If you are looking for a criminal or traffic lawyer to represent you in Manly Local Court, contact us anytime on (02) 9261 8881 to arrange a free consultation with an experienced defence lawyer with a proven track record of consistently producing exceptional outcomes in cases heard in the courthouse.
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Our Manly lawyers have extensive experience representing clients for criminal and traffic offences.
Criminal Lawyers in Manly
If you need to attend a local court in Manly or the surrounding areas, our expert local lawyers can assist you with a range of criminal law offences. These include, but are not limited to, offensive language or conduct, drug possession, intentional or reckless damage or destruction of property, common assault, sexual assault and touching, fraud, robbery, and many other offences.
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Traffic Lawyers in Manly
If you have been accused of a traffic offence and need to find a traffic offence lawyer to represent you in and around Manly, it’s important to seek a lawyer with expert local knowledge and a proven track record. Sydney Criminal Lawyers in Manly can assist you with a range of traffic offences, including drink driving, drug driving, negligent driving, speeding offences, red light camera offences, and many more.
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Find a lawyer in Manly
Our specialist lawyers regularly represent clients for a wide range of criminal law and driving offences that come before Manly Local Court, including less serious cases, such as:
- Traffic offences such as drink or drug driving, driving whilst suspended or disqualified, negligent driving, reckless driving and driver licence appeals,
- Offensive language or conduct,
- Drug possession,
- Intentional or reckless damage or destruction of property,
- Common assault,
- Apprehended Violence Orders (AVOs),
- Larceny and other stealing offences,
- Sexual act, and
- Sexual touching,
Through to more serious cases, such as:
- Fraud, embezzlement, larceny by clerk or servant, tax evasion and other offences of dishonesty,
- Break and enter, robbery and kidnapping,
- Money laundering and participating in a criminal group,
- Aggravated sexual act or aggravated sexual touching,
- Public order offences such as affray and riot,
- Assault occasioning actual bodily harm or recklessly or intentionally causing grievous bodily harm,
- Dangerous driving occasioning grievous bodily harm or death,
- Offences against public justice such as perverting the course of justice, perjury and false accusations,
- Sexual assault and aggravated sexual assault,
- Marketable or commercial drug cases including manufacture or production, cultivation, supply and importation,
- Terrorism, and
- Manslaughter and murder.
Manly Local Court
Manly Local Court is located at 2 Belgrave Street, Manly, which is about 300 metres around the corner from the southern end of The Corso, and approximately 200 metres from the Manly Wharf.
Manly Court House was first opened in 1924 as a grand, single-storey brick building with sandstone detailing. It was designed by Government Architect George McRae in the fashion of the Interwar Classical Revival.
The original facade of 5 arches forming a (now-enclosed) cloister lifts a classically-featured gable. 1960s wing additions in an unornate, utilitarian style reduce the grandeur of the original building, and form the boundaries of the 1980s stepped entry and terrace.
Similar necessary but unsympathetic alterations have been made to the interior. The final result has been harshly summarised by the Dicitonary of Sydney: “[h]aphazard and successive renovations with no clear master plan strategy have destroyed the clarity of McRae’s original design.”
The courthouse looks across to the fig trees and lawns of Gilbert Park, over Belgrave Street.
Wide steps and a disabled entry ramp lead up to the front terrace, Inside is a seating area with conference room, a registry office and two courtrooms. Courtroom 1 retains many of the original features and grand proportions, while courtroom 2 is much more modest and modern.
Both of the courtrooms are local courts, which means they deal with ‘summary cases’ (those which are finalised in the local court) and the early stages of ‘indictable’ and ‘strictly indictable cases’ (which are more serious cases that can be referred to a higher court, or in the case of strictly indictable cases, must be referred to a higher court).
The courthouse services not just Manly, but also the surrounding suburbs of Sydney’s Northern Beaches and Lower North Shore.
There is off-street parking behind Manly Court House at Whistler Car Park on Whistler Street, which has 2 hours free parking.
Here is also 2-hour limited street parking on West Promenade (across Gilbert Park) and other surrounding streets, but this is often full.
Location of Manly Local Court
PHONE:
1300 679 272
FAX:
(02) 9934 4545
EMAIL:
local-court-manly@justice.nsw.gov.au
ADDRESS:
2 Belgrave Street
MANLY NSW 2095
POSTAL ADDRESS:
PO BOX 125
MANLY NSW 1655
More information on Manly
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