Original article by Michaela Whitbourn
The Sydney Morning Herald – Page: 8 : 6-Aug-14

New South Wales (NSW) District Court Chief Justice Reg Blanch will retire on 7 August 2014, as required to at age 72. He has criticised the NSW Government’s decision to roll out mandatory sentences for offences such as "one-punch kills". Blanch has been a criminal lawyer and served as the first director of public prosecutions in NSW, appointed in 1987. He is widely credited with improvements to the processes at the court during his time as judge, and will now be chair of the Serious Offenders Review Council advising the Parole Board

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DISTRICT COURT OF NEW SOUTH WALES, NEW SOUTH WALES. STATE PAROLE AUTHORITY, NEW SOUTH WALES. DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS, NEW SOUTH WALES. SERIOUS OFFENDERS REVIEW COUNCIL, AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY