Legal costs awarded for our client against DPP in sexual assault trial

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Our client in his mid 40’s was charged by NSW police with multiple counts of sexual intercourse without consent after a women he invited to his office to audition for a role as a model agreed to stay for drinks afterwards with our client.

As both were consuming alcohol, they were intoxicated. During this time, the woman alleged that our client made her have oral sex with him without consent amongst other non-consensual sexual activities that is too explicit to describe here.

Our client privately funded the case all the way up to and including the matter reaching the District court trial. During this time, he was on strict bail conditions that restricted his work and personal life. This impacted significantly on his ability to derive an income to feed his family. The prosecution including the DPP and Police had failed on many occasions to comply with their disclosure obligations to produce all the evidence that they intended to rely upon in the trial in a timely manner. This unfortunately caused significant delays in this case reaching trial as it contributed to it getting adjourned over and over again in the local court phase. This was through no fault of our client.

On the first day of trial it was listed on, the prosecution suddenly produced new evidence that they should have provided the defence much earlier. This caused the first listed trial to be vacated with a new trial listed. This caused significant expense to our client because it meant that he would now have to pay extra legal fees to have our defence team run his trial on the next listed hearing.

Accordingly, our CDLA team applied for and were granted costs in our client’s favour for the prosecution to pay. This was a much needed financial relief for our client and his family.

Published on 24/10/2025