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- Australia (National)· 2026· Productivity CommissionfavorableHigh precedentstatistics
Productivity Commission ROGS 2026 — Youth Justice Cost Analysis
Cost comparison: detention vs community supervision
cost-analysisdetention-costsrogsvalue-for-money - Australia (National)· 2025· Productivity CommissionfavorableHigh precedentstatistical report
ROGS Youth Justice - Productivity Commission Annual
Annual national benchmarking: $644M nationally, 66% detention vs 30% community. 734 children detained. Indigenous 23x overrepresented.
datafundingyouth-justice - ACT, Australia· 2025· ACT Legislative AssemblyfavorableHigh precedentlegislative reform
ACT Raises Age of Criminal Responsibility to 14
First Australian jurisdiction to raise minimum age to 14 (July 2025). Evidence from health, neuroscience, and human rights.
age-of-responsibilityyouth-justice - Tasmania, Australia· 2024· Commission of InquiryfavorableHigh precedentinquiry
Commission of Inquiry into Tasmania's Government Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (2024)
Decades of abuse at Ashley Youth Detention Centre
ashleychild-abuseinstitutional-failuretasmania - Victoria, Australia· 2024· Victorian ParliamentfavorableHigh precedentlegislative reform
Victorian Youth Justice Act 2024 - Raising the Age
Victoria legislated to raise minimum age of criminal responsibility from 10 to 12 (2024), then to 14 by 2027. First state with phased raise-the-age approach.
age-of-responsibilityindigenous-rightsyouth-justice - Victoria, Australia· 2024· Victorian ParliamentfavorableHigh precedentlegislation
Victorian Youth Justice Bill 2024
Raising minimum age to 12 then 14
dual-trackraise-the-agereformvictoria - Australia (National)· 2024favorableHigh precedent
Tasmania Ashley Youth Detention Centre Closure 2024
abuse-responseclosuretasmaniatherapeutic-replacement - New South Wales, Australia· 2023· Independent EvaluationfavorableHigh precedentreport
Deadly Connections Diversion Evaluation (2023)
Aboriginal community-controlled diversion in Western Sydney
aboriginal-leddeadly-connectionsdiversionwestern-sydney - ACT, Australia· 2023· ACT Legislative AssemblyfavorableHigh precedentlegislation
ACT Children and Young People (Minimum Age of Criminal Responsibility) Amendment Act 2023
Raising minimum age of criminal responsibility to 14
actcriminal-responsibilityraise-the-agereform - New South Wales, Australia· 2023· NSW Bureau of Crime StatisticsfavorableHigh precedentreport
Youth Justice Conferencing Evaluation (NSW BOCSAR 2023)
Effectiveness of youth justice conferencing vs court
conferencingdiversionnswreoffending - Australia (National)· 2023· High Court of AustraliafavorableHigh precedent
NZYQ v Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs [2023] HCA 37
Whether indefinite immigration detention of a non-citizen who cannot be removed in the reasonably foreseeable future is within Commonwealth power.
refugeeasylumnon-refoulementimmigration detentionindefinite detention - United Kingdom· 2023· UK Supreme CourtfavorableHigh precedent
R (AAA (Syria) & ors) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2023] UKSC 42
Safety of Rwanda, third country removals; non-refoulement; systemic risks
asylumnon-refoulementrefugeesystemic-deficienciesthird-country-transfers - Northern Territory, Australia· 2023· NT Supreme CourtfavorableHigh precedent
Dylan Voller Settlement with NT Government (2023)
Compensation for mistreatment in Don Dale
compensationdon-dalentsettlement - New South Wales, Australia· 2022· Aboriginal Legal Service NSW/ACTfavorableHigh precedentreport
Custody Notification Service Evaluation (ALS NSW 2022)
Evaluating the only proven RCIADIC recommendation
cnsdeaths-in-custodynswrciadic - Western Australia, Australia· 2022· Independent EvaluationfavorableHigh precedent
Olabud Doogethu Justice Reinvestment (Halls Creek, WA)
Justice reinvestment in remote WA Aboriginal community
aboriginal-ledhalls-creekjustice-reinvestmentwa - Northern Territory, Australia· 2022· NT Court of Criminal AppealfavorableHigh precedent
Baker v The Queen (2022) NTCCA
Cultural considerations in youth sentencing
bugmycultural-factorsntsentencing - Council of Europe (ECtHR)· 2022· European Court of Human RightsfavorableHigh precedent
CASE OF H.F. AND OTHERS v. FRANCE (no. 24384/19)
Whether the French authorities’ refusal to allow the applicants, who are French nationals, to return to France violated their right not to be expelled from their own country under Article 3 of Protocol No. 4.
refugeeasylumnon-refoulementarticle 3article 4 prot 4 - Council of Europe (ECtHR)· 2021· European Court of Human RightsfavorableHigh precedent
CASE OF BIVOLARU AND MOLDOVAN v. FRANCE (no. 40324/16)
Whether the applicants were subjected to treatment that breaches the prohibition of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment.
refugeeasylumnon-refoulementarticle 3 - Australia (National)· 2021· High Court of AustraliafavorableHigh precedent
Voller v Northern Territory (2021) HCA
Duty of care for children in detention
don-daleduty-of-carehcastate-liability - Council of Europe (ECtHR)· 2021· European Court of Human RightsfavorableHigh precedent
CASE OF SAVRAN v. DENMARK (no. 57467/15)
Whether expelling the applicant to Turkey would breach the prohibition of torture or the right to private and family life.
refugeeasylumnon-refoulementarticle 3