A bail application may be refused under s 22 of the Bail Act 1992 (ACT) where the proposed supervisor is unable to effectively superintend compliance due to their own health issues, where the applicant has significant drug and mental health concerns identified in a DASL report, and where the likelihood of a sentence of imprisonment is high. Residence outside the ACT may both assist (by removing the applicant from problematic social networks) and hinder (by making monitoring by ACT authorities difficult) a bail application.
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