More About Doogue & O'Brien
Recent Cases
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Historic Sex Case - Good behaviour bond
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Rape x 2, Indecent Assault x 6 - Charges Withdrawn
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Criminal Damage x 10 - Diversion
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Fail to report an accident - Fine and no loss of licence
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Recent Articles
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Sex Offender Registry - Failing to comply with reporting conditions
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Furnish False or misleading information (Sex Offender Registry)
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Assaulting or resisting Police
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Causing serious injury recklessly
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Bill Doogue
Bill Doogue
Bill Doogue
Barrister/Solicitor
Speciality
- Criminal Law
- White Collar Law
- Traffic law
Bill Doogue was first admitted to practise as a Barrister and Solicitor in 1989
He worked for 2 1/2 years as a criminal lawyer for the Aboriginal Legal Service in the Northern Territory.
Bill has also appeared on behalf of the firm’s clients in Courts in NSW and South Australia.
He has been an accredited criminal law specialist for over 10 years and a criminal lawyer for close to 20 years.
Bill oversees the major criminal trials that are being run out of the Melbourne Office.
Due to one of his cases involving alleged terrorism he received a
security clearance from the Australian Government to view classified
documents.
He has appeared in many jury trials as a Barrister, handled committals and pleas of guilty and not guilty.
| He often instructs other Barristers in trials. It is clear that this
gives him a great advantage in knowing what other Barristers will need
to win their cases and to be able to formulate an early strategy with
the client. There is no better basis for giving advice about how a jury
will react than having stood in front of them on a number of occasions
and having seen how they react. Currently Bill is the former Chairperson of the committee of management of the Broadmeadows Community Legal Centre. He has been on the committee for over ten years. Bill is also a committee member of the Law Institute of Victoria’scriminal law section. He is that section’s representative on the County Court Rules committee and also is the representative on the County Court sex list user group. The database Bill designed "Crimebase" a practice management /precedent base solution won the CCH Legal Technology Award and is currently used by a number of other specialist criminal law firms in Victoria. Bill designs and uses databases regularly in cases that have a high volume of documents. Bill is a very well known and well respected criminal lawyer and will help your case enormously with his practical and useful advice. |
Members of our team
Bill Doogue | Conor O'Brien | Cassie Collier | Josh Taaffe | Kristina Kothrakis | Paul McClure | Shaun Pascoe | Lidia Scafidi | Adam Chernok | Brent Casey | Louise Dempsey
