New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CRIMINAL PROCEDURE ACT 1986 - SECT 72

72 Obligations of legal representative of accused

(1) The accused person's legal representative is to seek to obtain the accused person's instructions concerning the matters to be dealt with in the case conference before participating in the case conference.

(2) The accused person's legal representative must explain the following matters to the accused person before the case conference certificate is completed--

(a) the effect of the scheme for the sentencing discount applied under Part 3 of the Crimes (Sentencing Procedure) Act 1999 for a plea of guilty to an offence,

(b) the penalties applicable to the offences certified in the charge certificate and to any other offences the subject of offers made by the accused or the prosecutor in the committal proceedings,

(c) the effect on the applicable penalty if the accused person were to plead guilty to any offence at different stages of proceedings for the offence.

(3) Subsection (2) applies only in respect of an offence to which Division 1A of Part 3 of the Crimes (Sentencing Procedure) Act 1999 applies.