No Suspension for Traffic Offence While Being on Good Behaviour Licence
Our client is a 48-year-old truck driver from Edgecliff. He came to us with a lengthy traffic record including 3 prior drink driving offences and a number of speeding offences. He was also on a good behaviour licence. While on...
No Conviction for Resist Officer, Behave in Offensive Manner and Remain in Premises
Our client is a 36-year-old sales executive from Sydney’s Lower North Shore. He had been drinking at a bar in Oxford Street following a work Christmas party. He left and then attempted to re-enter the premises, but was denied entry...
The Muldrock Error is a Winner for Some
Two convicted killers have recently had their sentences cut on appeal, using the so-called Muldrock error as grounds. Both Yusuf Aytugrul and William Matheson claimed Muldrock error, and were successful in getting time off their non-parole periods and maximum sentences....
Terrorism Suspects to Have Their Citizenship Revoked
Politicians and media outlets regularly tell us that terrorism is the greatest threat to our Australian values and lifestyle - despite the fact that terrorist attacks occur relatively infrequently compared with other criminal offences. Nevertheless, suggestions that we are at...
Police Mishandling of the Bowraville Murders
Over a period of five months between 1990 and 1991, three Aboriginal children disappeared from the same street in a housing mission near the NSW town of Bowraville. The bodies of 16-year-old Clinton Speedy Duroux and four-year-old Evelyn Greenup were...
The US Winds Back Mass Surveillance Laws
People living in the United States are said to be some of the most watched on the planet, with the National Security Agency (NSA) ramping up mass surveillance following the events of September 11, 2001. The nation’s willingness to monitor...
Video Evidence in Domestic Violence Cases
A controversial new law has recently come into force allowing complainants in domestic violence cases to make recorded audio-visual statements, rather than written statements. The new laws allow for video footage obtained by police following an alleged domestic violence incident...
Human Rights Abuses on Nauru
Nauru: It’s the world’s smallest island nation, but it’s been making headlines in Australia of late. The island is the site of an Australian-run detention centre, which houses approximately 1000 asylum seekers in tent-like facilities. Conditions at the centre have...
The ‘Gay Panic Defence’
Have you ever heard of the ‘homosexual advance defence’ or ‘gay panic defence’? How would you respond if you are a straight person and someone of the same gender made sexual advances towards you? There is obviously a difference between...
Should Wrongly Convicted People be Compensated?
Imagine that you’re wrongly convicted of a crime and sentenced to a term of imprisonment. After spending months, or even years, protesting your innocence while going through court proceedings, the prospect of being found guilty of a crime you did...
