The weekly legal digest, Queensland criminal law weekly, arrives on Monday mornings around 7:00am. It rounds up what changed in Queensland criminal law since your last edition:
- Decisions: new criminal judgments from the Court of Appeal down to the Magistrates Courts, each with a short plain-English summary of what happened and the outcome. The summaries are generated from the judgment's catchwords and orders, so read the judgment itself before you rely on one.
- Practice directions: new directions from the courts, including registry closures and procedural changes.
- Appointments: new judges and magistrates, taken from the official court listings.
- Legislation: changes to maximum penalties and repealed sections. These appear only after a person has checked them against the current consolidation and the offence data has actually been updated. Items merely flagged for review are never included, so when this section says a maximum moved, it moved.
- From the community: new local knowledge posts and revised benchbook chapters.
A few things to know:
- Sections with nothing in them are left out, and a week with nothing at all sends no email.
- Each decision links to its page in Acquit, where you can read the full summary and the judgment itself.
- It's on by default. To turn it off, go to Settings → Notifications and switch off the Weekly legal digest toggle, or use the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any edition.