Civil Supervision and Detention Orders: An examination of the NSW high risk offenders legislation (Substantive Law)

About the Seminar: 

• How do the courts determine whether an offender poses an unacceptable risk?

• When can the courts take into account criminal intelligence a defendant hasn't seen?

• What are some of the practical difficulties involved in these applications?

• What constitutional challenges have been made to the legislation?

Speaker:  Juliet Lucy, Barrister, Level 6 & 7 St James Hall