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Criminal and Traffic Offences

QLD

This publication guides practitioners through criminal and traffic offences in the Magistrates Court of Queensland, domestic violence orders and Commonwealth offences.

5 Matter Plans

Overview

The Criminal and Traffic Offences commentaries cover all aspects of criminal matters, with an emphasis on criminal procedure and sentencing for summary and indictable offences in the Magistrates Court of Queensland. They cover the key stages from charging, to bail, a defended hearing or a plea of guilty, and sentencing. Practical guidance in preparing for court is included, with detailed commentary on analysing the charge and considering evidence.

The Domestic Violence Order guide covers applying for an order, negotiating, varying and appeals.

The supplementary Commonwealth offences guide assists practitioners in advising and representing clients charged with offences under the Crimes Act 1914 (Cth) and the Commonwealth Criminal Code. The commentary sets out the procedure for summary and indictable Commonwealth offences from bail considerations to sentencing. The possible sentencing options are covered in detail, and there is a very useful table of the Commonwealth offences most frequently encountered.

The Reference materials folder includes guidance on electronic signing and remote witnessing, and the Getting the matter underway folder contains essential compliance and client engagement documents. The comprehensive Retainer Instructions ensure that all necessary information is gathered from the client at the outset of the matter.

Also included is 101 Subpoena Answers, which is a useful reference guide.

Precedents in this publication include:

  • Library of initial letters to clients, covering a variety of offences and possible outcomes;
  • Letters to:
    • clients;
    • police;
    • the Crown;
    • third parties, including witnesses and experts;
  • Information sheets for clients explaining the court processes and what to do on the day of the hearing;
  • Attendance notes for every stage.
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5 Matter Plans Included

  • Item icon ALERT - A new diversion scheme for some domestic and family violence offences applies from 26 May 2025.
    A new diversion scheme for some domestic and family violence offences applies from 26 May 2025.

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  • Item icon Full Commentary - Magistrates Court Criminal (QLD)
  • Folder icon Reference materials
    • Item icon AI Prompts
      An AI prompt defines a specific task for AI to perform, like drafting a particular document, and provides clear instructions on how to execute that task. The goal is for the AI to quickly create a useful first draft of a document, which the user verifies and refines into a final version, ultimately ...

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    • Item icon Looking to the Future
    • Item icon Electronic Signing and Witnessing
    • Item icon 101 Subpoena Answers
    • Item icon 101 Costs Answers
    • Folder icon Papers and articles - Litigation
      • Item icon Improving written submissions - A paper by Judge Alan Troy
      • Item icon Plain language – A paper by the Hon. Michael Kirby AC CMG
    • Item icon Calculating Penalty Units - All States and Territories
    • Item icon Further information
  • Item icon Overview
    All criminal charges, regardless of their seriousness, commence in the Magistrates Court. Depending on whether the offence is summary or indictable, the matter will either be finalised in the Magistrates Court or committed to a higher court. See Summary or Indictable offences.

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  • Folder icon A. Getting the matter underway - First contact
    • Item icon File cover sheet - Criminal
    • Item icon To do list - Criminal
    • Item icon First steps
    • Item icon Client details and verifying identity
    • Item icon Retainer instructions - Criminal
    • Item icon Retainer instructions - Domestic violence order
    • Item icon Conflict of interest check
    • Item icon Attendance note - Conflict of interest check - No conflict
    • Item icon Attendance note - Conflict of interest check - Conflict identified
    • Item icon Engagement and costs management
      The Legal Profession Act 2007 obliges firms to enter into costs agreements with clients. The client needs to sign a costs agreement and place advance funding into the firm’s trust account, even if the retainer is a fixed fee.

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    • Item icon Costs agreement - QLD
    • Item icon Abbreviated costs disclosure - Costs under $3000
    • Item icon Initial letter to client enclosing costs agreement
    • Item icon Time and costs estimates
    • Folder icon If required - Updating costs disclosure
      • Item icon Letter to client updating costs disclosure
      • Item icon Charge securing costs
      • Item icon Guarantee securing costs
      • Folder icon Costs disclosure before settlement in litigation matters
        • Item icon Letter to client - Costs disclosure before settlement - NSW, VIC, and WA
        • Item icon Letter to client - Costs disclosure before settlement - QLD, SA, TAS, ACT, and NT
    • Item icon First contact – At the police station
      To be able to assist the client it is important for the practitioner to be familiar with, or at least able to refer to Chapters 14, 15, 16, 17, and 18 of the Police Powers and Responsibilities Act 2000. These cover a wide range of relevant matters including:

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    • Item icon Police station instructions and advice record
    • Item icon Attendance note - Attending client at police station
    • Item icon Letter to client on bail following attendance at police station
    • Item icon Letter to client refused bail following attendance at police station
    • Item icon Record of interview
      Despite the useful rule of thumb that instructions on the allegations are not obtained at the police station, it may be necessary to obtain some instructions to give appropriate advice to the client about whether to participate in a Record Of Interview (ROI). For example, in an allegation of rape ...

