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Relevant Articles, Papers and Speeches

Sentencing and Disadvantage:
The Use of Research to Inform the C
ourt
- Nicholas Cowdery AO QC, Jill Hunter and Rebecca McMahon (article, Judicial Officers' Bulletin, June 2020, Judicial Commission of NSW)
The Bar Book Project: Presenting Evidence of Disadvantage - Sophia Beckett (conference paper, Public Defenders Criminal Law Conference 2019)

The Bar Book Project: Making Use of the Bar Book in Sentence and Section 32 Proceedings - Rebecca McMahon (conference paper, Legal Aid Criminal Law Conference 2019)

Sentencing Checklist, January 2019 - Judge Dina Yehia SC (presented at Reasonable Cause Criminal CPD Conference 2019)

The Impact of Bugmy and Munda on Sentencing Aboriginal and Other Offenders - Justice Stephen Rothman AM (conference paper, Public Defenders Criminal Law Conference 2018)

Applying Bugmy: An Address to the NSW Legal Aid Commission’s Aboriginal Services Branch - Judge Andrew Haesler SC (conference paper, Legal Aid Aboriginal Cultural Competency Branch Training For Legal Practitioners Day, 31 July 2018)

Sentencing Aboriginal Offenders – "Striving for Equality before the Law" - Judge Stephen Norrish QC (conference paper, Legal Aid Commission Workshop, 1 August 2017)

Sentencing Indigenous Offenders - Not enough 'Judicial Notice'? - Judge Stephen Norrish QC (conference paper, Judicial Conference of Australia Colloquium, 13 October 2013)