Case Studies

Reckless Driving Charge Downgraded To Avoid Mandatory Imprisonment Our client was charged with Reckless Driving with a circumstance of aggravation (to evade police), which carried a mandatory term of immediate imprisonment. This meant that the Magistrate would have...

Breach Of VRO Charge Discontinued Our client was charged with Breach of Family Violence Restraining Order. Our client was retrieving personal property from the marital home, and was waiting in a vehicle on the verge of his neighbour’s house. He breached the...

Act or Omission causing Bodily Harm or Danger charge downgraded to make the charge less serious Our client was charged with an act or omission causing bodily harm or danger. He was alleged to have committed the act with intention to harm. We sent a plea offer to the...

Aggravated Common Assault charge sentenced to a Conditional Release Order and granted Spent Conviction Our client was charged with assaulting her child. Due to the circumstances, it was submitted to the court that this offence was not very serious, and she should not...

Burglary Charge discontinued avoiding mandatory imprisonment and Grievous Bodily Harm charge avoids jail Our client was originally charged with burglary and grievous bodily harm. This hazardous combination of charges would have meant that our client would have to...

Our client was charged with grievous bodily harm. Our client agreed that he assaulted the person, but said that it was in self-defence of another. We sent the prosecution a submission setting out our client’s defence of self-defence. The prosecution discontinued the...