Victorian Current Acts Victorian Current Acts(1) Subject to Division 1 of Part 9.2, a person who attends a pre-sentence group conference must not disclose any information given or statement made to the pre-sentence group conference unless the disclosure is authorised under subsection (2).
Penalty: 10 penalty units.
(2) A person may disclose information given or a statement made to a pre-sentence group conference if the disclosure is made in any of the following circumstances—
(a) with the leave of the Children's Court;
(b) with the consent of all of the attendees of the pre-sentence group conference;
(c) by the convenor for the purposes of making a record of the proceedings at the pre-sentence group conference;
(d) by the convenor for the purposes of preparing the group conference report for the Children's Court;
(e) in a discussion between a person who attended the pre-sentence group conference and the person's legal representative;
(f) in a discussion between the legal representatives of persons who attended the pre-sentence group conference;
(g) for any other prescribed purpose.