This recommendation is closely related to the work for Recommendation 112, which involves addressing the circumstance where victim survivors remain liable for infringement penalties even when they did not commit the offending. As part of our approach, the Department of Justice and Regulation will work on these recommendations simultaneously to create a holistic approach for the justice system to interact with victim survivors with infringements in their name.
Our work on this recommendation involves:
- developing a case file management framework for the infringements system to deal with the intersection between the infringements and family violence systems
- developing the legislative proposal and consultation paper
- undertaking consultation with stakeholders through existing justice processes, including the Chief Magistrate’s Family Violence Taskforce
- developing the legislation through the usual legislative drafting processes