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Building reasons: Magistrates' Court

Law event

Monday 17th October 2022

Seminar | 4:15 PM-4:45 PM

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Learn how to use the new precedent reasons builders to provide a structure for your decisions in bail, sentencing and summary contest matters.

Document automation is widely used in law firms to efficiently create documents with standard form content. Now, magistrates will have access to that same technology when assembling reasons in certain criminal matters.

This 30-minute seminar provides a guided tour of our new judicial precedent builders – a way to quickly obtain the relevant parts of the bail, sentencing and summary contest reasons outlines based on the specific issues in your case. You will learn how to use this new tool in the easiest and most efficient manner.

Magistrate Donna Bakos, Head of Criminal Division, Magistrates' Court of Victoria

Matthew Weatherson, Judicial Information Advisor, Judicial College of Victoria