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Criminal Lawyer Sydney - Legal Information Resource
The following legal articles have been kindly provided by LAC Lawyers of Sydney to assist you in understanding NSW Criminal law.
LAC Lawyers offers a comprehensive range of
criminal law services to clients where they are charged with alleged
criminal offences. The areas dealt with are: Appeals, Apprehended Violence Orders,
Arrests, Assaults, Bail Applications, Break and Enters, Centrelink Offences, Committal Hearings,
Coronial Enquiries, District Court and Supreme Court
trials, Drink Driving, Drug Offences, Firearms Offences, Fraud, Inquests,
Interviews, Misuse of Data, Offences
against the Person (intimidation, manslaughter, murder, paedophilia, trespass),
Parole Applications, Penalties, Police Corruption/Misbehaviour,
Proceeds of Crime, Professional Misconduct, Property Offences
(Arson/Malicious Damage), Public Order offences, Search Warrants, Sentences,
Sexual Assault, Summary Trials, Taxation Offences, Theft, Stealing, Larceny, Traffic Matters, White Collar Crime
LAC Lawyers legal team comprises some former members of
the NSW Police Service with criminal investigation and internal
affairs experience with comprehensive, practical knowledge of the
Crimes Act and related legislation.
Criminal Law Information / Articles provided by LAC Criminal Lawyers
Arrests
Publish
Date: 30 November 2006
When the police are
investigating a criminal offence or a crime they go looking for
suspects and when they find them the investigation process requires
them to asks questions and to receive answers.
CentreLink
Offences
Publish Date: 30 November
2006
It is a criminal offence to receive a benefit from the
Department of Social Security, or Centrelink dishonestly. The
Social Security (Administration) Act 1999, prescribes specific
offences for persons who commit such offences.
District
Court and Supreme Court trials
Publish
Date: 30 November 2006
Court proceedings.
Assault and Sexual
Assault
Publish Date: 30 November
2006
Assualt, sexual assault and sexual abuse of children.
Proceeds of
Crime
Publish Date: 30 November
2006
The term "Proceeds of Crime" is generally understood to mean
the benefits received by persons from serious criminal
activity. Both the Commonwealth and the States have passed
laws dealing with "Proceeds of Crime", and other related
matters.
Stealing/Larceny
Publish
Date: 30 November 2006
The principles offences
against property in New South Wales include larceny, obtaining
benefit by deception, robbery and burglary.
Criminal Law - How
Serious Are AVOs
Publish Date: 12 October 2006
There is a strong desire on the part of the
legislature to reduce the incidence of, and provide protection to,
the victims of domestic violence. Apprehended violence orders
and bail are the main vehicles chosen to provide this
protection.
Slavery/Sexul Servitude
Publish Date: 1 August 2006
Slavery in Australia
has been a criminal offence since 1824
due to the application of the Slave Trade Act 1824. In 1999,
the Criminal Code Amendment (Slavery and Sexual Servitude)
Act 1999 was enacted. There have been a number of cases
involving sexual servitude in recent years under this
Act.
Criminal
Law - Drugs: Police Sniffer Dogs: Part 1
Publish Date: 21 March 2006
The dogs have been let loose
recently. Numerous people have been charged generally involving
small amounts of cannabis and MDMA (ecstasy) as a result of over
active Labradors at pubs, parties and big days out.
Criminal
Law - Drugs: Police Sniffer Dogs: Part 2
Publish
Date: 21 March 2006
On 22 February 2002, the NSW
Parliament enacted the Police Power (Drug Detection Dogs) Act (The Drug Dog Act).
The Drug Dog Act continues to allow police
to use drug dogs to search an individual once they have formed
a reasonable suspicion that an offence has been committed.
Criminal
Law - Drugs: The Pitfall of Pills: Part 1
Publish Date: 21 March 2006
Called; ecstasy, e, ecce, disco
biscuits or 3, 4 methyledioxymethylamphetamine (MDMA), MDMA is an
increasingly popular party drug. Putting aside any health issues
with drug use, one frequently overlooked consideration is that it is
illegal in New South Wales.
Criminal
Law - Drugs: Pills and Drug Weight: Part 2
Publish Date: 20 March
2006
What the law
calls admixtures count as the drug weight. for the purpose of State
drug offences, the law looks at the total mass of the drug and not
pure drug bulk.
Criminal
Law - Serious Traffic and Drink Driving Offences
Publish Date: 16 February 2006
There are a number of serious
traffic offences with one of the most serious being dangerous
driving. A person is guilty of this offence where the vehicle driven
by that person is involved in an impact occasioning death and at the
time was driving under the influence of intoxicating liquor or a
drug or at a speed dangerous or in a manner dangerous to another
person or persons carrying a penalty of up to 10 years gaol.
Sentence
and penalty options available to courts if convicted of a criminal
offence
Publish Date: 26 september
2005
Murder.
Bigamy. Robbery. Bushfires. Terrorism. Domestic violence. Computer
offences. Concealing the birth of a child. Fraud. Rape. The list of
criminal offences for which a person may be convicted in any
Australian jurisdiction is extensive.
The
Criminal Aftermath of Drink Driving: Penalties and Sentences
Publish Date: 22 September
2005
Drink
driving is an offence under the Road Transport (Safety &
Traffic Management) Act 1999 (NSW) (the “Act”). In New South
Wales there are effectively five categories of “prescribed
concentration of alcohol” (PCA) offences.
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