The use of Emojis in e-communications has been steadily growing since 1997. Emoji’s are fun playful inserts into text messages such as the 👍 & 😈 or 😝. However, emoji’s have found legal recognition. A Canadian court found that the thumbs-up emoji 👍 between two contracting parties amounted to a signature thereby, bringing the contract
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Recent cases
High Court Grants Leave for Cardinal George Pell to Appeal Conviction
As earlier predicted, the High Court of Australia this morning handed down their judgement granting leave for the lawyers for Cardinal George Pell to appeal his conviction. One area that the appeal may address is whether the trial judge directed the jury on the inferences they may draw from the evidence in favour of Cardinal
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Indecent Dealing in the School Yard Child on Child
Indecent dealing in the Perth school yard In this case, Sara (Not her real name) was 14 years old when she took a selfie of herself topless and sent that photo along with others (not revealing photos) to Peter (Not his real name) a 15 years old male at the same school. This all took
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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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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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Criminal Fraud in Western Australia
Facts – Criminal Fraud In this case, we acted for the purchaser of a commercial property valued in the region of $2.2m. The real estate agent made representations including the number of outgoings, that were substantially untrue. This is not the sort of matter usually taken on by criminal-lawyer-perth but it is was evident from
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Indecent Dealings With a Child – Acquittal after Trial
Facts Our client was charged with indecent dealings with a child over 13 years but under 16 years under section 321(4) Criminal Code. The accused was the child complainant’s step father. The child accused the step father of various touchings. The step father denied the allegations. The complainant’s mother argued with WA Police Sex Abuse
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Money Laundering In Western Australia
Monday Laundering Facts In this case a business owner and operator was tracked by Austrac making large sum cash deposits into three banks. The monies being deposited were business proceeds. AUSTRAC AUSTRAC (the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre) is Australia’s financial intelligence unit and its anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing regulator. It is this
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