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Advocates concerned after Daniel Andrews suggests looking at offence types rather than scrapping controversial 2018 changes
Nearly a year before a coroner blasted Victoria’s bail laws, a parliamentary report recommended sweeping changes, but the Andrews government never responded.
Exclusive: Party say its new bill will be put to a vote if Labor doesn’t announce its own reforms
A HIGH Court judge launched a stinging criticism on the Judiciary’s surety approval policy for bail which she ruled “illegal, ultra vires and unconstitutional.”
Coroner Simon McGregor, who conducted the inquest into the death in prison of Gunditjmara, Dja Dja Wurrung, Wiradjuri and Yorta Yorta woman Veronica Nelson, said Victoria’s Bail Act needs to be “urgently” amended. Chris Slee reports.