Legal groups have urged the Victorian government not to delay reforming the state's tough bail laws, in anticipation of the findings of a major coronial inquest being handed down next week.
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Liberty Victoria in the News
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Media Type: Article - ABC NewsDate: January 24, 2023
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Media Type: Article - Sun Herald and Geelong Advertiser
Liberty Victoria president Michael Stanton described the current laws as “broken”.
“We are concerned that bail laws are increasingly being used as a means of preventive detention in some...
Date: January 24, 2023 -
Media Type: Article - The Age
In a submission to the Yoorrook Justice Commission, human rights organisation Liberty Victoria noted that in 2020, the rate for Aboriginal adults in custody was about 1837 per 100,000 Victorian...
Date: January 24, 2023 -
Media Type: Article - Central Western Daily via AAP
Liberty Victoria's Sam Norton said the state got the balance wrong on bail laws after Bourke Street, allowing for repeat offenders to be held on remand for low-level crimes such as shoplifting...
Date: January 24, 2023 -
Media Type: Article - The Guardian
Legal groups, MPs and the partner of Veronica Nelson are urging the Victorian government not to squander the opportunity to overhaul the state’s bail laws following a major coronial inquest into...
Date: January 24, 2023 -
Media Type: Article - The Age
Vice president of Liberty Victoria, Michelle Bennett, said a lack of trained staff could be a “life or death” issue for prisoners, and that time in cells should be strictly limited.
“For...
Date: January 16, 2023 -
Media Type: Article - Pearls and Irritations
It is a sad indictment upon Executive government, that a costly charade is exactly what the AAT had become. The level of Executive interference with the constitution and operation of the tribunal...
Date: December 27, 2022 -
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Liberty Victoria said it was vital the minimum age of criminal responsibility was raised to 14 in Victoria.
"This is not a matter that should result in compromise. Children don't belong in...
Date: December 22, 2022 -
Media Type: Article - ABC Live Blog
In comments over the weekend, the president of Liberty Victoria, Michael Stanton, said there was "no need" for Ms Cumming's "inflammatory rhetoric".
"The state election...
Date: November 23, 2022 -
Media Type: Article - The Age
Liberty Victoria president Michael Stanton told The Sunday Age the government should have made plans for this situation to ensure people who were sick with the virus could still vote.
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Date: November 14, 2022