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The NSW Government has introduced sweeping reforms to sexual assault trial procedures, fundamentally altering how complainants are questioned, how their evidence is recorded, and what access defence lawyers have to counselling records. These changes represent the most significant overhaul of adult sexual assault prosecutions in years, but raise critical questions about whether they appropriately balance victim protection against the fundamental rights of the accused.

Intoxication may be used as a defence to a criminal charge in NSW for specific-intent offences, such as murder.