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The question of whether priests should report crimes told during confessional has recently been considered in a comprehensive investigation by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. This investigation culminated…

The police have just knocked on your door and informed you that you have been charged with a criminal offence. What goes through your mind? Here are answers to some of the most…

Courts around the country are filled with horrendous crimes, stories of tragedy, broken lives, and disadvantaged people. The role of Courts in sentencing offenders is often misplaced. Courts do not administer justice they…

Go and hunt her And find her And kill her  Good fortune, Witch Hunters! …What a ridiculous notion, everyone knows it is dangerous to jump to conclusions like that. However, as a defence…

Knowing your legal rights when it comes to music festivals With increasing police presence at music festivals, it is no surprise that more and more Australians are being arrested and charged for minor…

I know, I know – it’s a cliché.  But it is a question that I am constantly asked as soon as I tell people that I am a criminal defence lawyer. There are…

Principal Ben Aulich shares his personal experience of Canberra’s corrective services officers following this week’s Four Corners Report. There is no doubt that the recent disturbing Four Corners Report into children being gassed,…

Picture a typical Australian Mother at home, receiving a phone call, out of the blue, from an Australian Federal Police officer about her 15 year old daughter: “I’m afraid she has been charged…

It is a scenario any one of us could face when we least expect it and a client’s most common question. Should I be answering police questions? Whether innocent or otherwise, police may…

A 19-year-old Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA) cadet charged with raping a female cadet in Canberra has pleaded not guilty. It is alleged Jack Toby Mitchell raped the 18-year-old woman while she was…