---
title: "Representations to the DPP seeking charge resolution or withdrawal"
url: "https://ailawframework.com/precedents/criminal-law/charge-resolution-representations-letter"
type: "precedent"
site: "AI Law Framework"
id: "a20-charge-resolution-representations-letter"
area_id: "A20"
kind: "letter"
ai_level: "yellow"
version: 1
law_stated_as_at: "2026-10-17"
---

# Representations to the DPP seeking charge resolution or withdrawal

> Without prejudice letter to the NSW ODPP proposing withdrawal of charges or a plea to an alternative, structured around the ODPP charge resolution guidelines, with client authority recorded.

Canonical page: https://ailawframework.com/precedents/criminal-law/charge-resolution-representations-letter  
Law stated as at: 2026-10-17

Site index for agents: https://ailawframework.com/llms.txt

## Key facts

- Kind: Letter. A letter or email you adapt and send.
- Practice area: [Criminal Law](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/criminal-law.md)
- Jurisdictions: New South Wales
- AI level: Yellow. AI can help in set ways. A lawyer checks specific points before use.
- Law stated as at: 2026-10-17
- Status: Maintained. Checked on 2026-10-17 against the 4 authorities it cites, for New South Wales.

## When to use it

Use for written representations before or at a case conference, or later in the proceedings, once the client has given written instructions. For summary matters prosecuted by police, adapt the addressee and drop the case conference references.

## How AI may be used

AI may help assemble the evidential analysis from the permitted brief in a firm-approved tool. The offer itself, and anything that could be an admission, comes only from the client's written instructions and is settled by the lawyer.

**AI may:**

- Draft the evidential weaknesses section from the lawyer's brief analysis, with brief page references.
- Check the letter against the ODPP chapter 4 factors and flag any factor not addressed.
- Compare the proposed agreed facts with the police facts and list differences.

**AI must not:**

- Must not receive the client's instructions or admissions in any consumer or public AI tool.
- Must not add facts, concessions or admissions that the client has not approved in writing.
- Must not send or file anything; the lawyer sends the letter.

**The lawyer checks:**

- Written client authority for the offer is on file and matches the letter exactly.
- Every statement about the evidence is checked against the brief.
- The proposed agreed facts do not distort the facts or invite sentence for a more serious offence (ODPP guideline 4.4).

## Authorities

- [NSW ODPP Prosecution Guidelines, Chapter 4 (Charge resolution), paras 4.3–4.5](https://www.odpp.nsw.gov.au/prosecution-guidance/prosecution-guidelines/chapter-4)
- [Criminal Procedure Act 1986 (NSW) ss 66, 70–79 (charge certificates and case conferences)](https://legislation.nsw.gov.au/view/html/inforce/current/act-1986-209#sec.70)
- [Crimes (Sentencing Procedure) Act 1999 (NSW) s 35A (consultation with victim and police on charge negotiations)](https://legislation.nsw.gov.au/view/html/inforce/current/act-1999-092#sec.35A)
- [Crimes (Sentencing Procedure) Act 1999 (NSW) s 25E (discount where an offer to plead to a different offence was refused)](https://legislation.nsw.gov.au/view/html/inforce/current/act-1999-092#sec.25E)

## Official form

[Official form](https://www.odpp.nsw.gov.au/prosecution-guidance/prosecution-guidelines/chapter-4)

## Full text and drafting notes

The full text and the drafting notes are not part of this public page. Signed-in firm accounts can read them at https://ailawframework.com/precedents/criminal-law/charge-resolution-representations-letter and through the signed-in MCP connector https://ailawframework.com/mcp/firm.

*Practice guidance for planning and review. Confirm current primary sources and the requirements of the actual matter. This is general information, not legal advice.*