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ADLA Conference 2015 Speaker – Paul Higham, Victorian Bar – Commissions,...
Written by Amelia Ramsay. Solicitor, Doogue O’Brien George Criminal Defence Lawyers. His areas of expertise include criminal defence, corporate corruption and compliance, inquests and enquiries,...
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ADLA Conference 2015 Speaker – Phil Dunn, QC Victorian Bar Briefing Counsel –...
Written by Kate Ballard. Solicitor, Doogue O’Brien George Criminal Defence Lawyers. As new advocates in criminal law, we junior solicitors learn so much of our craft by simply doing. Scary though […]
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Simplified Jury Directions
Written by Conor O’Brien, partner Doogue O’Brien George Solicitors. Conor is an Accredited Specialist. Earlier this month the Jury Directions Bill 2015 was introduced to Parliament and I, for one, […]
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The flaws in baseline sentencing
Written by Conor O’Brien, partner Doogue O’Brien George Solicitors. Conor is an Accredited Specialist. I read an interesting and, to me unexpected, article in the Herald Sun last week in […]
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Extradition to China
Written by Bill Doogue.Partner, Doogue O’Brien George Criminal Defence Lawyers. Recent reporting in the Age details the Chinese police’s pursuit of corruption suspects in Australia. Under the rubric...
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Support Reprieve Australia
Written by Susanna Locke. Solicitor, Doogue O’Brien George Criminal Defence Lawyers. Many Australians and members of the international legal community are still suffering from collective shock...
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People Can and Do Lead Productive Lives Despite the Setback of a Prison Sentence
Written by Shaun Pascoe. Partner, Doogue O’Brien George Criminal Defence Lawyers. As criminal defence lawyers, we all want our clients to avoid the prospect of imprisonment. Whether we run a not […]
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Baseline Offences – Adding up the Difference between Median and Baseline
Written by Bill Doogue.Partner, Doogue O’Brien George Criminal Defence Lawyers. There has been some struggle to get to the essence of what will happen with baseline offences, since the introduction of...
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Thank You for Not Smoking
Guest post written by Bernadette Liparota, content writer. In case you hadn’t heard, a smoking ban has been enforced across 13 Victorian prisons. I suppose the government thought they’d pop […]
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It’s a Sin To Kill a Mockingbird
Guest post written by Bernadette Liparota, blog writer. As the news was made public, early this year of an impending release of Harper Lee’s second (Sequel? Prequel? Draft?) ever novel, the […]
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Changes to Sex Offender Register Reporting Obligations
Written by Amelia Ramsay. Solicitor, Doogue O’Brien George Criminal Defence Lawyers. As of June 1st 2015, changes have been made to the Sex Offender Register reporting obligations. The reporting...
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School Kids and Child Pornography
Written by Bill Doogue. Partner, Doogue O’Brien George Criminal Defence Lawyers. We don’t like to think of the two hand in hand, however, a recent incident at my own child’s school […]
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“Consorting laws”– Where the Government legislates against our fundamental...
Written by Bill Doogue. Partner, Doogue O’Brien George Criminal Defence Lawyers. I am no longer easily astonished. Not in my line of work. But every now and again, I am dumbfounded […]
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Directors and the Impact of a Criminal Conviction
We are often presented with the question of what effect a criminal conviction will have on a Director of a Company and whether or not, once convicted, they can continue […]
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Why do people confess to things they did not do? The interesting case of the...
Written by Shaun Pascoe. Partner, Doogue O’Brien George Criminal Defence Lawyers. When it comes to confessions, from a legal point of view, the key issue is their truthfulness and the related […]
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Cross-examination at the Royal Commission into Institutional Abuse of Children
Written by Bill Doogue. Partner, Doogue O’Brien George Criminal Defence Lawyers. We have been appearing at a large number of the case studies involved in this Royal Commission. This Royal […]
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“No body, no parole”
Written by Bill Doogue. Partner, Doogue O’Brien George Criminal Defence Lawyers. Recently, a new proposal was put forward by the opposition Liberal party in relation to murder cases where bodies of […]
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CCOs Under Attack And More Nonsense About Criminals Walking Free
Written by Bill Doogue. Partner, Doogue O’Brien George Criminal Defence Lawyers. In “news” over the last 24 hours, the Herald Sun posted an article in which it is alleged that Victoria’s […]
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ASIC Examinations – Section 19 Examinations and Banning Orders
Written by Kristina Kothrakis. Accredited Criminal Law Specialist, Doogue O’Brien George Criminal Defence Lawyers. If you work in the financial services sector, there would be nothing more daunting...
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Mental Impairment and Unfitness to be Tried
Guest post by Simon Moglia Victorian Barrister. Simon practises primarily in the Criminal jurisdiction in the County and Supreme Courts and has particular experience in cases of mental impairment and...
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