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Sentencing considerations - breaches of protection orders

NSW

• Judicial Commission of NSW, Sentencing Bench Book (updated 2021).

  See [63.515]-[63.518] sentencing domestic violence offences.

QLD

• Magistrates Court of Queensland, Domestic and Family Violence Protection Act 2012 Bench Book (2021).
  Sections [20.1], [20.2], [20.3]; [20.8];[20.9] discuss the principles and issues relating to the sentencing for breach of a domestic violence order or police protection notice.

Vic

• Judicial College of Victoria, Family Violence Bench Book (2014).

  See [4.1.1] - [4.1.3] for a discussion of sentencing and family violence in the context of the Family Violence Protection Act 2008.

  See [4.2] for a discussion of sentencing for other criminal offences in the context of family violence.