Visiting Judges Program: Taking Indigenous experience into account in sentencing

It is now more than 30 years on from the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody and critical questions remain about the extent to which Indigenous experience could and should be taken into account in sentencing, and the ways in which this can be done.

In this program presented as part of the Visiting Judges Program, ANU College of Law Associate Professor Anthony Hopkins, who sits as a Special Magistrate in the ACT Galambany Circle Sentencing Court, speaks with Tom Gray KC, a retired Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia, to explore these questions by reference to his decision in R v Scobie [2003] SASC 85.