Parramatta Local Court – March 2016Our client was a middle-aged man charged with custody of a baseball bat, intimidation, assault police and intimidate police. On our advice, he pleaded guilty to the baseball bat and assault police offences, and not guilty to the two...
Manly Local Court – March 2016Our client was a young woman with a seriously long criminal history for offences stemming from her longstanding drug habit. She was sentenced on the basis of 6 different sets of criminal matters, those primarily being property offences in...
Downing Centre Local Court – July 2015Our client was a young man with an interest in surfing who instructed us to enter a plea in mitigation for the offence of ‘Drive Whilst Suspended’. Though absent from court and unable to be contacted because he was catching a massive break in the Northern Beaches, our Principal solicitor was able to persuade the magistrate to make an order under section 10, which means he was not convicted and no longer off the road. If only more matters could be successfully resolved while...
Sydney District Court – June 2015Our client instructed us to enter a plea of guilty to an animal cruelty charge. We appeared for her sentencing in the Local Court, but unfortunately the Chief Magistrate could not be persuaded to deal with the matter without conviction. Determined to maintain a clean record, the client instructed us to appeal the severity of her sentence to the District Court. When we appeared, the judge did not take long to be persuaded, and ordered that the matter be dismissed with under section...