Can a Diabetic Episode be a Legal Defence? Automatism in NSW
It has been reported that the driver of a vehicle which ploughed through a roadside beer garden in regional Victoria last week, killing five people, may have been experiencing a diabetic episode. The effects of diabetes can give rise to...
Food Delivery Riders Face Fines for Not Wearing High-Visibility Vests
It seems that as each year goes by, more and more rules come into effect regulating our everyday lives, ostensibly for our own protection but increasingly making it harder to go about our business without finding ourselves in the wrong...
Predatory Driving in New South Wales: Law, Defences and Penalties
A New South Wales man has been arrested and charged with several criminal and major traffic offences after allegedly ramming a police car while attempting to avoid arrest over suspicions of sexually touching another person without consent. Police say they...
The Legal Defence of Automatism in New South Wales
Last year, Brendon Paul Lidgard was found not-guilty of one count of dangerous driving occasioning death and three counts of dangerous driving occasioning grievous bodily harm inn the NSW District Court. The charges arose after Lidgard overdosed on his insulin...
The Offence of Driver Not Having Proper Control of Vehicle in NSW
Police in Slovakia had to look twice when they spotted a car going over the speed limit - the speed camera photo showed a Golden Retriever behind the wheel! The motorist later claimed the dog jumped into his lap moments...
‘Safe Drivers’ Will Have One Demerit Point Deleted, Under NSW Government Scheme
A new initiative by the New South Wales Government means that unrestricted and professional driver licence holders who incur no further demerit points for a year from 17 January 2023 will ‘get back’ one point. The scheme was scheduled to...
Traffic Offender Programs in New South Wales
Traffic Offender Programs in New South Wales (TOPs) are education programs that are generally undertaken by drivers who have been charged with a ‘major traffic offence’ such as driving with a prescribed concentration of alcohol (or drink driving) or driving...
Your Guide To New South Wales LSD (‘Acid’) Laws
Lysergic acid diethylamide, which is also known as LSD or ‘acid’, was the ultimate psychedelic of 1960s counterculture, epitomising the credo of “turn on, tune in, drop out”. However, supplying or even possessing the drug in New South Wales could...
Your Guide To New South Wales MDMA (‘Ecstacy’) Laws
The substance known scientifically as 3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine is commonly known as MDMA or ‘ecstasy’. The drug has been around for decades, and remains a popular party drug, particularly amongst young adults. According to the latest national statistics 12.5% of Australians have...
The Offence of Causing Grievous Bodily Harm By Misconduct in New South Wales
A man has been charged over a high-speed crash that killed two young boys and left a young girl with serious injuries in Sydney’s south last Friday night. Friday night along The Grand Parade in Monterey. According to police, at...