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    • Item icon First contact – In the office
      Instructions Even the simplest plea requires full instructions from the client.

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    • Item icon Instructions
      Even the simplest plea requires full instructions from the client. The police will provide a copy of the Court Brief (QP9) prior to the first return date and must provide the defence with a copy at the first return date. The full brief of evidence will not be produced by the police at the first ...

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    • Item icon Plea and mitigation instruction sheet
    • Item icon Initial letter to client before first court date
    • Item icon Enclosure - Court reference information sheet
    • Folder icon General deeds, agreements, execution clauses, and statutory declarations
      • Item icon Deeds and Agreements
      • Folder icon Deeds
        • Item icon Deed for general use
        • Item icon Deed of guarantee
        • Item icon Deed of release
        • Item icon General deed of indemnity
        • Item icon Deed of assignment of agreement
        • Item icon Deed of gift
        • Folder icon Library of standard clauses for deeds
          • Item icon Amendment
          • Item icon Confidentiality for defined information - All parties
          • Item icon Confidentiality for defined information - One party
          • Item icon Confidentiality for terms of deed - All parties
          • Item icon Confidentiality for terms of deed - One party
          • Item icon Costs
          • Item icon Counterparts
          • Item icon Dispute resolution
          • Item icon Events beyond control
          • Item icon Governing law and jurisdiction
          • Item icon Interpretation
          • Item icon No assignment
          • Item icon Notices
          • Item icon Severance
          • Item icon Waiver
          • Item icon Whole agreement
      • Folder icon Agreements
        • Item icon Agreement for general use
        • Item icon Heads of agreement
        • Item icon Non-disclosure agreement - Formal
        • Item icon Non-disclosure agreement - Informal
        • Folder icon Library of standard clauses for agreements
          • Item icon Amendment
          • Item icon Confidentiality for defined information - All parties
          • Item icon Confidentiality for defined information - One party
          • Item icon Confidentiality for terms of agreement - All parties
          • Item icon Confidentiality for terms of agreement - One party
          • Item icon Costs
          • Item icon Counterparts
          • Item icon Dispute resolution
          • Item icon Events beyond control
          • Item icon Governing law and jurisdiction
          • Item icon Interpretation
          • Item icon No assignment
          • Item icon Notices
          • Item icon Severance
          • Item icon Waiver
          • Item icon Whole agreement
      • Folder icon Execution clauses
        • Folder icon Library of execution clauses for agreements
          • Item icon Attorney
          • Item icon Authorised officer
          • Item icon Company
          • Item icon Company - Sole director
          • Item icon Individual
          • Item icon Individual - No witness
        • Folder icon Library of execution clauses for deeds
          • Item icon Attorney
          • Item icon Authorised officer
          • Item icon Company
          • Item icon Company - Sole director
          • Item icon Individual
      • Folder icon Statutory declarations
        • Item icon Commonwealth statutory declaration
        • Item icon Statutory declaration - blank - ACT
        • Item icon Statutory declaration - blank - NSW
        • Item icon Statutory declaration - blank - VIC
        • Item icon Statutory declaration - blank - QLD
        • Item icon Statutory declaration - blank - TAS
        • Item icon Statutory declaration - blank - SA
        • Item icon Statutory declaration - blank - WA
        • Item icon Statutory declaration - blank - NT
        • Item icon Standard annexure note for documents
      • Item icon Standard annexure note for documents
  • Folder icon B. Bail
    • Item icon Bail overview
      Bail applications need to be carefully considered, prepared, and presented. They are not an afterthought, nor a matter of going through the motions. They are serious and high-level advocacy work. A person’s liberty, and potentially the safety of other people, are at stake. Bail is governed by the ...

