0410 689 843 Free Case Consultation
Call 0410 689 843 to Talk About Your Legal Problems Today.
Get Free Legal AdviceCall 0410 689 843 to Talk About Your Legal Problems Today.
Get Free Legal Advice
The standard non-parole period as per item number 12 of the table to Part 4, Division 1A of the Crimes (Sentencing Procedure) Act 1999 (NSW) is 5 years imprisonment. However, as per R v Way (2004) 60 NSWLR 168, whilst the standard non-parole period can be used as a reference point in conjunction with other […]
Read more
The amount of discount to be imposed for entering a plea of guilty is largely a discretionary aspect of the sentence: R v Thomson; R v Houlton [2000] NSWCCA 309 (17 August 2000). As an encouragement for offenders to plead guilty in relation to indictable offences in the Sydney metropolitan region, parliament introduced the Criminal […]
Read more
In R v Wong; R v Leung [1999] NSWCCA 420 the Court of Criminal Appeal promulgated a guideline sentences for importation offences. The guideline was to apply to couriers and persons low in the hierarchy of the importing organisation. Whist the setting of a guideline judgment was held to be beyond power of the Court […]
Read more
A person can be convicted of the crime of murder in a number of different ways as per the offence provision (set out below) namely, s18 of the Crimes Act 1900 (NSW) – ‘the Act’. A person can be convicted of murder through a joint criminal enterprise or through a ‘common purpose’ – which is […]
Read more
Self defence no longer relies upon the common law as it has been codified as per Division 3, Part 11A of the Crimes Act 1900 (NSW). A person carries out conduct in self-defence if and only if the person believes the conduct is necessary: (a) to defend himself or herself or another person, or (b) […]
Read morePage 11 of 11
