Retired Supreme Court Judge the Hon Brian Martin AO QC was appointed by the Government of South Australia to review the sentencing discounts given for guilty pleas and cooperation with authorities.

Mr Martin sought the views of victims of crime, experts in the field and members of the legal sector.

Read the review

Review of the Sentence Reduction Scheme (PDF 7MB)

Persons and organisations invited to provide a submission (other than victims) - Annexure 1 (PDF 50KB)

2015 Review of the Sentence Reduction Scheme - Annexure 2 (PDF 4.7MB)

Written submissions (other than members of the public) - Annexure 3 (PDF 3.5MB)

Tasmania Consultation Paper - Annexure 4 (PDF 6.7MB)

Justice Policy and Analytics, Policy and Community Division Report – Stage 1 - Annexure 5 (PDF 2.7MB)

Justice Policy and Analytics, Policy and Community Division Report – Stage 2 - Annexure 6 (PDF 2.6MB)

List of Recommendations - Annexure 7 (PDF 197KB)

Addendum to final report (PDF 194KB)

Annexure to addendum report - Sentencing Reductions Review - Stage 3 -  Analysis of Supreme Court statistics (PDF 1.2MB)

Media releases

Have YourSAy on sentencing discounts (6 October 2018)

Discounts for early guilty pleas to be reviewed (18 September 2018)