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    • Item icon Bail conditions
      Bail can be granted to an accused on their own undertaking, being simply a promise to appear at the next court date, or on conditions such as:

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    • Item icon Bail application
      Preparing a bail application requires consideration of the:

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    • Item icon Bail Act considerations
      Unacceptable risk Section 16 of the Bail Act 1980 requires a police officer or a court to refuse bail if satisfied there is an unacceptable risk the defendant will fail to appear and surrender into custody, commit an offence, endanger anyone, or interfere with witnesses or the course of ...

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    • Item icon Bail procedure
      If the defendant is not given police bail, they will be remanded in custody and taken to court as soon as reasonably practicable. Depending on the size of the court complex, custody matters will be dealt with in a separate court. In smaller courts, the custody matters will be dealt with first, ...

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    • Item icon Sureties
      Part 3 of the Bail Act 1980 provides for undertakings and sureties. One of the matters that will need to be considered in preparing for a bail application is the question of a surety, sometimes required by magistrates to address the risk that the defendant will fail to appear.

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    • Item icon Retainer instructions - Bail application
    • Item icon Letter to counsel with brief for bail application
    • Item icon Letter to bail guarantor
    • Item icon Letter to client in prison regarding date for bail application
    • Item icon Standardised bail conditions
    • Item icon Letter to court enclosing bail application
    • Item icon Letter to prosecution enclosing bail application
    • Item icon Letter to client after successful bail application
    • Item icon Letter to client in prison after unsuccessful bail application
    • Item icon Application for Bail in the Court before which the indictment was presented
    • Item icon Application for Revocation or variation of Bail by prosecutor
    • Item icon Application for Variation of Bail
    • Item icon Application by Surety for Discharge
    • Item icon Application for Bail in the Supreme Court
    • Item icon Application for bail in the District Court following a filing of a notice of appeal to a District Court judge
    • Item icon Affidavit of justification
    • Folder icon If required - Online application for a court event
      • Item icon Online application for a court event – Magistrates Court
  • Folder icon C. Preparations
    • Item icon Analysing the charge
      Prosecution disclosure

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    • Item icon Summary or indictable matters
      To determine how the client’s matter will proceed, it is necessary to determine whether it is a summary offence or an indictable offence. Regulatory and summary offences are dealt with in the Magistrates Court: s 19 of the Justices Act 1886.

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    • Item icon Penalty infringement notices
      The client may have received a Penalty Infringement Notice (PIN) under the State Penalties Enforcement Act 1999, which provides for the issue of PINs for certain non-indictable offences as specified in the regulations under the Act. The client may wish to go to court either to dispute the offence ...

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    • Item icon Negotiating with the prosecution
      The Court Brief (QP9) needs to contain the client’s criminal history, a factual summary of the details of the offences, and the legislation under which the client has been charged. While the client may wish to plead guilty to the offence as charged, the factual summary in the QP9 may not reflect ...

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    • Item icon Attendance note - Taking full instructions
    • Item icon Letter to client requesting evidence
    • Item icon Letter to potential alibi witness
    • Item icon Letter to potential witness
    • Item icon Attendance note - Conference with defence witness
    • Item icon Letter to local area command making representations
    • Item icon Letter to director public prosecutions making representations
    • Folder icon If required - Failed representations
      • Item icon Letter to local area command or DPP in relation to failed representations
    • Item icon Written instructions to plead guilty
  • Folder icon D. Going to court
    • Item icon Procedure and time frames
      Practice directions Lawyers appearing in criminal matters need to be familiar with the court’s relevant practice directions.

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    • Item icon General Form of Application to a Court
    • Item icon Application for a direction hearing
    • Item icon General Form of Order
    • Item icon Attendance note - Brief to counsel
    • Item icon Brief to counsel - Criminal
    • Item icon AI Prompt for Brief to counsel
    • Item icon Example content - Brief to counsel - Criminal
    • Item icon Letter to counsel enclosing brief
    • Item icon Attendance note - Advice on plea
    • Item icon First appearance
      If the client is in custody, the first appearance will be the same day they are charged or the next day. The court will wish to know if there is to be any bail application so time can be set aside, or a further date can be set if required. The lawyer appearing for an accused in custody needs to be ...

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    • Item icon Second appearance
      If required, the second appearance will be 14 to 21 days after the first appearance, or a longer period as might be necessary for the regular sitting days of the court. The court will generally expect a plea to be entered, and adjournments will not be granted unless there is good reason, such ...

