Category Archives: Criminal Offences

Drink Driving – the risks you run

Posted on December 23, 2011 by Matthew Oakley

Many people believe that once caught with a Drink Drive offence (or PCA) there is little to nothing that can be done to reduce or minimise the penalty. This is often not the case, even though there may be mandatory … Continue reading →

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Intensive Correction Orders – A Soft Option?

Posted on August 12, 2011 by Matthew Oakley

  Recently the NSW Government replaced Periodic Detention with Intensive Correction Orders (ICOs) as a sentencing option instead of full time gaol. An ICO is an order of imprisonment for not more than 2 years made by a court which … Continue reading →

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Dissociative State or Drunk

Posted on January 21, 2011 by Matthew Oakley

  In an interesting case the NSW District Court was required, in a trial  with a jury, to decide whether a driver drove a motor vehicle while suffering from automatism, that is to say was in a dissociated state and … Continue reading →

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