Here are some of our recent criminal cases. Names have been omitted for confidentiality reasons.
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AVO Thrown Out of Court and Police Ordered to Pay Our Client’s Legal Costs
Our client is a 51 year old man who owns a terrace style house in Surry Hills. His neighbour (the ‘protected person’) is a 52 year female owner of a converted warehouse residence that has been under renovations for some...
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Drug Charges Thrown Out of Court
Our 26 year old client was charged with supplying 2.4 grams of cocaine, and a ‘backup’ charge of drug possession, after police located drugs and drug paraphernalia including electronic scales and resealable bags in a kitchen cupboard at his one-bedroom...
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Successful District Court Appeal Keeps Client Out of Prison
A 53 year old man from Canley Vale called our firm after he was convicted and sentenced to 1 year and 3 months prison in Liverpool Local Court when represented by another criminal law firm. He had pleaded ‘not guilty’...
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Client found Not Guilty of Recklessly Causing Grievous Bodily Harm
A distressed young man contacted us on Saturday afternoon advising that his current lawyer was suddenly unavailable for his defended hearing which was listed in court for the following Tuesday, three days later. He was all the more concerned because...
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Good Behaviour Bond for Using Pistol on Security Staff at Hotel
Our client is a serving member of the Australian armed forces. He attended Sydney Olympic Park with a group of friends at around 11am to watch a sporting event, and drank several beers over the course of the day. The...
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Client Avoids Conviction After Assaulting Bus Driver
Our client was charged with ‘Assault Occasioning Actual Bodily Harm’ after wrestling a bus driver to the ground and then striking him to the stomach, legs and arms causing bruising and abrasions. The incident occurred way back on 8th October...
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Not Guilty of Affray and Common Assault
The Magistrate has found our 27 year old client ‘not guilty’ of Affray and Common Assault after a full-day hearing in Downing Centre Local Court. Our client is a serving officer of the Australian Defence Force and was a member of...
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Conviction Appeal Successful for Client who was on a Suspended Sentence
The Presiding Judge in Downing Centre District Court has overturned the Local Court’s guilty verdict against our 34 year old client who under a ‘suspended sentence’. Our client pleaded guilty to Robbery In Company late last year and was placed...
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Client avoids Criminal Record after Assaulting a Security Guard
The Magistrate in Downing Centre Local Court was persuaded not to record a criminal conviction against our 29 year old client who punched a security guard several times to the face causing bruising and swelling. Our client and his friend...
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Assault Charges & AVO (domestic violence related) Dropped
Police have withdrawn the charge of Reckless Wounding and AVO (domestic violence related) against our 26 year old client after our defence team prepared two detailed sets of written submissions requesting withdrawal and pushed relentlessly for the case to be...
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