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Brighton v RSPCA (NSW) [2023] NSWSC 1653

A Supreme Court judge, sitting alone, himself described this case as ‘arguably interesting’, involving, as it did, an unprovoked attack on a camel named Alice, the ‘barbaric’ killing of a dog by the owner, summary conviction, a successful appeal, remittal, and the eventual imposition of an ‘extraor

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DG v R (No 1) [2023] NSWCCA 320

In this decision the Court of Criminal Appeal (‘CCA’) has put to bed the question of whether a sentence of imprisonment can be reduced to enable consideration of an Intensive Correction Order (‘ICO’): it is not a permissible exercise of a sentencing judge’s discretion.

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