The territory's top prosecutor wants specific laws to target the use of cameras in sexual offences after charges were dropped against a man accused of using his mobile phone to remotely film a woman bathing in a shared dormitory.
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And the Director of Public Prosecutions, Jon White, also used his office's annual report to highlight the case for harsher dangerous-driving penalties to better punish recidivist offenders.
Mr White said his office had recorded an increase in sexual offences involving cameras during the 2012-13 financial year.
But Mr White said his office had trouble prosecuting the matters because the territory, unlike other jurisdictions, lacked legislation "aimed at the use of cameras to record or broadcast sexual activity without the consent of the person being filmed".
In one case, a magistrate dismissed an indecency charge against a Pakistani cadet accused of trying to secretly film a woman having a shower at the Australian Defence Force Academy because he was not convinced that the charge was appropriate.
"While we are able to utilise existing legislation, it may be worth considering legislation specifically targeted at these sorts of offences," Mr White wrote.
Mr White also raised the importance of strengthening the maximum penalty for dangerous-driving charges, to support recent increases for culpable-driving offences.
In 2011, the ACT government increased the maximum penalty for culpable driving causing death from seven to 14 years' jail.
The jail term for culpable driving causing grievous bodily harm was also lengthened, from four years to 10 years behind bars.
Repeat car thief Justin Monfries was first to be sentenced under the tougher regime after killing mother-of-two Linda Cox as she crossed the road outside the Canberra Hospital last year. In June, an ACT Supreme Court judge jailed Monfries for 10 years and nine months.
But Mr White said the tragedy was compounded by the fact that Monfries had been before the courts for dangerous driving on three previous occasions.
During one incident, on a weekday at 3.20pm in the inner north of Canberra, Monfries drove a stolen car through stop signs and on the wrong side of the road at speeds of 130km/h.
"In all three previous incidents police and the public had been put in danger and it was a matter of good fortune that no one had been killed or seriously injured," Mr White wrote. "The maximum penalty for dangerous driving in the ACT is 12 months' imprisonment.
"Other jurisdictions have considerably higher penalties for this sort of driving committed in aggravating circumstances."
