Does AVL affect likelihood of bail?
February 8, 2021
New study into the impact of audio-visual link on being granted bail
Min-Taec Kim of the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research has studied and aims to estimate the causal impact (if any) of appearing via AVL on a bail application as opposed to in person.
Pre COVID-19 it was commonplace to appear in person on bail applications. The new trend in criminal cases in NSW is for bail applicants who have been refused bail in the Local Court to appear via AVL.
This is the first study of it's kind and in summary it outlines that there is no evidence for a meaningful disadvantage to appearing via AVL on whether the defendant is granted bail. It goes on to find that there is no evidence that appearing via AVL causes defendants of specific subgroups such as by gender or Aboriginality to be less likely to be granted bail.
Read the summary or full report at the BOSCAR website using the following LINK.
