NSW premier Chris Minns says his government will push to make it easier to hold 10-13-year-olds criminally responsible after they tabled changes to youth crime laws in Parliament on Tuesday 18 November.
The reform would require courts to weigh what a child has done, and the circumstances around an offence, when considering if they know what they did was seriously morally wrong.
Under the legal concept of doli incapax, children within the age range have been presumed not to have the capacity to be criminally responsible…