Newtown Local Court – December 2015Our client was a young labourer charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm of a taxi driver and failing to pay his cab fare. At hearing, we made the small win of challenging the prosecution’s application to correct a defect...
Downing Centre Local Court – November 2015Our client was a young woman charged with supplying 20 ecstasy pills after she was found in possession of a quantity drugs at a city train station. She pleaded guilty in the Local Court, and we were able to persuade the...
Downing Centre Local Court – November 2015Our client was a young Aboriginal man charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm of a neighbour and breaching an AVO by common assault of his ex-partner. His matter was referred to us on a grant from Legal Aid. The...
Sydney District Court – November 2015Our client was a middle-aged divorcee convicted of shoplifting in Hornsby Local Court after she stole a dress from a neighbouring stall in David Jones, where she was employed. On appeal to the District Court, we persuaded the judge...
Downing Centre Local Court – November 2015Our client was a single mother charged with mid-range drink driving. She was recovering from the flu and was facing a serious family situation at the time of the offence. Despite the high reading, our client’s clear...
Waverley Local Court – October 2015Our client was charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm after he bit his boyfriend during an argument following a drinking session. He was also put on a provisional AVO. The boyfriend wrote a character reference for our...
NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal, Administrative Decision – 2015We represented a former President of a Sydney chapter of an Outlaw Motorcycle Gang (OMCG) at the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal whose firearm licence was revoked by the Commissioner of NSW...
Blacktown Local CourtAs a member of the Legal Aid General Crime Panel, we were referred a case where a young woman was charged with reckless wounding following a domestic where she had stabbed her partner in the shoulder with a kitchen knife. She instructed us that...
We acted for a Sydney-based client who had been charged in Queensland for possessing counterfeit money and fraud after a work trip to the Gold Coast.The allegation was that our client had paid for items at a restaurant using counterfeit cash, the possession of such...
Our client came to us through a family member after he had been locked up in Liverpool Local Court for 16 months on non-parole for breaching an AVO and assaulting police. Each charge was on the low end of objective seriousness for the type of offending concerned.We...
We represented a legally aided client in our capacity as member of the General Criminal Law Panel of Legal Aid at the Downing Centre Local Court. He was charged with common assault and breach of an AVO, the complainant being the mother of his child. The case proceeded...
Penrith District Court – August 2015Our client was charged with grooming and indecent assault of a minor. He was a relatively naïve young man who had agreed to meet a reasonably mature 15-year old after chatting online. The pair engaged in sexual activities in a car...
