The great leap backward: criminal law reform with the Hon Jarrod Bleijie

Trotter, A; Hobbs, H

The great leap backward: criminal law reform with the Hon Jarrod Bleijie

Trotter, A Hobbs, H

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Publisher:: Sydney Law School
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Sydney Law Review, 2014, 36 (1), pp. 1 - 39
Issue Date:: 2014

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dc.contributor.author	Trotter, A	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Hobbs, H https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9903-6908	en_US
dc.date.issued	2014	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Sydney Law Review, 2014, 36 (1), pp. 1 - 39	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	0082-0512	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/130450
dc.description.abstract	On 3 April 2012, the Honourable Member for Kawana, Jarrod Bleijie MP, was sworn in as Attorney-General for Queensland and Minister for Justice. In the period that followed, Queensland’s youngest Attorney-General since Sir Samuel Griffith in 1874 has implemented substantial reforms to the criminal law as part of a campaign to ‘get tough on crime’. Those reforms have been heavily and almost uniformly criticised by the profession, the judiciary and the academy. This article places the reforms in their historical context to illustrate that together they constitute a great leap backward that unravels centuries of gradual reform calculated to improve the state of human rights in criminal justice.	en_US
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dc.title	The great leap backward: criminal law reform with the Hon Jarrod Bleijie	en_US
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Abstract:

On 3 April 2012, the Honourable Member for Kawana, Jarrod Bleijie MP, was sworn in as Attorney-General for Queensland and Minister for Justice. In the period that followed, Queensland’s youngest Attorney-General since Sir Samuel Griffith in 1874 has implemented substantial reforms to the criminal law as part of a campaign to ‘get tough on crime’. Those reforms have been heavily and almost uniformly criticised by the profession, the judiciary and the academy. This article places the reforms in their historical context to illustrate that together they constitute a great leap backward that unravels centuries of gradual reform calculated to improve the state of human rights in criminal justice.

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