New rights for victims in sentencing
Source: South Australia. Attorney General. Media Release
"Individual victims and entire neighbourhoods will have the right to have the impact of crimes on them heard in court for a wider range of offences under new legislation being introduced into Parliament by Attorney-General Michael Atkinson.For the first time in the State’s legal history, the Government is giving victim-of-crime advocates the absolute right to make victim impact statements at sentencing hearings in summary offences in which there has been a death or total permanent incapacity of a victim."