeal in DPP v Walters, which grappled with this unusual legislative scheme.