Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 19 to 25 June 2023
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Should Politicians Be Permitted to Accuse Others of Crimes With Impunity Under Parliamentary Privilege? A senator used the protection of parliamentary privilege to accuse another...
Should Politicians Be Permitted to Accuse Others of Crimes With Impunity Under Parliamentary Privilege?
Senator David Van may not have been well known before last week. But he is now a household name after Senator Lidia Thorpe accused him last week of sexual assaulting her in parliament, under the protection of parliamentary privilege. During...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 12 to 18 June 2023
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: UK Rejects Assange’s Appeal Against Extradition, Despite Global Campaign for Freedom The court rejected his appeal against extradition, despite mounting calls for his freedom and...
Can Anyone Own a Poker Machine in New South Wales?
So, you’re setting up your man cave with your bar, pool table, arcade machine and big screen TV to watch the footy - and wouldn’t mind a second-hand poker machine to add to your nirvana. Or, you may be reminiscing...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 5 to 11 June 2023
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: High Range Drink Driving in NSW: The Law, Penalties and Defences Police charged 79 people with drink driving during a two-day blitz in south-west Sydney....
Higgins, Wilkinson, Lehrmann: Heroes or Victims?
In years to come, the criminal prosecution of Bruce Lehrmann over ultimately unproven allegations of sexual assault in Parliament House is likely to become a case study for students of law, and may even inform the way in which such...
High Range Drink Driving in NSW: The Law, Penalties and Defences
Police say they have charged dozens of with drink driving offences over the weekend during a two-day traffic blitz in Sydney’s south-west. According to police, Operation Fume was established to target traffic offences on the M5 and Hume Highway between...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 29 May to 4 June 2023
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Truck Driver Found Not Guilty of Attempting to Possess 400kg of Unlawfully Imported Cocaine The prosecution was unable to prove he knew or was reckless...
Bruce Lehrmann Settles Defamation Case Against News Life Media
A company owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, News Life Media, has agreed to pay some of the legal costs of the man formerly accused of sexually assaulting Brittany Higgins in parliament, after the Bruce Lehrmann agreed to discontinue his...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 22 to 28 May 2023
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Karen Webb’s Cop Out: Police Commissioner Won’t Watch Tasering of Elderly Woman The NSW Police Commissioner refuses to watch footage of her officers tasering a...