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    • Item icon Subsequent and interlocutory mentions
      All listings outside the usual procedure are at the discretion of the court. Additional or lengthy adjournments will not be granted without good reason. Sufficient reasons may include:

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    • Item icon Case conferencing
      See Practice Direction No. 9 of 2010. The matter needs to be adjourned for case conferencing if it is not going to be a plea of guilty on the first or second return date. The defence solicitor must liaise with the prosecution regarding the facts and issues in dispute and seek a resolution such as:

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    • Item icon Committal or summary callover
      Committals, or summary callovers, will be between 14 and 21 days after the second appearance, or if the second appearance is not required, between 14 and 21 days after the first appearance, or a longer period as might be necessary for the regular sitting days of the court. A partial brief ...

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    • Item icon Hearing on disputed facts
      If there is a dispute on the facts that cannot be resolved either through formal negotiations with the prosecution or by speaking to the prosecutor at court, the correct procedure is for the matter to be listed for hearing. The drawback for the accused is that one of the practical benefits of a ...

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    • Item icon Court attendance sheet
    • Item icon Attendance note - Court appearance
    • Item icon Letter to client advising court date
    • Item icon Letter to court requesting interpreter
    • Folder icon If required - Online application for a court event
      • Item icon Online application for a court event – Magistrates Court
    • Item icon Attendance note - Reviewing additional prosecution material
    • Item icon Letter to client enclosing prosecution evidence and make appointment for instructions
    • Item icon Letter to client informing of hearing date
    • Item icon Attendance note - Preparation of witness statement
    • Item icon Letter to witness enclosing statement
    • Item icon Letter to counsel enclosing defence witness statements
    • Item icon Letter to witness with arrangements for attendance at hearing
    • Item icon Attendance note - Considering client's previous convictions
    • Item icon Attendance note - Considering custody record
    • Item icon Attendance note - Considering prosecution evidence
    • Item icon Attendance note - Viewing CCTV footage with client
    • Item icon Attendance note - Viewing CCTV footage without client
    • Item icon Attendance note - Viewing client's police interview
    • Item icon Letter to police requesting items not served
    • Item icon Letter to client who failed to attend court - Matter adjourned
    • Item icon Letter to client who failed to attend court - Warrant issued
    • Item icon Written instructions to plead guilty
    • Item icon Application for a Direction or Ruling
    • Item icon Application for disclosure obligation direction
    • Item icon Application for alleging non-compliance with disclosure obligation direction
  • Folder icon E. Summary matters - Plea of guilty
    • Item icon Plea and mitigation instruction sheet
    • Item icon Instructions to plead guilty
    • Item icon Preparing for a plea of guilty
      If the client wishes to plead guilty, obtain written instructions to that effect before proceeding. The instructions need to be signed, including:

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    • Item icon Letter to client in preparation of steps to be taken for a plea of guilty
    • Item icon Character references
      If the matter is proceeding as a plea of guilty and the client wishes to rely on prior good character advise the client to obtain character references: ss 9(2)(f) and 11 of the Penalties and Sentences Act 1992. References have to be specific to the offence, addressed to the presiding ...

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    • Item icon Enclosure - Court reference information sheet
    • Item icon Enclosure - Information sheet on criminal records of employees
    • Item icon Recompense
      A willingness to make recompense to the victim of an offence is an indication of the client’s contrition and remorse. Practitioners can address this issue with the client before the sentence hearing. In the event of the offence having caused some injury, loss or damage, ensure the issue of ...

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    • Item icon Pre-sentence reports
      Before going to court, consider whether the magistrate is likely to require a Pre-Sentence Report (PSR) and if an adjournment will be required. Alert the client to this likelihood and make sure to include the cost of the adjournment and dealing with the report in the fee disclosure. Pre-sentence ...

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    • Item icon Conducting the plea
      It is important when conducting a plea before the Magistrates Court to be concise. Most courts are very busy, and it is important not to waffle or waste time. This will only irritate the magistrate, and an irritated magistrate is not necessarily going to be converted to the client’s cause or be ...

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    • Item icon Plea procedure
      Normally, the procedure in the conduct of a plea is as follows:

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    • Item icon Court attendance sheet
  • Folder icon F. Summary matters - Plea of not guilty
    • Item icon Preparing for hearing
      By this stage, the lawyer has analysed the charge and identified the client’s defence: see Preparations. It is now a matter of planning how that defence will be presented in court, which requires the lawyer to turn their mind to the evidence needed to support the client’s case. This means taking a ...

