Arguments Over Games Escalate to Physical Violence
24-year old Manly Sea Eagles Rugby League star Dylan Walker is facing Manly Local Court today charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm and common assault against his fiancée of the same age, Alexandra Ivkovic, last Thursday evening. Emergency services...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 3 to 9 December 2018
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Woman Commences Private Prosecution After Police Refuse to Charge her Alleged Attacker A woman has launched a private criminal prosecution after police refused to bring...
Sexting Amongst Consenting Teens is Now Legal
A range of new laws have been introduced in the wake of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. Amongst them, are laws which repeal the criminalisation of teens of similar age who engage in consensual ‘sexting’. What...
High Court Refuses to Hide Disgraceful Conduct of Barrister and Police
The Victorian Government has called for a Royal Commission into the underworld lawyer scandal that has jeopardised at least 22 convictions and possibly hundreds, potentially affecting some of the state’s most serious cases. Police fight to suppress information Victorian Police...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 26 November to 2 December 2018
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Teacher Pleads Guilty to Persistent Sexual Abuse of Student The court heard the teacher exploited her teenage student’s ‘caring nature’, ‘stole his innocence’ and left...
Teacher Pleads Guilty to Persistent Sexual Abuse of Student
We recently reported on the female school teacher in Armidale, New South Wales who avoided a prison sentence despite pleading guilty to 3 counts of aggravated sexual assault and 6 of sexual intercourse with child under her care while employed at the...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 19 to 25 November 2018
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Political Prejudice Shapes Perceptions of Crime The political climate of a person’s late teens and early twenties shapes their perceptions of crime and criminals for...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 12 to 18 November 2018
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Police Officer Who Endangered Victim Refuses to Testify An officer who leaked a domestic violence victim’s address to his ‘mate’ - the woman’s abusive ex-partner...
Political Prejudice Shapes Perceptions of Crime
The political period in which you ‘came of age’ drastically influences your perception of crime decades later, according to a new study in the British Journal of Criminology. While many people alter their perception of crime over time, they are...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 5 to 11 November 2018
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Only Half of the Serious Injuries on Our Roads are Recorded The NSW government has been allocating funds for roads based on inaccurate data, neglecting...
