38-Year-Old Man Sentenced For a Common Assault Charge
By Sahar Adatia and Jimmy Singh. Tensions are rippling throughout the world as news of the coronavirus bubbles into our televisions and social media screens advising of the latest limitations and lockdowns. Undeniably, anxiety around the deadly virus and its threats to daily life have sharpened, leaving people fearful and reacting in all kinds ...continue reading
Two Men Wield Broken Wine Bottles Causing Actual Bodily Harm in Wine Aisle
By Sahar Adatia and Jimmy Singh. As the public prepares for self-isolation amid the coronavirus crisis, the bizarre wave of panic-buying continues to sweep supermarkets all over the world. Across many countries, fear of what’s to come has left customers flustered and stockpiling unnecessarily on everyday items, almost with a sense that the end ...continue reading
Elderly Man Tortured with Taser & Drill in Murray Bridge Aggravated Kidnapping Ordeal
By Sahar Adatia and Jimmy Singh. It is reported that an elderly man was bound, kidnapped and tortured with a taser and drill by two men in a gruesome incident at Murray Bridge in the south-east of South Australia. According to South Australia Police, in the early hours of 29 February 2020, the elderly ...continue reading
A Shopper Allegedly Pulls Out a Knife in Public Over Toilet Paper at Parramatta Westfields
It is reported that at about 1:30pm Wednesday last week, two shoppers allegedly fought over toilet paper at Woolworths in Westfields Parramatta. Police were contacted to attend to a ‘disturbance’. This resulted in six police officers attending the scene over an alleged fight for toilet paper as buyers continue ‘panic buy’, clearing shelves across ...continue reading
A 29-Year-Old Man Is Charged with Assault After Allegedly Causing Actual Bodily Harm on a Busker Dressed as a Pencil
By Sahar Adatia and Jimmy Singh. It was a dismal and distressing day at best for Californian busker, Matt Eberhart, who, dressed as a pencil, was hit in the head by a spectator with the very ukulele he was performing with. On 19 February 2020, Mr Eberhart stationed himself in Adelaide’s Rundle Mall to ...continue reading
A 23-year-old Man has been Charged with Attempted Kidnapping in NSW
It is reported that a 27-year-old woman in Sydney was followed and attacked by a man after walking out of a railway station on Thursday afternoon. On Thursday evening, at approximately quarter past six, a man allegedly followed a 27-year-old woman after she had left the Chester Hill Railway Station. It is alleged that, as ...continue reading
What are the Rules Around NSW Police Strip Searching a Person?
241,000 is the number that has been given to NSW Police Officers, representing the quota for conducting personal searches, including strip searches on people for the 2019 financial year. In fact, in 2019, NSW Police failed to meet its quota by just under 2000 searches. NSW Greens managed to obtained the shocking revelation through the ...continue reading
What is a Criminal Lawyers’ Role?
Criminal lawyers represent people from all walks of life. Unfortunately, movies and TV shows have portrayed criminal lawyers in a bad light, prompting members of the public asking the question criminal lawyers get asked too often, “but how can you defend a criminal?”, or “how can you defend a guilty person?”. Too often we ...continue reading
Law, Penalties and Defences for Having Custody of a Knife in Public in NSW
By Sahar Adatia and Jimmy Singh. Call it clucked up – last week, it was reported that a rooster carrying a razor blade killed a man after slashing him during a cockfight in India. On 17 January 2020, the victim, Saripalli Venkateswara Rao, was attending an animal death match in Pragadavaram village – an ...continue reading
Common Assault Laws, Penalties and Defences in NSW
It is reported that a New Zealand teacher has punched a school kid in the face after the child told him that he wore his moustache “like a paedophile would”. As the 13-year-old student watched the teacher playing a game of rugby at a college in 2018, the child allegedly made this comment as ...continue reading