Going Out on Your Own as a Criminal Defence Lawyer
Our Video and Blog post below gives tips on how to setup a criminal defence firm. I started the criminal law firm ‘Nedim Lawyers – Criminal Defence Specialists’ in 2001 after being admitted as a lawyer in 1998. I was...
Telling the Truth in Court: Penalties under the Crimes Act for Perjury
If you are involved in a judicial proceeding, whether as the defendant or a witness, you will be required to take an oath promising to tell the truth. If it is later discovered that you did not tell the truth,...
Which Court is the Best Choice: Local Court, or Higher Court?
Our video and blog post below discusses the question: Which Court is the Best Choice: Local Court, or Higher Court? The NSW court system is comprised of three separate courts, the local court, the district court, and the supreme court....
What are the Advantages and Disadvantages of a Jury Trial?
If you go to court in NSW, you will either be tried in a local court by a magistrate, or in the district or supreme court by a judge and jury. In some cases, you may be tried in the...
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 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...
