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Judge Virginia Amato was presiding over the arraignment of an unnamed man charged with misdemeanor accounts of domestic violence assault and resisting arrest in August.
The committee also determined that the Bail Act should be reformed to include an express consideration of Aboriginality as a provision to ensure people were not left on remand. Aboriginal defendants are 20.4% more likely to be refused bail by police than non-Aboriginal defendants in similar cases, according to a recent NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (Bocsar) study of more than 500,000 bail decisions made in NSW between 2015 and 2019. Guardian Australiaâs Deaths Inside project found that, nationally, more than half (54%) of all Aboriginal people who died in custody between 20...
“Still no justice”: First Nations activists hold speak-out after NSW parliamentary inquiry Speakers argued that justice would be won by the people and not the state. Photography: Aman Kapoor. April 15, 2021 After a NSW Parliamentary Committee into the high levels of First Nations people in custody tabled its findings and 39 recommendations today, activists held a speak-out with the overarching message that justice would be won by the people and not the state. The inquiry was established after thousands took to the streets in June 2020 at the height of Black Lives...
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? WHO SHOULD GUARD THE GUARDS? According to Guardian Australia, a cross-party New South Wales parliamentary inquiry into Aboriginal incarceration has unanimously proposed that the state’s police watchdog, the Law Enforcement and Conduct Commission, investigate deaths in custody to stop “police investigating police”. The inquiry was called during 2020’s Black Lives Matter protests and included Liberal, Labor, Greens, Nationals, and One Nation committee members. They have made 39 recommendations including for the LECC to appoint a senior Indigenous statut...
The child they all want the child to stay with the couple? >> that's correct. and the child has a guardian ad litum the attorney that represents the chime the mother herself told the judge believes april and becky love her daughter as much as she does and wants her child in that home. >> the judge's 2014 performance evaluation we looked it up received a lower than average survey score for separation of his personal beliefs from his legal rulings. is this judge known around that part of the state for bringing his personal beliefs to the bench? >> he has had a couple of incidents in the past in ...