Criminal Lawyers Perth

APPEARING IN COURT AND REVISING CLIENT COSTS

Because of social distancing personal attendance in court for an accused and their legal representative is in issue. The Magistrate Courts seem to have left it to the legal profession to determine whether lawyers appear in court in person or by audio/...

Cardinal George Pell will be freed from Barwon Prison today after the High Court quashed his convictions and judgements of acquittal entered finding that: “a significant possibility that an innocent person has been convicted because the evidence did not establish guilt to the requisite standard o...

COVID-19 TRAVEL BAN
We have received a number of calls from people wanting to leave Perth to go to country areas but afraid they may be stopped by authorities. In one case the caller had been removed from the place of abode in a country town three weeks ago due to an interim (72 hour) VRO. The c...

If you are charged with a criminal offence do not see Covid-19 as a reason to not contact a lawyer for help. After helping clients living away from Perth we have developed long-standing telephone and email protocols to deal with clients and attend to the ongoing management of a criminal matter a...

Covid-19 has taken the World by storm. Overnight Victoria and South Australia declared a state of emergency and this morning so did Western Australia. In WA, Public Health Emergency powers are set out in the Emergency Management Act 2005 and Part 12 of the Health Act 2016. More particularly, un...

Harvey Weinstein was convicted by a jury of two counts and acquitted on the more serious charge involving predatory behaviour. As to be expected his trial lawyers have announced that they will mount an appeal in the hope that an appeal court will agree with the defence that the evidence upon whi...

A warning to anyone showing intimate pictures of someone else to another under WA laws. The “test” for what is considered as “intimate” and more importantly what is considered “distribution” including the circumstances of the alleged offending fails the imagination. The case of Detective Senior ...

Cannabis is now LEGAL in Canberra. Legislation took effect today allowing a person to grow up to 2 plants and possess up to 9 grams of cannabis. It pays to remember that this is the result of ACT legislative changes and not Commonwealth legislation. Therefore the changes allowing growing and pos...

Japan recently carried out the death penalty by hanging a Chinese national convicted of the murder of a local family in 2003. Japan currently has 100 prisoners on death row of which 13 members of the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult. It might seem rather bizarre that here we are approaching 2020 and c...