Tag: Drink Safe Precinct

24 Nov

Schoolies week legal issues can impact your future.

It is that time of year again when school leavers get the chance to celebrate their graduation at the annual ‘Schoolies’ festival. Although we are hopeful that it is a week of fun, laughter and celebration we understand that there may be some schoolies that face legal issues.  Some schoolies week legal issues can have a real and significant impact on your future. With a number of arrests already made over the first part of the week, we are here to provide advice on your rights and possible outcomes of common legal issues you may face. Common ‘on the spot …

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23 Mar

Life imprisonment for so called "Coward Punches"

The Government today outlined its new coward punch laws and other increased penalties under its draft ‘Safe Night Out Strategy.  In what seems to be a theme of the current government’s legislative platform, existing charges are to be replicated with newly created offences and penalties increased.  The government has adopted the big stick approach by increasing the maximum penalty for drunken behaviour in an effort to deter outrageous drunken violence.  The problem with this approach is that young, drunken, predominately men, are unlikely to consider the outcome of their actions whilst drunk and accordingly, unlikely to think about the massive penalties the …

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05 Sep

BANNING ORDERS – WHAT ARE THEY AND CAN I DEFEND THEM?

A banning order is a order that prohibits an offender, until a stated date, from doing or attempting to do any of the following: Entering or remaining in a stated licensed premises ; or a stated class of licensed premises; Entering or remaining in, during stated hours, a stated area that is a particular distance from the licensed premises; Attending or remaining at a stated event, to be held in a public place, at which liquor will be sold for consumption. Banning orders can prohibit entry to stated places. The Court has a wide discretion in relation to the terms …

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