Bidner [2023] NSWSC 880

• Offender’s case included three chapters from the “Bar Book Project” – “Childhood Exposure to Domestic and Family Violence”, “Incarceration of a Parent or Caregiver”, and “Early Exposure to Alcohol and other Drug Abuse”: at [56]

[60] The offender tendered a large volume of material in his case, including whole chapters of a publication. The text extracts are generic and of little real assistance, unless information in them can be directly tied by evidence to the offender’s situation. In the offender’s case, making that link depends largely upon acceptance of the offender’s untested and unsworn, and frequently contradictory, account of his own circumstances.

• Found offender unreliable historian and evidence of background contradictory