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Title: YDAC : your guide to the Youth Drug Court
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Title: Drugs and the law - Hot Topics series no 59
About: Drug laws in NSW; history of drug laws; possession, use and supply; police powers; youth drug issues, and court processes when charged with drug offences.
Author: Steve Bolt
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Title: Rough deal: a plain English guide to drug laws in NSW 2nd edition
About: Police powers, how to deal with arrest and police searches, how to get legal and medical help and drug law reform. Covers marijuana, heroin, ecstasy, speed and other drugs.
Author: Bolt, Steve
Where: Check your public library.
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Title: Drug offences Chapter 23: The law handbook 11th edition
About: Covers aspects of drug offences such as possession, supply and use of drugs, medicinal cannabis, injecting rooms, dealing, police powers, importing and exporting and customs, bail upon arrest, penalties, diversionary schemes. Covers drug courts and the Youth Drug Court, the Local Court's MERIT scheme, confiscating proceeds of crime.
Where: Check your public library.
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Title: Drugs and the law - Hot Topics series no 59
About: Drug laws in NSW; history of drug laws; possession, use and supply; police powers; youth drug issues, and court processes when charged with drug offences.
Author: Steve Bolt
Where: Check your public library.
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Title: Brown, Farrier, Neal and Weisbrot's criminal laws: materials and commentary on criminal law and process in New South Wales. 4th edition
About: General principles of criminal law; fair trial, elements of criminal offences including actus reus and mens rea; criminal defences, murder, manslaughter, sexual assault, larceny, robbery, drug offences and sentencing. Includes extracts from cases and other legal resources, and new developments cush as the International Criminal Court.
Author: Brown, David et al
Where: Check your public library.
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Lawyers' Tools

Title: Redfern Legal Centre's lawyers practice manual
About: Information about lawyer/client relationship, criminal law, including bail and pleamaking, defending in committal proceedings, drink driving, drugs and shoplifting, street offences such as swearing, prostitution and trespass. Also covers family law, accidents and compensation including workers compensation, tenancy, dividing fences, retirement villages, consumer law, social security, disability law, credit and debt, wills and estates, administrative law, immigration law, employment, discrimination and human rights, veteran's affairs and intellectual property. Location number LIAC/N349.944/6A.
Author: Rees, Neil
Where: Available from the Legal Information Access Centre, State Library of NSW
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