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    • Item icon Attendance note - Preparation for hearing
    • Item icon Proof of evidence
      A full statement needs to be obtained from the client as to all the facts and circumstances surrounding their case and the specific evidence they propose to give. Explain to the client this is not for the court or the prosecution. It will only be seen by the client and their lawyers. It confirms ...

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    • Item icon Proof of evidence
    • Item icon Attendance note - Preparation of proof
    • Item icon Attendance note - Considering amended proof of evidence
    • Item icon Letter to client sending proof of evidence
    • Item icon Subpoenas
      If calling any witnesses besides the client, issue subpoenas to them well before the hearing date to ensure their attendance at the hearing date. Likewise, any document that it is intended to adduce as evidence in the hearing need to be subpoenaed, and an early return date sought. If the police ...

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    • Item icon Subpoena to Attend Court
    • Item icon Notice to be served with form 21 subpoena
    • Item icon Subpoena to produce a document to the proper officer of the court
    • Item icon Notice to be served with form 22 subpoena
    • Item icon Police subpoena schedule
    • Item icon Prosecution witnesses
      On a summary hearing, witness statements are not tendered to the court, and the prosecution must lead evidence in chief from all witnesses they want to call. The normal course of events is for the prosecution to call their witnesses in order, and then the defence may cross-examine them.

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    • Item icon Letter to client as to outcome of case conference
    • Item icon Letter to client requesting conference after receiving facts and QP9
    • Item icon No case to answer
      A submission may be made by the defence at the close of the prosecution evidence that the defendant has no case to answer and the charges should be dismissed because the prosecution has insufficient evidence to prove them to the required standard. Whether a no case submission succeeds or fails is a ...

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    • Item icon The defence case
      The defence can make an opening statement with the leave of the court, but this does not occur often. The magistrate will ask whether the accused intends to call evidence. If it is proposed to call evidence, the defence lawyer needs to tell the magistrate the names of the proposed witnesses and the ...

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    • Item icon Costs
      Costs against the prosecution are often very difficult to get. However, costs for lack of disclosure are somewhat easier. Costs are governed by Part 6, Division 8 of the Justices Act 1886. Section 158 deals with costs on dismissal. Costs are discretionary, and s 158A deals with ...

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    • Item icon Court attendance sheet
    • Item icon Attendance note - Additional preparation for hearing
    • Item icon Attendance note - Preparation for adjourned hearing
    • Item icon Letter to client found guilty - Adjourned for sentence
    • Folder icon If required - Online application for a court event
      • Item icon Online application for a court event – Magistrates Court
  • Folder icon G. Committal proceedings
    • Item icon Procedure for committals
      No matter whose election it is to proceed by indictment, the accused is not required to enter a plea until the police brief has been served. Once a matter has been listed for committal, after the case conference, the prosecution prepares the brief of evidence and gives the defence a copy. A police ...

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    • Item icon Application to cross-examine witnesses at the committal
      Consent of the prosecution, or an order of the court, is required to cross-examine prosecution witnesses at committal. If required, an application to cross-examine is made at the committal callover: s 110B(3) of the Justices Act 1886. The application needs to set out which witnesses are ...

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    • Item icon Notice of intention to proceed via registry committal
    • Item icon Notice of intention to proceed via registry committal
    • Item icon Notice of intention to proceed via registry committal on amended substituted charges
    • Item icon Acknowledgement of plea
    • Item icon Application for a witness to attend before the court in a committal proceeding
    • Item icon Costs in committals
      There is no provision for awarding of costs to the accused in committal proceedings.

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  • Folder icon H. Sentencing
    • Item icon Instructions to plead guilty
    • Item icon What the magistrate considers
      Section 12 of the Penalties and Sentences Act 1992 sets out what the court takes into account when considering whether to record a conviction or not. Section 9 of the Penalties and Sentences Act 1992 sets out the relevant considerations for the court when imposing a sentence.

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    • Item icon Written submissions
      Written submissions on sentence are appropriate for complex applications, or for some types of offences, for example, sexual offences. Any discussion of the offending behaviour, the client’s circumstances and background, and other material to assist the court in its sentencing exercise is set out ...

