Parking matters

The Office prosecutes those parking offences which end up in court. There were 93 parking matters completed in the reporting period.

Sentence Administration Board

The Sentence Administration Board is established under the Crimes (Sentence Administration) Act 2005. The Board has functions in relation to parole, periodic detention and release of offenders on licence. One of the functions of the Director is to attend meetings of the Board to make submissions in relation to specific matters, especially in relation to the law on sentencing and the interpretation of applicable legislation. Senior prosecutors from the Office appear before the Board when occasion demands. However, the Board as presently constituted rarely requests such assistance.

Criminal Law Resource Centre

The Criminal Law Resource Centre (CLRC) contributes to the operation of the Office by developing and maintaining three main areas of operation. The first of these is the Office website where work has progressed on the WCAG 2.0 compliance requirements. The website can now be accessed on mobile devices and the content of site is in the final stages of conversion to ensure full compliance.

The intranet is the second area managed by the Resource Centre. This service provides quick access to internal communications as well as commonly used resources and information, essential to the work of the Office.

The third area is the resource component which includes law reports, monographs, legislation, iPads and similar devices, online subscriptions to case law and commentary, reference material and research. These resources are managed through the CLRC catalogue which also provides quick and easy access to sentence data, judgments and continuing legal education materials.

Case Reports

The following cases are included in the report to illustrate the breadth of work of the Office or because they involve significant issues. Cases specific to particular areas of work are reported elsewhere in this report.

Yuen, Elphick & Ashcroft

Shortly after midnight on the morning of Monday 10 May 2010, Brendan Welsh drove a blue Hyundai Excel into Whittle Street Hughes, at the rear of the Hughes Shops to conduct what he thought was a low level drug deal. Cameron Ashcroft approached the car to buy drugs, and then stepped to one side and Kai Edgar Yuen emerged and through the partially opened window, fired a shot from a 12 gauge double barrel shotgun into Welsh’s chest – killing him instantly. As the car jolted forward, Yuen fired a second shot, this time hitting the “B” pillar between the front and rear right side doors. Yuen ran back to a nearby car being driven by his flatmate Todd Elphick, and was driven away from the scene. On the way back to the flat shared by Yuen and Elphick, Elphick stopped the car to allow Yuen to throw the murder weapon down a drain.

Yuen and Welsh had been best friends since school, and the murder was motivated by a petty argument over Welsh borrowing a car for longer than expected. This argument escalated through a series of angry SMS exchanges, eventuating in Yuen and Welsh causing damage to each other’s

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