addition, a range of legislative amendments has led to increased pressures on judicial officers and court listings. An increase in the numbers of judicial monitoring conditions imposed will of course mean an increase in the number of judicial monitoring hearings. In order to support the increased use of judicial monitoring, there will need to be increased resources provided to courts, to meet the demand for expedited listings and the increased numbers of judicial monitoring hearings. The investment will need to apply to both the summary and the indictable streams of the courts. Several stakeholders noted that any amendments to sentencing family violence offenders would need to be supported by sufficient resource investment. For example, inTouch Multicultural Centre Against Family Violence observed that there are already existing shortages of interpreters, posing challenges for fast tracking matters involving culturally and linguistically diverse clients. This is also relevant to an increased use of judicial monitoring. Further funding of interpreting services will be necessary to support the increased use of judicial monitoring for culturally and linguistically diverse family violence offenders. Increasing the use of judicial monitoring will also have an effect on courts, requiring judicial officers to undertake a larger number of judicial monitoring hearings in addition to their regular caseload. The use of court-ordered Corrections Victoria directed judicial monitoring hearings may also contribute to an increase in the number of judicial monitoring hearings that will need to be listed within expedited timeframes. In addition to the courts, the following agencies and organisations will require additional resources to respond to an increase in the use of judicial monitoring: Corrections Victoria (who will need to appear at the judicial monitoring hearings); Victoria Legal Aid (who do not routinely provide offenders with representation at judicial monitoring hearings, but note that the
addition, a range of legislative amendments has led to increased pressures on judicial officers and court listings. An increase in the numbers of judicial monitoring conditions imposed will of course mean an increase in the number of judicial monitoring hearings. In order to support the increased use of judicial monitoring, there will need to be increased resources provided to courts, to meet the demand for expedited listings and the increased numbers of judicial monitoring hearings. The investment will need to apply to both the summary and the indictable streams of the courts. Several stakeholders noted that any amendments to sentencing family violence offenders would need to be supported by sufficient resource investment. For example, inTouch Multicultural Centre Against Family Violence observed that there are already existing shortages of interpreters, posing challenges for fast tracking matters involving culturally and linguistically diverse clients. This is also relevant to an increased use of judicial monitoring. Further funding of interpreting services will be necessary to support the increased use of judicial monitoring for culturally and linguistically diverse family violence offenders. Increasing the use of judicial monitoring will also have an effect on courts, requiring judicial officers to undertake a larger number of judicial monitoring hearings in addition to their regular caseload. The use of court-ordered Corrections Victoria directed judicial monitoring hearings may also contribute to an increase in the number of judicial monitoring hearings that will need to be listed within expedited timeframes. In addition to the courts, the following agencies and organisations will require additional resources to respond to an increase in the use of judicial monitoring: Corrections Victoria (who will need to appear at the judicial monitoring hearings); Victoria Legal Aid (who do not routinely provide offenders with representation at judicial monitoring hearings, but note that the
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