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The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
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Peter Brewer

Consistency in sentencing not the problem, says DPP

Shane Drumgold and fellow prosecutor Skye Jerome outside the ACT Law Courts. Picture by Karleen Minney

Law reform should be based on logic not emotion, the ACT's Director of Public Prosecutions told the ACT Assembly dangerous driving inquiry on Friday.

Shane Drumgold SC told the inquiry committee that any reforms should be handled cautiously in that may have "unintended ramifications" for the criminal justice system, as it "might capture that which it might not want to capture and ultimately there needs to be an assessment of how well it [the reform] would achieve what it is seeking to achieve".

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