Abstract
The papers discuss prosecutorial discretion in the administration of criminal justice. They focus on the principles or theory, as well as the practices, governing the exercise of prosecutorial discretion as seen through the eyes of legal practitioners and other leading experts in the field.
Proceedings of a seminar held 7-9 November 1984
Contents
- Introduction
- The discretion to prosecute
The Honourable Senator Gareth Evans Q.C. - Prosecution - in the public interest?
Dr Jacqueline Tombs - Measuring prosecutorial discretion
Ivan Potas - Prosecution discretions - Director of Public Prosecutions Act 1983
Ian Temby Q.C. - Prosecutorial discretion and administrative law
Peter Bayne - Prosecutorial discretion in Victoria
Richard Read - Limitations and controls on the exercise by prosecutors of their discretion
James Glissan - The role of the police prosecutor in the magistrates court system
Superintendent Peter Sweeny - Granting immunity from prosecution
Paul Byrne - Reflections on nolles
John Willis - Prosecutorial discretion and mentally abnormal offenders
Dr Susan Hayes - Pre-trial diversion: a magistrate's perspective
Terry Syddall S.M. - Concluding sessions
- Prosecutorial discretion and corporate crime
Brent Fisse - Open forum
- Summing up
Dr Jacqueline Tombs - Appendix I
Seminar program - Appendix II
Participants list