Professional Misconduct We are receiving a number of calls from registered professionals complaining about how they are being poorly treated by their registration authorities. For example we have received calls from teachers, police, nurses, radiologists, pharmacists, dentists and chiropractors complaining that they have received letters from their relevant registration authority advising them that they are
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Blogs
Police Arrest – What Happens
Police Arrest I receive quite a few calls during the week and over the weekend from police calling on behalf of people who have been arrested and are about to be questioned by the police. What happens is that the police will visit a person’s home or work, put a complaint to them and then
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Historical Sex Abuse Cases
Historical Sexual Abuse Radio 6PR Interview On the 7th July 2019, I was asked by the producer for Karl O’Callaghan the former Commissioner of Police to appear on his Sunday morning talk show to speak about Historical Sexual Abuse cases and the potential for miscarriages of justice. Here is what I had to say. Main
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Dangerous Driving Causing Death – Client Acquitted after Trial
Facts of the Dangerous Driving Incident In this case the accused was a young FIFO Trades Assistant driving a utility “Light Vehicle or LV” along a mine site gravel access road when he collided with a sedan approaching in the other direction. The occupants of the other vehicle were overseas tourists. The driver was killed
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Pell’s Unsuccessful Appeal Against Guilty Verdict
In the case of Cardinal George Pell, the Victorian Court of Appeal (VCA) comprising chief justice, Anne Ferguson president of the court of appeal, justice Chris Maxwell, and justice Mark Weinberg were unanimous in upholding Cardinal Pell’s conviction on counts 2 & 3 with justice Mark Weinberg dissenting on count 1 namely: “that the jury
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Search Warrants, House Searches and Arrest
Right to Silence – Say Nothing At this point, the police have arrived at your doorstep and suspect you of an offence and are about to commence their search. The search commences with you in tow showing the police officers around the house. You will be given your rights including your RIGHT TO SILENCE, which
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Revenge Porn – Legal Information For Western Australia
Revenge Porn – Criminal Offence – Distributing Intimate Images As of February 2019, it became illegal in Western Australia to distribute an image of a person engaged in a private act or an intimate image of that person without the consent of the person appearing in the image. The person giving the consent must be 16
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P-Plater Charged with Careless Driving and Found Not Guilty
An 18 year old P-Plater pleaded not guilty to careless driving. Criminal-Lawyer-Perth mounted a strong defence and after a one-day trial our client was acquitted of the charge and court costs paid by the State. The facts of the case were pretty straightforward. A young couple drove to a fast food restaurant in a northern
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Charges Discontinued, Sexual Penetration of a Child
An elderly man was charged by WA Police Child Sex Abuse Squad with multiple counts of sexually penetrating a child. The matter was listed for a 5-day trial in the WA District Court. The day before trial, the Director of Public Prosecutions discontinued all the charges. This man had endured some 18 months of extreme anxiety
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Common Assault Charges Discontinued After Successful Negotiations with Police Prosecutions
FACTS This was a case where a de-facto couple Mr X and Ms Y were walking on Roe Street in Northbridge late on a Saturday night. They had been celebrating Ms Y’s birthday at a restaurant earlier that evening. Both had been drinking alcohol but not to an extent to render them “drunk” in any
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