- Title
- Politics, parliament and the courts
- Creator
- Camilleri, Marg; Harkness, Alistair
- Date
- 2023
- Type
- Text; Book chapter
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/189208
- Identifier
- vital:17398
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-19063-6_2
- Identifier
- ISBN:9783031190650
- Abstract
- Recognising the oftentimes polarising nature of court decision-making—and the overt public interest and political sensitivities which exist—this chapter focuses on the public influence on legislative decision-making with regard to the courts and court processes. It considers the blurring of boundaries in regard to mandatory sentencing the parliamentary appetite for sentencing reform and the questioning of sentencing outcomes and other court practices. How to reconcile public attitudes (and thus parliamentary action) with magisterial, judicial, parole board and bail justice decision-making is a significant challenge. Various actors have a role to play in promoting accountability and positive change, including sentencing advisory councils, parliamentary law reform committees, legal services boards, community legal centres and other bodies—in advocating for positive change, fairness and equity based on sound evidence rather than potentially knee-jerk reactions to public conjecture.
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing AG
- Relation
- Australian Courts : controversies, challenges and change Chapter 2 p. 19-44
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- Copyright @ The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- Subject
- Attitudes to sentencing; Legislative decision-making; Parliament; Politics; Sentencing; Separation of powers
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