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Dodgy Criminal Justice Policies – No Body No Parole
Dodgy Criminal Justice Policies Volume 1- No Body No Parole In this episode of Doogue O'Brien George Presents Dodgy Criminal Justice Policies, we look at the flawed, illogical and ill-conceived no...
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Presumption Against Bail
Written by Bill Doogue. Partner, Doogue O’Brien George Criminal Defence Lawyers. Increasingly, I am left shaking my head at law and order in Victoria. The similarity to the Trump presidency is...
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Applying to get removed from the sex offender registry for young people
Written by Bill Doogue. Partner, Doogue O’Brien George Criminal Defence Lawyers. Being on the sex offender registry is incredibly difficult and the requirements are onerous to comply with. At the same...
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An Interpol Red Notice is Not an International Arrest Warrant
Written by Andrew George. Partner, Doogue O’Brien George Criminal Defence Lawyers. At the recent International Bar Association Transnational Crime Conference in Lisbon that I attended there was an...
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Why the idea of publishing an Australian Sex Offender Registry is a bad one
Written by Bill Doogue. Partner, Doogue O’Brien George Criminal Defence Lawyers. Today I read an article on a News Limited media site about publishing a national sex offender registry. As defence...
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Historic Sexual Offences. Finding Truth Amid Faded Memories.
Written by by Josh Taaffe. Partner, in-house counsel & Accredited Specialist and Sophie Stafford, solicitor, Doogue O’Brien George defence lawyers. The last thing our client thought would happen...
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It’s Never Too Late to Say Sorry
Written by Bill Doogue. Partner, Doogue O’Brien George Criminal Defence Lawyers. As we know three Federal Government Ministers are awaiting a decision on a referral to face charges of contempt. The...
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International Extradition
Written by Andrew George. Partner, Doogue O’Brien George Criminal Defence Lawyers. International extradition is a legal process in which countries co-operate in the arrest of foreign nationals and...
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Gun Licenses and Intervention Orders
Written by Shaun Pascoe. Partner, Doogue O’Brien George Criminal Defence Lawyers. It is well known in our community that a breach of the law can directly and adversely affect certain privileges and...
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“Tough on Crime” is failing
Written by Andrew George. Director, Doogue + George Criminal Defence Lawyers. This afternoon I read a typically reflective and well argued opinion piece by Peter Nordon (Adjunct professor RMIT). He...
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Synthetic Drugs – The Goverment legislates a crackdown
Written by Bill Doogue. Partner, Doogue + George Defence Lawyers. Injecting rooms one month, harsher drug laws last month. Welcome to the roller-coaster of the war on drugs minus a strategy. Last...
View ArticleRoyal Commission into misconduct in the banking, superannuation and financial...
Written by Bill Doogue. Partner, Doogue + George Defence Lawyers. It is interesting to reflect now on how this Royal Commission will proceed and on what lessons can be learnt from the recent Royal...
View ArticleHistorical family violence prosecutions
Written by Doogue + George Defence Lawyers. The last few years have seen a sharpening focus on family violence in our courts and judicial system more broadly. It has come to be seen as an area...
View Article**Important announcement from Doogue + George regarding infringements matters**
Many people end up getting orders against them in relation to outstanding fines. Dee Giannopoulos attended Court this week and discovered some information everyone paying off a fine should know. This...
View Article‘Crime tax’ proposal: A populist move likely to cause more harm than good
Written by Andrew George. Partner, Doogue + George Defence Lawyers. Victorian Opposition Leader Matthew Guy has thrown his support behind a proposal to ‘tax’ (more accurately ‘fine’) offenders who...
View ArticleProtections for an employee giving evidence at a Royal Commission
Written by Bill Doogue, Partner, Doogue + George Defence Lawyers. It is interesting sometimes to look at media articles and wonder whether they are written in such a rush that the journalist never...
View ArticleFirearm prohibition order regime raises human rights concerns
Written by Shaun Pascoe, Partner, Doogue + George Defence Lawyers. New laws have been introduced to tackle gun related crimes in Victoria, but with these proposed changes, serious human rights concerns...
View ArticleA public sex offender register
Written by Bill Doogue. Partner, Doogue + George Defence Lawyers. Recently announced proposals for a publically accessible sex offender register are a perfect example of emotionally driven, rather than...
View ArticleDriving with a suspended/disqualified licence
Written by Andrew George, Partner, Doogue + George Defence Lawyers. There is a very good reason to engage a lawyer if you are charged with a driving with a suspended or disqualified licence: losing...
View ArticleAlcohol and consent to sex: What does the law say?
Written by Kristina Kothrakis, Partner, Doogue + George Defence Lawyers. The #MeToo movement has brought with it constructive conversations about sexual consent, many of which talk about the role of...
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