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    • Item icon AI Prompt for Submissions for section 19 application - No conviction
    • Item icon AI Prompt for Submissions for section 32 application - Conviction
    • Item icon AI Prompt for Submissions for section 32 application with violence or harm - Conviction
    • Item icon Interstate convictions
      Interstate convictions can be considered by the court on sentence, but they do not generally appear on the Queensland criminal history the police tender to the court and do not have to be voluntarily disclosed. However, a lawyer has a duty not to mislead the court and if asked to tell the court of ...

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    • Item icon Rehabilitation and specific programs
      An important issue relevant to sentence is the client’s prospects of rehabilitation. If there are medical issues relevant to the client’s offending behaviour, obtain a report from the client’s general practitioner (GP) and any attending specialist, subject to the client’s ability to pay for such ...

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    • Item icon Letter instructing psychiatrist or psychologist
    • Item icon References
      Advise the client about obtaining character testimonials or references. This applies equally where the client has been found guilty after a hearing as to when they are pleading guilty, although the content of the references might need to differ in the absence of a guilty plea. See Character ...

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    • Item icon Pre-sentence reports
      Before going to court, consider whether the magistrate is likely to require a Pre-Sentence Report (PSR) and if an adjournment will be required. Alert the client to this likelihood and make sure to include the cost of the adjournment and dealing with the report in the fee disclosure. Pre-sentence ...

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    • Item icon Medical reports
      Particularly with drug and alcohol offences, an important issue relevant to sentence is the client’s prospects of rehabilitation. If there are medical issues relevant to the client’s offending behaviour, obtain a report from the client’s general practitioner and any attending specialist, subject to ...

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    • Item icon Non-custodial sentences
      Bonds A bond or recognisance is a promise entered into and recorded before a court. There are three kinds of bonds under the Penalties and Sentences Act 1992.

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    • Item icon Orders of suspended imprisonment
      Suspended sentences are often referred to or thought of as non-custodial sentences. They are, in fact, sentences of imprisonment suspended either wholly or partially. This means the offender will only serve some, if any, time in prison. Any breach of a suspended sentence will involve the offender ...

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    • Item icon Drug and Alcohol Treatment Order
      Part 8A of the Penalties and Sentences Act 1992 deals with specific drug and alcohol treatment orders for certain offenders whose criminal behaviour is linked to their severe drug or alcohol use. A treatment order may only be made for an offender if the offender has a severe substance use ...

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    • Item icon Imprisonment
      Imprisonment is only ordered as a last resort if the court is satisfied there were no appropriate alternative sentences: s 9(12) of the Penalties and Sentences Act 1992. This does not apply to all offences, for example, certain violent or child-related sex offences, so check the legislation, ...

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    • Item icon After sentence has been imposed
      The lawyer’s role and retainer do not end at the moment submissions on sentence are completed, nor when the bench passes sentence on the client. Explain the outcome to the client. Most laypeople can sit in court and listen to a judicial officer give a short ex tempore decision on sentence and then ...

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    • Item icon Disclosure of convictions
      See the Criminal Law (Rehabilitation of Offenders) Act 1986. If no conviction has been recorded, the client is not obliged to disclose their conviction.

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    • Item icon Court attendance sheet
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    • Item icon Appeals
      Appeals from decisions of the Magistrates Court can be made to the District Court under the Justices Act 1886. There is an appeal right to the District Court by any person who has been convicted or sentenced in the Magistrates Court: s 222. As appeal is a right leave does not have to be sought.

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    • Item icon Notice of appeal to a District Court Judge
    • Item icon Notice of appeal or application for leave to appeal against conviction or sentence
    • Item icon Notice of application for extension of time for filing notice of appeal to a district court judge
    • Item icon Certificate of readiness - District Court
    • Item icon Notice of application for extension of time within which to appeal
    • Item icon Application for rehearing or reopening
    • Item icon Notice of abandonment of appeal or subsequent appeal or application
    • Item icon Application to Transmit Summary Charge to Supreme or District Court
    • Item icon Court attendance sheet
    • Item icon Notice of discontinuance of appeal or application
  • Folder icon J. Finalising the matter
    • Item icon Letter to client finalising the matter and confirming outcome of plea
    • Item icon Letter to client after sentence - Select outcome
    • Item icon Letter to client after sentence - Insert outcome
    • Item icon Letter to client found guilty
    • Item icon Letter to client found not guilty
    • Item icon Letter to client - No charges following attendance at police station
    • Item icon Letter to police after no charges for the return of client's property
    • Item icon Letter to police after client found not guilty for return of client's property
    • Item icon Example invoice incorporating notification of client's rights - QLD
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