Participants at this seminar discussed the seemingly contradictory controversies in sentencing at the moment: abolishing sentences of imprisonment of six months or less, and on the other hand demanding that for particular offences there be “mandatory” minimum terms of imprisonment. 

Chair: Justice Greg James, New South Wales Supreme Court
Seminar convener: Judge Stephen Norrish, District Court of New South Wales

Speakers:

Cameron Murphy, President, NSW Council for Civil Liberties Inc.
Ian Harrison, President, Bar Association.
Pauline Wright, Law Society Councillor and Chair of the Society's Criminal Law Committee, NSW Law Society:
'Impact of Abolishing Short Prison Sentences'
Kenneth B Marslew AM, Enough Is Enough:
'Observations of an ordinary bloke - On sentencing'

Date: 24 May 2004, 5.30pm
Venue: Assembly Hall, level 4 (street level) Sydney University Law School, 173-175 Philip St Sydney
Registration: $30 waged/$15 concessions (GST incl.) 
Late Registration: (register on the day): $33 waged/$16.50 concessions (GST incl.) 
No charge for Institute of Criminology members.