As a criminal lawyer spending time everyday in the criminal justice system in NSW, there is one subject that continues to both be raised in the media and raises the ire of public opinion and that is bail. How do some people get bail having been on bail at the time of allegedly committing serious […]

There are many things that frustrate my criminal law clients when they go to court to have a matter dealt with. The perceived lies told by opposing witnesses, the inconsistency of the judiciary when imposing penalties, the unfamiliar rules of evidence which may not allow them to fully tell their story, and dare I say […]

I sat in court the other day and listened to a gut wrenching, impassioned plea from a mother for her son. The raw emotion expressed by this woman moved everyone in the courtroom. This loving mother however was not pleading to the presiding magistrate to not send her son to gaol. This mother who’s love […]

I know that we live under what is described in law faculties across the nation as an adversarial legal justice system, but the descripton of the system does not need to be adopted literally by all of its participants. Generally, as a criminal defence lawyer, the police and the Office of the Director of Public […]

My mum was the youngest of a family of seven children all born during the pre World War II 20′s and 30′s living on the then outskirts of Sydney in the St George area. These children and their subsequent husbands and wives became adults in the 50′s and 60′s, a very different world to today. […]