Hi - sorry, I just have a few concerns with this.
Firstly, it's unclear whether you're talking about a Legal Aid scheme, a County Court list, or the division of the DPP. You speak of people "falling victim to" sex crimes, but Legal Aid gives legal advice to defendants - and they're perpetrators, not victims. I'm aware of an 'SSOU', but that's a specialist division inside the DPP: the prosecution.
If the specialist prosecution is the thing you mean, I'm concerned it might be too narrow a change, but - more importantly - it's been around since 2007 so it's too old anyway.
Also, beware making bold statements such as legal aid being freed up for other people. Because money for schemes still comes out of the budget - unless there's a special extra funding or endowment. So it's using money, not freeing up money.
Thanks for alerting me to this, it got 2/2 in sacs marked by 2 teachers who were both examiners from the legal exam so i assumed it wouldve been ok, ill have to check with them too get another recent change.
I think the argument is for it would be *not taking into account 2007 which makes reasoning it in vain haha
1. SSOU created/ through division of the OPP after sex victims were not getting fair representation
with the aim to "prepare all indictable sexual offence prosecutions in the western region of Victoria." and "give greater support to witnesses and victims"
2. Now victims of sexual crimes can now get legal advice and help prosecuting their case
3. This then lowers the strain on legal aid as previously 43% of all county court indictable offence victims now do not use their service and allows perpetrators and victims of other crimes to have a greater chance of getting access to legal aid
4. SSOU funded through the OPP
5. This allows more people to use their service(legal aid) as legal aid has the same funding with less people to help (330 million, $7.5/ capita)
6. Allows for effective access as people who could previously not use legal aid due to the high volumes of people now have access to these services.