Rudy Frugtniet v ASIC: Things to consider if Victoria introduces a spent convictions regime (with 'A Message to You, Rudy'). (December 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: O'Toole, Suzanne; Keyzer, Patrick
• Is Part Of: Alternative law journal. Volume 44:Number 4(2019)
• Page Start: 260
• Page End: 266
• Publication Date: 2019-12
• Subjects: Administrative law -- criminal justice -- discrimination -- employment law -- High Court -- legislation; Law -- Australia -- Periodicals; Law -- Social aspects -- Australia -- Periodicals; Law reform -- Australia -- Periodicals; 349.94
• DOI: 10.1177/1037969X19877034
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1037-969X

Abstract

The Legal and Social Issues Committee of the Victorian parliament will soon publish a report on spent convictions and criminal record discrimination. Victoria is the only state in Australia that does not have a spent convictions scheme. The purpose of this article is to review the recent decision of the High Court in Frugtniet v ASIC, a decision about the federal spent convictions scheme, and outline the lessons that decision provides for Victoria and for the successful appellant in that case.