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Title: Common offences: drugs Details »
Link: www.theshopfront.org/documents/Drug_Offences_004524203v ...
Date: March 2006

Title: YDAC : your guide to the Youth Drug Court Details »
Link: www.legalaid.nsw.gov.au/asp/index.asp?pgid=106
Date: May 2008

Practical guides

  At your public library

Title: Drug offences Chapter 23 The law handbook 10th ed - a Find Legal Answers Tool Kit book Details »
Note: 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.
Date: 2007
Where: At your public library

Title: Drugs and the law - Hot Topics series Details »
Author: Steve Bolt
Date: 2006
Where: At your public library

Title: Rough deal: a plain English guide to drug laws in NSW 2nd ed - a Find Legal Answers Tool Kit book Details »
Author: Bolt, Steve
Note: A practical guide to drug laws in New South Wales. Covers marijuana, heroin, ecstasy, speed and other drugs. Covers a range of subjects relating to drugs including: police powers, how to deal with arrest and police searches, how to get legal and medical help and drug law reform.
Date: 2005
Where: At your public library

Legal texts

  At your closest LIAC library

Title: Brown, Farrier, Neal and Weisbrot's criminal laws: materials and commentary on criminal law and process in New South Wales. 4th edition - printed book in LIAC libraries Details »
Author: Brown, David et al
Note: A criminal law textbook which covers the general principles of criminal law and new developments such as the International Criminal Court, criminal processes including the issues of a fair trial, discretion, and miscarriages of justice, elements of criminal offences including actus reus and mens rea, criminal defences, murder, manslaughter, assault, sexual assault, larceny, robbery, public order and drug offences and sentencing, including sentencing options. Includes extracts from cases and other legal resources.
Date: 2006
Where: At your closest LIAC library

Title: Public health law and regulation - printed book in LIAC libraries Details »
Author: Reynolds, Christopher
Note: Covers changes and provides an up-to- date and critical treatment of public health law. It covers key issues and developments in areas of sanitation, food, drugs and communicable disease.
Date: 2004
Where: At your closest LIAC library

Lawyers' tools

  State Library LIAC

Title: Redfern Legal Centre's lawyers practice manual Details »
Author: Rees, Neil
Note: 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.
Where: State Library LIAC

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