The Criminal Offence of Sexual Touching Without Consent
It has been reported that Tim Mathieson, who is the ex-partner of former Australia prime minister Julia Gillard, will plead guilty in Melbourne Magistrates’ Court to intentionally sexually touching a woman without her consent in Melbourne’s CBD on 13 March...
The Offence of Using a Carriage Service to Procure a Child Under 16 for Sexual Activity
The deputy principal at a high school in Sydney’s south-west has been sentenced to more than three and a half years behind bars for sexting who he believed to be a 14-year old girl. Damian Wanstall’s LinkedIn profile hasn’t been...
UK Proposes Legal Defence for Domestic Violence Victims Who Harm or Kill Their Partners
The United Kingdom is considering sentencing reforms which would provide a legal defence to victims of domestic violence who harm or kill their perpetrators after being subjected to sustained abuse. UK review The proposal comes in the wake of an...
Drug Driving Offences: Queensland Adds Cocaine to the List of Drugs Tested
Cocaine has been added to the list of drugs that will now be detected by roadside drug tests in Queensland. The addition of cocaine brings Queensland in line with New South Wales - with cocaine being part of Mobile Drug...
The Offence of Engaging in Unqualified Legal Practice in Australia
A retired Qantas pilot has been fined $4,500 and placed on a one-year good behaviour bond in the Downing Centre local court for pretending to be a lawyer. 55-year old Nathaniel Whitehall flew planes for more than 20 years and...
Domestic Violence Blitz Raises Questions Regarding Lawfulness of Arrests
The New South Wales Police Force is boasting about the arrest of nearly 600 people during this week’s four-day operation targeting ‘domestic violence offences’. And as usual, the mainstream media is right behind them, labelling those arrested as ‘predators’ and...
The Law, Defences and Penalties for Robbery While Armed with a Dangerous Weapon in NSW
A man has been charged with a string of offences over a spate of alleged armed robberies in Northern New South Wales. According to police, one of the incidents over which 41-year old John Cole was charged involved him breaking...
Ben Roberts-Smith Appeals Being Branded a War Criminal
Ben Roberts-Smith’s legal team has filed an appeal against the findings of the Federal Court which determined that he was not defamed by the The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and The Canberra Times, who accused him of committing international war...
UK Court Rules Suicide of Domestic Violence Victim an ‘Unlawful Killing’
A Coroner’s Court in the United Kingdom has determined that a woman who took her own life after domestic abuse, was ‘unlawfully killed.’ A previous inquest ruled the cause of Kellie Sutton’s death was suicide, after she was found unconscious...
Robodebt Commission Recommends Criminal Charges Against Those Responsible
Robodebt was a scheme engineered and implemented by senior federal politicians and bureaucrats to illegally extort money from thousands of the most vulnerable members of our society, leading many into depression and driving some to suicide. In 2019, the Federal...
