Date: 14 Nov 2017, Filed under: Apprehended Violence Orders, Criminal Law
Recently the Sentencing Advisory Council (SAC) has advised the judiciary to take a tougher approach in respect of family violence, especially with breaches...
Date: 10 May 2017, Filed under: Apprehended Violence Orders, Criminal Law
In 2015, New South Wales introduced the Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme, the first domestic violence register to be piloted in Australia. The scheme...
Date: 14 Jun 2016, Filed under: Apprehended Violence Orders, Criminal Law
Research from the 2012 ABS Personal Safety Survey and Australian Institute of Criminology found that between one in three and one in four men are victims...
Date: 12 Nov 2015, Filed under: Indecent and Sexual Assault, Apprehended Violence Orders, Criminal Law
Family, Domestic and Sexual Violence can and often are inter-related. If you have been or have reason to believe that you may be charged with assault,...
Date: 24 Sep 2014, Filed under: Court Appearances, Apprehended Violence Orders
Recent amendments to the Family Violence Protection Act have created three new offences in relation to breaches of family violence intervention orders...
Date: 10 Sep 2014, Filed under: Apprehended Violence Orders
The laws in Victoria in relation to domestic violence are unforgiving, and this case presented as one of the most challenging intervention order breaches...
Date: 05 Sep 2014, Filed under: Apprehended Violence Orders, Victim Support, Criminal Law Matters
In the case Singh v R, a husband had brutally attacked his wife, slitting her throat with a box cutter.
Date: 29 Jul 2014, Filed under: Assault & Battery, Apprehended Violence Orders, Victim Support, Witnesses and Victims
Intervention orders are all Court orders which essentially have the same effect – to preclude one person from engaging in certain activities towards another...
Date: 24 Jul 2014, Filed under: Anti-Social Laws, Murder, Sexual Offences, Drug Offences, Assault & Battery, Apprehended Violence Orders, Drink Driving, Drug Driving, Criminal Law Matters, Criminal Law
Unlike the USA, there is no right to free legal representation in Australia.
We must either pay a lawyer to represent us, qualify for assistance such...
Date: 17 Jun 2014, Filed under: Bail Applications, Court Appearances, Resisting Arrest, Anti-Social Laws, Indecent and Sexual Assault, Murder, Sexual Offences, Drug Offences, Human Trafficking, Weapons, Assault & Battery, Robbery & Theft, Arson, Apprehended Violence Orders, Drink Driving, Speeding, Licence Appeals, Drug Driving, Traffic Matters, Victim Support, Witnesses and Victims, Drink Driving, Drug Driving, Speeding, Criminal Law Matters, Fraud, Traffic Matters, Forgery, Terrorist Activities, Criminal Law
Sydney Criminal Lawyers is one of the leading criminal law firms and practise criminal and driving cases exclusively. Specialising in criminal law means...