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At a fitness hearing the court determines whether an accused is fit to stand trial. The ‘fitness test’ is found in s 36 of the  Mental Health and Cognitive Impairment Forensic Provisions Act 2020 No 12 (NSW) (‘the Act’) and lays out when an accused is taken to be unfit to be tried for an offence due to a mental health or cognitive impairment. Mental health impairment and cognitive impairment are defined in s 4 and s 5 of the Act and are extracted below followed by the Fitness

If you have been charged with a criminal offence and enter a plea of guilty at an early stage of court proceedings, you will receive a...

Table 1 and Table 2 offences are listed in Schedule 1 of the Criminal Procedure Act 1986 (NSW) and are categorised to provide guidance on...

Investigative journalist Hannah Ryan reports on ABC's Backyard Briefing of the terrible medical overreach resulting in two children's forcible separation from their families. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-04-09/munchausens-by-proxy-mothers-poisoning-their-children-acquitted/100973092

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