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Parramatta Local Court – February 2016Our client was a young man charged with break, enter & steal and related offences concerning a home invasion committed in company with use of a firearm. His matter was referred to us on a grant from Legal Aid. We prepared a defended committal hearing, at which we were confident on having the main charge downgraded to an enter with intent offence, and two others dismissed for lack of evidence. The prosecution offered our client a deal which would keep the matter in the Local...
Downing Centre Local Court – January 2016Our client was a young man charged with attempted self-administration and possession of cocaine and assaulting police. Upon being questioned about being found with cocaine and about to inhale a line of the drug, he pushed past police and ran away, only to be identified days later. We negotiated with police to drop the self-administration charge, as it was essentially a ‘double-up’ with the possess charge, which was successful. At sentence, we explained our client’s...
Hornsby Local Court – February 2016Our client instructed us to defend an AVO brought by his wife from whom he had separated. We subjected her to a forceful cross-examination, which soon had her story falling apart. Under threat of pursuing our legal costs if successful, we persuaded the police prosecutor to withdraw the AVO after we had completed cross-examination of the complainant.
Campbelltown Local Court – December 2015Our client was a young man charged with rape following a complaint from an acquaintance. Confident of our chances at trial, and keen to keep our client’s costs down, we pushed the prosecution along and indicated that we were ready to have our client committed for trial in the District Court. Upon review by a Crown Prosecutor, the weaknesses in the prosecution’s case were made clear, and the prosecution withdrew the matter in the Local Court.
Sydney Supreme Court – March 2016Our client was charged with a number of serious sexual assault and intentional wounding and grievous bodily harm offences arising out of an allegedly abusive domestic relationship. With the trial matter pending in the Lismore District Court, we persuaded a Supreme Court judge to grant our client conditional bail, after we pointed to weaknesses in the prosecution and rebutted the prosecution’s hollow argument that our client posed a flight risk.
Manly Local Court – February 2016Our client was a 17-year-old who had only had his licence for a matter of months when he was charged with drive in a manner dangerous, speed over 30km/h and negligent driving as a back-up. We negotiated with the prosecution to slim down the charges, and the prosecution dropped the speed over 30km/h charge, which meant that our client avoided a mandatory 3-month licence disqualification on top of any other penalty the court imposed. We persuaded the magistrate to deal with our...
Windsor Local Court – January 2016Our client was charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm after he drunkenly struck a stranger at a holiday retreat, causing the other man to fall over and strike his head on a concrete boat ramp, requiring stitches in the back of his head. Despite the serious nature of the facts, we persuaded the magistrate to deal with the matter by way of good behaviour bond and fine only, given the fact that our client was significantly provoked and was hard-working family man with...
Downing Centre Local Court – April 2016Our client was a young tradesman from Newcastle charged with Possess Prohibited Drug after being caught with a capsule of MDMA in the Sydney CBD. He made full admissions to police, and at sentence, we were able to persuade the...
Downing Centre Local Court – April 2016Our client was a young British citizen on a working holiday who was caught with a bag of MDMA powder attending a DJ event in North Sydney. Despite the fact that he ran away from police and had to be detained with force (he was...
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...
