Criminal Investigation and Procedure in Victoria Fourth Edition

The fourth edition of Criminal Investigation and Procedure in Victoria provides an up-to-date, concise, and comprehensive account of all key laws relating to criminal investigation and procedure in Victoria. This new edition includes the following topics:

·         Outcomes from the Royal Commission into the Management of Police Informants (2020) comprising the enhanced prosecutorial disclosure obligations, , an on-going duty of informants to provide all relevant information to prosecution authorities; and ; the creation of the Office of Special Investigator;;

·         appellate decisions concerning Victoria police questioning and detention powers (DPP v Hollis [2019] VSCA 110) and the duty to caution suspects (DPP v Hou [2020] VSCA 190) under s 464 of the Crimes Act 1958, and the requirements of a valid search warrant under the Crimes Act 1914 (Cth) s 3E;

·         right to apply for a second (and subsequent) appeal against conviction on the basis of “fresh” and “compelling” new evidence;

·         replacement of de novo appeals from the Magistrates’ Court and the Children’s Court, with a “rehearing” procedure;

·         Spent Convictions Act 2021 (Vic) removing much of the stigma and adverse effects of historical convictions; 

·         updated examples of miscarriages of justice caused by judicial error in jury directions and related rulings;

·         updated examples of prosecutorial error in the conduct of criminal trials occasioning a miscarriage of justice;

·         appellate decisions concerning “standard sentencing” and the relevance of the “Verdins principles” to a personality disorder for the purpose of sentencing;

·         renaming of the Drug Treatment Order to the Drug and Alcohol Treatment Order, and the establishment of a new Drug Court Division in the County Court;

·         recent case examples of the value of interlocutory appeals; and

·         the High Court decision in Pell v The Queen [2020] HCA 12.

The fourth edition of Criminal Investigation and Procedure in Victoria provides an up-to-date, concise, and comprehensive account of all key laws relating to criminal investigation and procedure in Victoria. This new edition includes the following topics:

·         Outcomes from the Royal Commission into the Management of Police Informants (2020) comprising the enhanced prosecutorial disclosure obligations, , an on-going duty of informants to provide all relevant information to prosecution authorities; and ; the creation of the Office of Special Investigator;;

·         appellate decisions concerning Victoria police questioning and detention powers (DPP v Hollis [2019] VSCA 110) and the duty to caution suspects (DPP v Hou [2020] VSCA 190) under s 464 of the Crimes Act 1958, and the requirements of a valid search warrant under the Crimes Act 1914 (Cth) s 3E;

·         right to apply for a second (and subsequent) appeal against conviction on the basis of “fresh” and “compelling” new evidence;

·         replacement of de novo appeals from...