Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Sentencing Act 1991 - SECT 18ZI

Case conferences

18ZI. Case conferences



(1) For the purpose of being informed from time to time about the progress
being made by an offender subject to a drug treatment order, the magistrate
constituting the Drug Court may convene a case conference.

(2) A case conference may be attended by a lawyer, a prosecutor, a health
service provider, a community corrections officer or anyone else whom the
magistrate thinks should attend.

(3) For the purposes of section 91 of the Corrections Act 1986, an officer
referred to in that section who discloses at a case conference information
about an offender subject to a drug treatment order is taken to be performing
his or her official duties.

(4) No objection can be taken to a magistrate subsequently constituting the
Drug Court in a proceeding on the ground that he or she had previously
convened a case conference in relation to the proceeding.