Gambling Addiction and Crime
Gambling has been a form of popular entertainment in Australia from earliest colonial days right up to the present day, with Australians spending billions of dollars on various forms of gambling each year. Unfortunately, gambling can get addictive and lead...
Should Shop Owners Take the Law into their Own Hands?
Shoplifting is serious problem for a large number of businesses, and many store owners have become frustrated with what they see as a lack of effective action on the part of the police and the courts. This has led some...
Illegal File-Sharing Club: The Implications of the iiNet Ruling
Have you ever illegally downloaded a movie, music file or software? If you’re among the estimated 29% of Australians who answered ‘yes’, you may be getting a nasty letter in the mail threatening legal action unless you pay the owners...
Are Penalties for Insider Trading Tough Enough?
The man behind Australia’s biggest case of insider trading has been sentenced to seven years and three months in prison. Lukas Kamay, 26, will serve a non-parole period of four years and six months after being sentenced in the Victorian...
Illegal Downloaders Could be Bullied into Paying Settlements
People who illegally downloaded the movie “Dallas Buyers Club” could face legal action if a bid to obtain the identification details of 4,762 people who downloaded the movie is successful. The owners of the movie have been embroiled in a...
Mastermind Behind Silk Road Convicted on All Charges
American web developer Ross Ulbricht was this week convicted on seven Federal charges, including trafficking drugs on the internet, computer hacking and money laundering. Following a three-week long trial, a jury found that the 30-year-old had planned, created and run...
Is It Still Stealing If You Believe You Are Entitled To Take It?
If you honestly believed that you were owed something, and you took it without the other person’s consent, are you guilty of stealing? Not necessarily, according to current law. The law says that person who is charged with an offence...
Police Blitz Targets over 100 Alleged Shoplifters in Sydney
When December rolls around each year, the stores are filled with people frantically trying to cross everything off their shopping lists before Christmas hits. But it’s also the time that, for whatever reason, shoplifters hit the shops in record numbers,...
Why Have Female Arrest Rates Increased in Recent Years?
According to the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOCSAR), adult female arrest rates are on the increase. The number of adult female persons of interest in criminal cases in NSW over the last decade has increased by an...
Are Illegal Aussie Downloaders in Trouble?
The price of movies, games and music in Australia is very high compared to many other western countries. Perhaps this is part of the reason that we have one of the highest rates of illegal downloading in the world. The...
