How Traffic Lawyers in Sydney Can Help Get Your Licence Back
Losing your driving licence can have a serious impact on your employment prospects and lifestyle. If you have had your licence suspended, or you have been disqualified from driving, it is possible in some circumstances to appeal and successfully get...
Is it Possible to Get an AVO Dismissed?
Apprehended Violence Orders, or AVOs, are a type of court order that is designed to protect people from becoming victims of violence. An AVO can be taken out by the police, or by an individual, if it is believed that...
Sentencing Sex Offenders
The sentencing laws around sex offences are complicated, and the severity of a sentence depends on a range of factors including the nature of the offence, steps towards rehabilitation and whether the person who committed it is believed to be...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® – the criminal lawyers others follow
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® commenced practice in 2001. Since that time, we have introduced a range of innovations to make our firm more transparent, accessible and accountable than other criminal law firms. Perhaps the most significant (and controversial) of those was...
Section 308H of the Crimes Act: Computer Hacking and High-Tech Offences
Computer crime is a broad area of law that covers a number of different high-tech criminal activities, including computer fraud, unauthorised access to information, and hacking. Computer crime does not just cover offences carried out using a computer: tablets and...
What should you do if you’re caught drink driving?
Our video and blog post below talks about what should you do if you’re caught drink driving. Drink driving is a serious traffic offence. If you are caught drink driving you can face harsh penalties, depending on the amount of...
What is the Inclosed Lands Protection Act?
Have you been charged with an offence under the Inclosed Lands Protection Act? The Act is designed to prevent trespassing, and you can be charged under this act if you have been found to be unlawfully on ‘inclosed land’ or...
How the Innocence Project is Helping Those Wrongly Convicted of a Crime
A couple of decades ago, if someone was wrongly convicted of a crime there was little that could be done once the appeals process had been exhausted. Now, with more sophisticated forms of technology such as DNA testing to help...
What Happens During Arraignment? NSW Court Process in the Spotlight
Have you been charged with a serious criminal offence? Although most criminal cases can be finalised in the Local court, more serious cases which are called ‘indictable offences’ can proceed to the District or Supreme Court. There are 4 general...
What is a Good Behaviour Bond? NSW Penalty Explained
Our video and blog post below explains a good behaviour bond in NSW. On 24 September 2018, conditional release orders replaced good behaviour bonds under section 10(1)(b) of the Crimes (Sentencing Procedure) Act 1999. Any good behaviour bonds in force...
